July 27, 2025 by: Justin Linn Montgomery County’s ban on gas-powered leaf blowers officially went into effect July 1. The ban on gas-powered leaf blowers is aiming to reduce noise pollution and improve air quality. While county officials highlight the environmental and health benefits, some residents are pushing back, arguingContinue Reading
January 6, 2025 With the snowy weather, it’s a good time to remind everyone that you can use the county and state traffic cameras to check out roads in different areas before you go out on them. Hint: Going to the Maryland Live Cameras and then filtering for “Wash DC”Continue Reading
August 15, 2024 – By Sophia Campbell Montgomery County was a hotspot for athletic talent in this year’s Paris Summer Olympics. Between July 26 and August 11, several local athletes competed on the world stage and brought home a staggering sum of medals across a variety of events. From legendaryContinue Reading
Here are a few charts that show vaccination data for the state of Maryland. The first graph shows the percent of the population that has been vaccinated by 1/02/2021. It shows that the National Capital Region (which includes MOCO is lagging significantly behind the rest of the state. Note thatContinue Reading
Here is the link to the full new order: https://montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/Resources/Files/health-officer-directive-AM-201124.pdf Link to updates guidance from county: https://t.co/LbAV4QG2xX New amended masking order 11/24/2020: Advertisement Wording on previous order on 11/23/2020: Previous Wording before both of these:Continue Reading
Nick Asante (MCPS BOE SMOB) on Instagram (@nickasante_) released some updates on the current status of the construction planned for Poolesville High school and Neelesville Middle School. This is not all that is going on with the CIP (capital improvements program) under review and being amended. He says that byContinue Reading
See the bottom for links to new dashboard, old dashboard, and the announcement of new dashboard metrics. This is the main frame from the new dashboard As you can see above, the main concerns are “new confirmed cases per 100k” and “Covid hospital bed utilization.” Let’s look at them inContinue Reading