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The Bethesda Chevy Chase High School Chamber Choir will be a part of Gov. Larry Hogan’s inauguration on Jan. 16. The choir will perform during pre-inaugural entertainment starting at 9:30 a.m. on the Northwest Lawn Stage at the State House in Annapolis. The school’s music department has earned two Grammy Foundation awards and is home to […]

Julie Palakovich Carr is giving up her seat on the Rockville City Council to take a position in the Maryland House of Delegates. About 60 Rockville residents attended a reception in her honor Monday night. We caught up with Palakovich Carr, and asked her about her highlights serving in City Hall:

BB&T will be closing its downtown Rockville branch on April 12, a company spokesman said. “More and more, our clients are choosing to conduct their banking business digitally both here at BB&T and in the financial industry as a whole,” wrote David R. White in an email. White is BB&T’s vice president for corporate communications. […]

It’s Monday, Jan. 7, and here are five things you need to know: 1. Orthodox Christmas: For Orthodox Christians, today is Christmas. 2. Municipal Monday: Gaithersburg, Rockville and Poolesville all have meetings of their town leaders. Here’s the Gaithersburg agenda. Here’s the Rockville agenda. And here’s Poolesville’s. 3. A Fond Farewell: Julie Palakovich Carr is leaving the Rockville […]

The federal government shutdown — which President Trump said Friday could last months or years, according to a report from Axios — is hitting many Marylanders in their pocketbooks. Based on Comptroller’s Office estimates, federal employees who live in Maryland are losing between $75 million to $100 million per week. That’s based on data that […]

A Silver Spring man received 45 years from a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge for the murder of his girlfriend. Anthony Strong, 51, pleaded guilty to the Nov. 7, 2017, first-degree murder of Chaunya Michalyn Blackwell, 43. Strong and Blackwell had been dating for three years and shared a home on Bradbury Manor Court in […]

A Wider Circle grew out of a class Mark Bergel taught at American University 17 years ago. Now its mission is to end poverty, not just in Silver Spring, or in Montgomery County, but everywhere. “I would be a sad and frustrated individual if 20 years from now we have not changed this country’s inner […]

In this edition of Montgomery Talk, Del. Marc Korman talks about the upcoming General Assembly, including the state budget, education funding and transportation topics. Korman is the chairman of the Montgomery County House Delegation. Senior News Editor Doug Tallman hosts.

It’s Thursday, Dec. 20, and here are five things you need to know: 1. Let Your Voice Be Heard: County Executive Marc Elrich will host another of his listening sessions from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Einstein High School, 11135 Newport Mill Road, Kensington. 2. Welcome Back: The once-closed Dawson’s Market is having a […]

Federal researchers reported Monday that America’s teens recorded a dramatic increase in the use of vaping devices over the last year. The 2018 Monitoring the Future survey says 37.3 percent of 12th-graders used a vaping device in the past 12 months, compared with 27.8 percent in 2017. The survey goes to a representative sample of […]