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Metro has its second annual personalized ridership report. This year it’s called Metro Rewind! It builds off the of last year’s “Your Metro Report,” which nearly 100,000 customers used to learn about their ridership activity from 2023. It was the first report of its kind in the public transit industry.

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Events

Community members invited to provide testimony about draft master plan focused on a three-mile stretch of University Boulevard/MD 193 between Wheaton and the Capital Beltway

The Montgomery County Planning Board scheduled a public hearing for the University Boulevard Corridor (UBC) Plan on Thursday, February 27 at 6 p.m. The public hearing will take place in the Second Floor Auditorium at M-NCPPC’s Wheaton Headquarters (2425 Reedie Drive, Wheaton, MD 20902) and it will be livestreamed on the Planning Board’s website. The public hearing was set after the Montgomery County Planning Department presented its first draft of the plan – the Working Draft – to the Planning Board today.


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The National Weather Service (NWS) has shared that “Confidence is increasing for the potential of accumulating snow Sunday across the area. If this threat materializes, it may cause travel disruptions.This forecast will evolve over the next couple of days, so monitor”

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Crime

Ramone Ramsay, 32, was convicted in Montgomery County Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related charges for a July 2023 shooting in Silver Spring that killed 21-year-old Kymani Bailey and injured two others. Ramsay, who was previously released early from a 2015 prison sentence, faces life without parole at his sentencing on April 28, 2025. (more…)


Education

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) recently shared that five students have been recognized as part of the 300 scholars selected for the esteemed 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), one of the country’s most challenging science and engineering competitions.

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