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Here are five things to know for Friday, June 29, in Montgomery County: 1. Supporting Cancer Research: An evening of wine tasting will help support Because of Daniel, which funds research into osteosarcoma, a kind of bone cancer. The event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. at the King Farm Village Green. Facebook has […]

As part of Montgomery Community Media’s live primary election coverage Tuesday night, Councilmember Nancy Floreen stopped by to talk about the races and other issues facing the county. One of her points was that she had “three colleagues who could carpool easily.” Here’s the video:

Rockville has become the latest jurisdiction to sue opioid manufacturers and distributors filing action in federal court in Baltimore on Monday. “I think it’s a wakeup call to the manufacturers and the distributors,” Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton said Tuesday. “This is how the stop smoking ban started. People woke up one day and said, ‘Look […]

Montgomery Police met with the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office on Monday, and chose not to release the body-camera footage from the officer who shot and killed Robert Lawrence White on June 11, according to a police statement. White, who was unarmed, was killed by Officer Anand Badgujar after the two had a confrontation on […]

Nearly 19,000 registered Maryland voters need to vote using a provisional ballot Tuesday because of a computer glitch at the Motor Vehicles Administration. How many are Montgomery County voters isn’t known, said Marjorie Roher, spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Board of Elections. Montgomery has about 17 percent of voting population in Maryland. The glitch — […]

Here are five things to know for Monday, June 25, in Montgomery County: 1. School Board: The Montgomery County Board of Education meets starting at 6 p.m. at the Carver Educational Services Center, 850 Hungerford Drive in Rockville. The agenda can be found here. 2. Election Day: Tomorrow is the big day for dozens of candidates as […]

Montgomery County’s early voting data could be a case of a glass half full or half empty. On the half full side, early voting increased about 91 percent from the 2014 primary, according to Maryland State Board of Elections data. On the half empty side, early voting increased from just less than 3 percent of […]

Council President Hans Riemer on Wednesday posted on Facebook that his colleague, Marc Elrich, is “backwards looking” on development. “Time after time, I found myself … sparring with him over the need to make living here more affordable and attract more jobs to the county,” Riemer wrote. Elrich is one of six Democrats running in […]

Gov. Larry Hogan told reporters that pulling National Guard troops from the border with Mexico “was the right thing to do.” Here’s his meeting with reporters Thursday: Previous post: Hogan Says He Will Not Deploy National Guard Resources to the Border  

Marriott International broke ground Thursday for its new $600 million downtown Bethesda headquarters, a project for a company that started more than 90 years ago as a root beer stand. “My parents would never have believed that the root beer stand could turn into something like this,” said J.W. Marriott Jr., executive chairman and chairman […]