Over 100 members volunteer their nights and weekends to emergency response in the Wheaton area, from fighting fires and assisting births, to cutting up cars and administering CPR. With over 11,000 calls annually, the Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad is considered to be one of the busiest in Montgomery County. And it's all volunteer.
Church leaders, community members and descendants of those once buried at Mt. Zion cemetery on Wednesday will test their belief that not all remains were relocated when the site was developed.
Z&Z Manoushe Bakery will serve the sandwich on Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The owners’ father, grandfather and uncle served the sub in shops around Montgomery County from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
The long-running quiz bowl show has sparked generations of brainiac competitors across the region. Whitman’s Class of 1970 challenged this year’s team and a trio of staffers to a game Thursday afternoon.
When neighbors on Farragut Avenue heard of the two Black churches moving into the lot behind their backyards, they pointed to the two churches on their street and the Maryland law stating that a dispensary could not be within 500 feet of a worship site. The county inspected the churches and found they were not properly permitted, issuing them a notice of violation — and a stop-work order for the dispensary for having violated state law. Both churches have left, and on Thursday the county lifted the dispensary’s stop-work order.
Montgomery County will honor Royce Hanson, “the father” of the agricultural reserve, on Saturday by officially opening his namesake park in Poolesville.
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent a letter to Trump Thursday questioning the legality of the demolition of the White House’s East Wing. Raskin said the teardown — to make room for a ballroom — violates federal law.
The jury in the first-degree murder case of Jorge Rueda Landeros, who is accused of killing Sue Marcum in 2010, is deliberating his fate. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.