Montgomery County Public Schools have remained entirely virtual since the start of the school year. So what happens if it snows?
Fox 5 reported the following for Montgomery County:
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Taylor Momsen is well known for her role as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl, but did you know she grew up in Potomac? Momsen attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Bethesda for elementary school and then Hoover Middle School.
She was cast in her first national commercial as a four year old and later her first major motion picture– The Prophet’s Game with Dennis Hopper. In 2002, she played Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Alexandra, the President’s daughter, in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams. After a three year stall, she landed the lead in a WB series titled Misconceptions that never made it to the air.
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Medstar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney Nearing Capacity
UPDATED to include Medstar’s dispute of the HHS data.
Civil War History in Poolesville
The Town of Poolesville is filled with all kinds of interesting history from the Civil War.
Santa to Ride Motorcycle Through MoCo on December 9th
On Wednesday, December 9th starting at 3PM in Germantown, Santa Claus will be riding through Montgomery County on a Harley Davidson to raise funds for the Children’s Inn at NIH.
Chef David Chang, Recent Winner of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Has MoCo Ties
You might have heard the news that celebrity chef David Chang won the million dollar prize on Who Wants to be a Millionaire’s most recent episode this past Sunday night. Did you know that he went to high school in MoCo?
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Last November, the Netflix show “The Crown” reached Netflix’s top 10 most watched shows. The hit drama follows Queen Elizabeth II’s long reign of Great Britain. Unfortunately, the show didn’t cover the Queen’s tour to the United States and Canada in 1957. On October 19, she and the Duke of Edinburgh cheered among 45,000 other fans at a University of Maryland (UMD) football game.
The Maryland Terrapins were playing against the North Carolina Tar Heels. While watching her first game of American football, the Queen stood next to Maryland governor Theodore McKeldin (to the right in the photo) and University of Maryland president Wilson Homer “Bull” Elkins (to the left in the photo).
MoCo Certifies 2020 Election
The 2020 Presidential election has been certified by Montgomery County Board of Elections President James Shalleck, Board Vice President Nahid Khozeimeh & Board Secretary David A. Naimon.
Investigation Discovery Episode about Missing MoCo Sisters Aired this Weekend
This past weekend, Investigation Discovery aired an episode sharing the story of the the Lyon sisters. The two sisters, Sheila (12) and Katherine (10) disappeared in 1975 during a trip to Wheaton Mall. The girls were never found.
Source of the Spring reports that Xtra Ordinaire Apparel has opened their newest retail store at 937 Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring, the former location of New York & Company. The brand has two other locations in Arlington, VA and Atlanta, GA.
Right now on their website they are offering 15% off of all items $20 or more.
Gibran Hamdan, the First Person of Pakistani Descent to Play in the NFL, Attended Churchill High School
Gibran Hamdan was drafted by the Washington Football Team in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft, making him the first person of Pakistani descent to play in the league (his mother is Pakistani and his father is Palestinian).