Fairland

A Powerball ticket sold at the Columbia Road Exxon in Fairland won $50,000 after matching four of the five white balls plus the Powerball in the December 8 drawing. The jackpot continues to grow, now reaching an estimated $930 million for the December 10 drawing. Full details below courtesy MD Lottery: (more…)


Olney

MedStar Montgomery Medical Center is now among the first hospitals in Maryland to perform total knee replacement procedures using the Persona IQ “smart knee,” an advanced implant equipped with a secure motion-tracking sensor designed to help patients and doctors better understand recovery during the first year after surgery.

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Beyond MoCo

With venues hiking their prices significantly during New Year’s, putting a strain on people’s wallets that have already been hit hard by inflation, the personal-finance company WalletHub today released its report on 2025’s Best Cities for New Year’s, with Washington D.C. coming in ranked 8th overall in the country.

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Event

Beautiful venue; great art, gifts and hand-crafted items; refreshments; and meet the award-winning painters, photographers, mixed media artists, ceramicists, fiber artists, and more – some 40 artists in all. It’s an extraordinary array of framed wall works, 3-d media including sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and fiber pieces, and unframed prints.

Among them, you’ll see:


MCPS

Richard Montgomery High School, founded in 1892, continues to embrace its role as Montgomery County’s oldest public high school while looking ahead to its future. The Rockville school shared a published historical overview a couple years back, tracing its evolution from a modest addition to an elementary school into one of the county’s most recognized academic institutions.

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Arts

Damascus native Mindy M. Miller is continuing her rise on the national stage as she competes to secure a spot in the finals of Season 28 of NBC’s The Voice. Miller, who earned her place on Team Snoop, is now relying on viewer votes to advance, with voting open until Tuesday morning at 7 a.m.

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DMV

A series of fast-moving disturbances could bring multiple rounds of rain and snow to the region over the next several days, according to FOX5 meteorologist Mike Thomas, who outlined three separate systems worth watching between Wednesday and Sunday (the last one is the one to watch for snow lovers).

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Beyond MoCo

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights announced a settlement with Cracker Barrel resolving allegations that students with disabilities from Dr. James Craik Elementary School were discriminated against during a 2024 visit to the company’s Waldorf, MD restaurant. (more…)