National

Starbucks has announced that starting November 7, customers in U.S. and Canada company-owned and operated stores will no longer pay extra for customizing their beverage with non-dairy milk – including soymilk, oatmilk, almondmilk and coconutmilk.

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Gaithersburg

Sheetz will honor veterans and active-duty military on Veterans Day with a free meal, beverage, and car wash at participating locations (Note: Montgomery County’s only Sheetz at 751 Progress Way in Gaithersburg does not have a carwash facility.)

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Maryland

Attorney General Anthony Brown issued a cease and desist letter to the Center for Voter Information/Voter Participation Center, ordering it to stop sending Maryland voters intimidating letters threatening to reveal their voting status to neighbors, which violates Maryland and federal laws.

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Rockville

Rockville now offers three free 24/7 food scrap drop-off sites, including the newest at Twinbrook Community Recreation Center, to support easy composting and reduce landfill waste, with weekly pickups sent to a Prince George’s County composting facility. (more…)


MoCoSnow

For over 200 years, the Farmers’ Almanac has been predicting long-range weather forecasts using what they refer to as “a tried-and-true formula that adapts to the mysteries of nature and the ever-changing world in which we live.” So far this fall, we’ve shared summaries of the Old Farmer’s Almanac outlook and FOX 5’s winter outlook. There are actually two competing almanacs: the Farmers’ Almanac and the Old Farmer’s Almanac and both have been published for more than 200 years. Below we take a look at the Farmers’ Almanac outlook for this upcoming winter.

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Education

Niche has released its “2025 Best Public Elementary Schools” rankings based on “rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents using data from the U.S. Department of Education. Ranking factors include state test scores, student-teacher ratio, student diversity, teacher quality, grade school ratings, and the overall quality of the school district.” The top 25 public elementary schools in the state of Maryland, according to their list, can be seen below:

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