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Grady Rippeon, 5, of Mount Airy helps his dad put down sod Saturday near the parking lot at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair grounds. The fair starts Friday.
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hoose the thrill of the Tilt-a-Whirl, enjoy the beauty of a ripe red tomato or watch the miracle of a calf being born. Those are just a few of the many activities, exhibits and experiences that make up the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, which opens its 65th annual run at 3 p.m. Friday. The fair, which is open from 10 a.m. to midnight through Aug. 17, offers something for everyone and a lot for most, said Martin Svrcek, executive director. “We are rated internationally as one of the top fairs in the country,” Svrcek said. “It’s clean, well organized and diverse, with foods and attractions for kids of all ages.” The whole operation — which expects to host 200,000 visitors, depending on the weather — is organized and run with fewer than a dozen full-time employees because of the dedication of about 1,000 volunteers, Svrcek said. “Our volunteer cohort is huge,” he said. “During the fair, a thousand people will log volunteer hours.”
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(From left) Gregory Frazier, facilities work leader for the Montgomery County Agricultural Center, and volunteers Daniel Herrera and Minh Le, both of Germantown, roll a 500-pound wheel of cheese into cool storage at the Montgomery County Fairgounds.
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Readers of The Gazette can expect to continue hearing the familiar thump of the weekly newspaper hitting their driveways after the planned sale of parts of the Washington Post Co. to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos. “This is exciting news. We won’t see any immediate change,” said Ann McDaniel, a senior vice president at the Washington Post Co. who started her career as a journalist. “There’s always a future for compelling, accurate journalism at the community level.” The sale, announced Monday and expected to be completed in 60 days, ends the Graham family’s four-generation ownership of the flagship Post newspaper. In addition to The Gazette and the Post, the $250 million deal includes the Express newspaper; Southern Maryland Newspapers; the Fairfax County Times in Northern Virginia; the Spanish-language El Tiempo Latino newspaper; the Robinson Terminal Warehouse and the Post’s adjoining printing plant in Springfield, Va.; the Comprint printing plant in Laurel; and several military-base publications. Bezos, whose tech-savvy business sense made him one of the world’s richest men — he has a reported net worth of $25 billion —
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New TV show follows Gaithersburg’s Bridget Edell as she takes on projects step by step.
College recruiters spend more time on teams than they do high school.
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‘LIP GLOSS AND A SANDER’
Does the proposed mixed-use Premium Outlet development plan conform to the Clarksburg Master Plan? That is the question, and it’s a big one that a county hearing examiner and, ultimately, the County Council will need to answer. Three developers want to invest more than $100 million to build a complex of Premium fashion outlets, retail stores, restaurants and housing on 85 acres at the southwest corner of Interstate 270 and Md. 121, or Clarksburg Road, in the Cabin Branch development. The developers — Streetscape Partners, Simon Properties and New England Development — won the county Planning Board’s backing on July 18 to amend their development plan to increase the amount of retail space from 120,000 square feet to 484,000 square feet to accommodate construction of the stores. Their request comes after the property’s
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