Quick Hits: Weekend picks for Montgomery and Prince George's counties
The Washington Balalaika Society, led by conductor and music director Svetlana Nikonova, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with concerts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, and again at 3 p.m. ...
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2 days, 8 hours AGOWorkplace advocates fighting for flex
At the Alliance for Workplace Excellence's annual awards luncheon in North Bethesda on Wednesday, keynote speaker Carol Evans cited that decision as an “attack on flex.” The alliance is a nonprofit ... The telework program at Social & Scientific ...
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2 days, 18 hours AGOReporters Notebook: A familiar top tech exec
... business Sourcefire, Technology Firm of the Year; Silver Spring high-tech firm Sonatype, Emerging Company of the Year; D.C.-based Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Life Science Firm of the Year; and Bethesda defense giant Lockheed Martin, Hall of Fame Award.
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2 days, 18 hours AGOCharges for procedures vary between area hospitals
Among the five hospitals in Montgomery County and Frederick Memorial Hospital, the average charge to Medicare for hypertension without major complications, for example, varies from $4,963 at Suburban Hosptial in Bethesda to $6,667 at Washington ...
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2 days, 18 hours AGOLarsen applies physics to growing Bethesda business
“I liked finding out how things work,” said Larsen, CEO of Bethesda information technology company Aquas Inc. “It really helped me later, when I started my business. In college, I learned how to look at problems and break them down into small pieces.
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2 days, 18 hours AGOPlans for new Bethesda post office met with skepticism
A United States Post Office representative told locals at a meeting on Wednesday that Bethesda was getting a new post office because it was “a booming area,” contradicting an earlier email sent to The Gazette by a USPS spokeswoman that parking issues ...
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3 days, 4 hours AGOThinking outside the classroom box in Prince George's
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin, a security technology and aerospace company, is providing software for Fairmont Heights, Suitland and High Point high schools to begin sharing class instruction. The program will allow students in each school to take ...
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3 days, 18 hours AGOClarksburg high jumper exceeds expectations
Distracted and stiffened by a weather delay, Williams had clipped the bar on his first two attempts. Just from the way he repeatedly asked the official running the event when his turn was, ... Nicholas McGreivy hung around for a while after the high ...
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4 days, 8 hours AGOGirls lacrosse impacting softball participation
When 11th-year Thomas S. Wootton High School softball coach Al Lightsey first took over the Patriots program, he said it was fairly easy to lure gifted athletes from fall sports such as soccer and field hockey to the softball diamond each spring to ...
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4 days, 8 hours AGOBoys lacrosse program building 101
Widely viewed as a sport for kids from a more affluent background, it's hard to argue when the schools with the most long-term success come from schools in Bethesda, Potomac and Rockville. In the Interstate Athletic Conference, Landon School and ...
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4 days, 8 hours AGONew federal campaign urges parents to teach dangers of alcohol to pre-teens
Parents should watch for warning signs, such as changes in behavior, and seek help if they have a gut feeling that something is wrong, said Beth Kane Davidson, program director of the addiction treatment center at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. ... By ...
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4 days, 18 hours AGORockville Library, Writer's Center welcome inaugural poet
Blanco has taught locally, at American and Georgetown universities, the Arlington Correctional Facility and The Writer's Center in Bethesda, where he will read on Saturday evening. He also will speak Friday evening at the Rockville Memorial Library.
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4 days, 18 hours AGODeveloper: Clarksburg Premium outlets could open in 2015
Aiming to put shovels to dirt sometime in 2014, Ron Kaplan, co-managing principal of the now Bethesda-based Streetscape Partners said in a private interview with The Gazette on May 8 that the partnership hopes to open the outlet mall for business by ...
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4 days, 18 hours AGOTwo group exhibitions highlight Montgomery County artists
“Seeing Food” at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery in Silver Spring, is a themed show with work in varied media by 15 Montgomery County artists, while “Seven Variations and a Conversation” at Gallery B in Bethesda presents the work of seven local artists ...
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5 days, 6 hours AGOPilot collaboration brings virtual classes, programs to Prince George's students
The pilot program, a partnership with Lockheed Martin, a Bethesda-based global security technology and aerospace company, will provide technology at three county schools — Fairmont Heights, Suitland and High Point high schools — that will let ...
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6 days, 4 hours AGODemocratic Party says 100 shy away from fundraiser because of union protest
1) of Bethesda. The protest occurred outside the Montgomery County Conference Center while one of the party's major fundraisers, the Spring Ball, took place inside. Union members formed picket lines around the center's entrances, chanting and carrying ...
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1 week AGONorthwest girls win again
Second, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase sophomore was leading by a cozy 25-30 meters with barely a lap remaining. Third, Beakes had proven not two weeks ago that she could compete with a Penn Relays field. And then Walt Whitman's Clare Severe rendered ...
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1 week, 1 day AGONorthwest girls win again, Clarksburg boys on cusp
Second, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase sophomore was leading by a cozy 25-30 meters with barely a lap remaining. Third, Beakes had proven not two weeks ago that she could compete with a Penn Relays field. And then Walt Whitman's Clare Severe rendered ...
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1 week, 2 days AGOReporter's Notebook: Bethesda, the last refuge for state's huge companies
When this year's Fortune 500 list was released Monday, it contained four Maryland companies — all based in Bethesda. Those were defense giant Lockheed Martin, managed health care company Coventry Health Care, hotelier Marriott International and ...
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1 week, 2 days AGOFederal Internet sales tax is no penny-ante issue
David Goldberg, co-owner of Union Hardware in Bethesda, supports the bill, which still needs to pass the U.S. House of Representatives. Online retailers can lower prices well below what he has to charge to stay in business, and the legislation to ...
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