MoCo Council Approves Legislation Banning Balloon Releases
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Jeff Halpern, the assistant coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team, is from Potomac.
Halpern grew up in Potomac and played travel hockey in the area. He attended Winston Churchill High School before attending St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire.
MCPS Provides Employees with 45 Day Notice for Possible Return to In-Person, In-Building Instruction
In a letter sent by MCPS Superintendent Jack Smith to employees, the school system has provided the previously agreed upon 45 days notice for a possible return to in-person, in-building instruction.
September 30th is Census Response Deadline – How Does MoCo Rank in Response Rate?
September 30th, 2020 is the final day that households can respond to the 2020 Census. The Census is a count of the population by the federal government that takes place every ten years. All residents in the United States are counted, including those who are not U.S. citizens.
Montgomery Parks announced the cancelation of Garden of Lights, the annual outdoor light display and garden railway exhibit at Brookside Gardens.
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Nestled in the center of Aspen Hill, Md lies the Aspin Hill Memorial Park, the final resting place of more than 53,000 pets and people. Far from a Steven King novel, Aspin Hill Memorial Park is a place that honors the love between people and their pets. It’s owned by the Montgomery County Humane Society and is open to the public year-around.
Founded in 1921, the memorial’s name comes from a dog-kennel in England–this spelling of “Aspin” is not a typo! Aspin Hill Pet Memorial is thought to be the second-oldest pet cemetery in the United States. Typical pets such as dogs and cats are buried there, but animals like horses and monkeys can also be found.
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Did you know Kimmy Gatewood is from Silver Spring and graduated from Paint Branch High School?
The MoCo native stars in GLOW as Stacey Beswick and portrayed Coach Crowley in Atypical, both successful series on Netflix. You may even remember her as Hillary Clinton or Marilyn Monroe from the “Epic Rap Battles of History” video series.
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MoCo Announces 50 Ballot Drop Off Locations for 2020 General Election
Montgomery County officials are looking to think inside the box for the upcoming election. Holding elections during a pandemic was always going to be a tricky undertaking, and many citizens relied on Maryland’s mail-in voting program to cast their votes in the June primary elections. Official ballot drop-boxes are a convenient method for MD voters to cast their ballot without having to put it in the mail.
Pete Sampras has won 14 Grand Slam singles titles during his career, which was an Open Era record at the time of his retirement. He spent 263 total weeks ranked as the best tennis player in the world (3rd most all-time).
He spent the first seven years of his life in Potomac before his family moved west to California.
MoCo Sample Ballots On the Way
The Montgomery County Board of Elections has stated that the Montgomery County Sample Ballots for the upcoming 2020 general election will be arriving to registered voters’ mailboxes this week.
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“Flower Girl” in Anti-War Photograph Went to Montgomery College
French photojournalist Marc Riboud was renowned for his work on capturing the Vietnam War. Riboud’s photograph The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet, caught international attention and remains an iconic, impactful depiction of the Vietnam War protests.