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Good Counsel’s Brady Welch won the Feb 8 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming Championship for the Boys 100-yard Freestyle at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center. Welch set a new record for the competition with a time of 45.00 seconds. Related:

Sidwell Friends swimmer Gavin Springer won the 200-yard freestyle on Feb. 8 at the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming Championship, held at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center.  Springer swam the event in 1:38.29 minutes, setting a new Metros record. Related:

Georgetown Prep’s Carsten Vissering won the 100-yard breaststroke Feb. 8 at the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming Championship. Vissering set a new Metros record with a time of 53.49 seconds. Related:

In this MyMCMedia extra, Sonya Burke talks to Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky, a Stone Ridge student, about what it was like to compete in the high school swimming championships at Metros this past weekend; what’s next for her training schedule; and, is she watching the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi? Take a look: Below […]

Lorna Virgili hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week:

CSX announced the Railroad Street train crossing in Washington Grove will be closed starting Feb. 7 for emergency repairs to the track bed. The crossing is expected to be closed for about two weeks. Drivers are advised to use Midcounty Highway as an alternate route. The East Deer Park Bridge, located north of the crossing, […]

Stone Ridge’s Katie Ledecky broke the American record in the 500 free tonight (Feb. 7) during prelims at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center, which is the setting this weekend for the 2014 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships. Ledecky’s record setting time: 4:28:71. In this cell phone video you can watch Ledecky (center lane, […]

Miss Nelson is Missing continues its run at Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo Park. Written by nationally-renowned, local playwright, Joan Cushing, Jessica Lauren Ball, stars as Miss Nelson, the good-natured and long-suffering teacher of the disobedient Room 207, who is suddenly replaced by the petrifying substitute, Miss Viola Swamp. This production runs through March 9. […]

Detectives from the Collision Reconstruction Unit are investigating a fatal collision that occurred in White Oak last night. On Thursday, February 7, at approximately 10:30 p.m., Montgomery County police officers responded to Route 29 and Oak Leaf Drive for a pedestrian struck. Arriving officers found a male subject, deceased in the southbound lanes of Route […]