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tiple stream crossings and pumping stations shown in preliminary maps. “[We need] to avoid sewer lines in Ten Mile Creek,” said Diane Cameron, speaking for the Audubon Naturalist Society at a public hearing before the County Council on Jan. 20. However, Robert Harris, a lawyer with Lerch, Early & Brewer, representing Pulte Homes, said Pulte applied for a sewer category change in 2009 to extend sewer lines to its site, and the county has never responded. Any of the five plans proposed so far by WSSC could be implemented effectively, Harris said. Pulte Homes sued the county in November, claiming its property rights were violated by the
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horal students at Kingsview Middle School performed to a standing room only crowd of parents, teachers and fellow students at their winter concert at Northwest High School on Thursday. “They work me like crazy, and I work them like crazy too,” said an enthusiastic Joshua Sommerville, substitute teacher and choir director, to the crowd. A total 270 students participated, in-
cluding 88 from the sixth grade, 78 from the seventh grade and 104 from the eighth grade, according to the program. Each grade presented songs separately under the direction of Sommerville, who also played the piano. A 2009 Gaithersburg High graduate, Sommerville attended Towson University and started substitute teaching in the Montgomery County school system in 2013. Sommerville, who has also worked with church choirs, said he had never worked with such exceptional singers.
“These kids are extremely good,” said Sommerville, who selected the songs for the concert. Accompanied by musicians on drums and keyboard, the chorus performances also featured nearly a dozen soloists, who also won enthusiastic applause from the audience for their individual performances. The concert was recorded, and CD’s are available for $30, Sommerville said. Chorus is an elective at Kingsview
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Before a site is selected for additional commuter parking spaces at the MARC train stop in Boyds, the State Highway Administration must complete a traffic study of the roads and intersections in the area. Traffic already backs up in the morning on Clarksburg Road
Cricket fields are one idea for the development of Boyds Local Park at the Md. 121/Md. 117 intersection, now being studied in conjunction with ideas for additional parking and new commuter bus service to the MARC railway stop in Boyds.
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Parent Myron Marlin read a poem Thursday evening to share his thoughts on school bell times with the Montgomery County Board of Education. “If we were each farmers plowing our fields, not city folks mowing our lawn, then it might make more sense to have our kids rise, one hour sooner than dawn,” Marlin said, reciting “Please Let Our Kids Get More Sleep.” Marlin was one of many parents, doctors, students
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Doctors at American Spine in Germantown and throughout the State of Maryland have rolled out a new experimental set of regenerative treatments for injuries ranging from torn muscles to serious back pain and patients are starting to take notice. Frank Chilcoat received his first platelet rich plasma injection on Dec. 2 for what he described
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as, “Two tears on the outer part of my shoulder in the muscle.” “I’ve actually seen some difference already,” Chilcoat said. “My range of motion was very bad. I was limited and I would get pain.” Platelet rich plasma injections and stem cell therapies are under American Spine’s umbrella term of “Regenerative Medicine Therapy,” which the practice describes as “the application of biological therapies that enhance the body’s ability to heal itself.” American Spine has several different locations, including one in Olney and another in a brand
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(Md. 121) where it dead ends at Clopper Road (Md. 171) near the railroad overpass. “SHA has identified that the southern intersection’s three-way stop condition creates major delays along southbound Md. 121, which in turn exacerbates the operations at the northern intersection [at Barnesville Road],” said Aruna Miller with the county’s Department of Transportation in an email. “SHA is looking into near and
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Kingsview Middle School students perform under the direction of Joshua Sommerville during their winter choral concert at Northwest High School on Thursday in Germantown.
Pulte Homes is again at odds with environmental groups, this time over how to design a sewer system to serve three large tracts planned for future growth in the Clarksburg/Boyds area. The County Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy & Environment committee is expected to discuss the issue at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Environmentalists say the five ideas presented so far by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission would damage the Ten Mile Creek watershed west of Interstate 270 because of mul-
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DAY BY DAY Olney Theatre Center combines classic Schwartz musical “Godspell” with updated Broadway elements.
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