UPDATED: Pat O’Neill, longtime Montgomery County school board member, dead at 71
Was longest-serving board member in district history
UPDATED: Rockville man charged with neglect after father’s remains found in his home
Other relatives reported no contact with father in nearly a year
Amended Bethesda development proposal is back with more residential units
Building on Cheltenham Drive would be up to 90 feet high
Elrich, state lawmakers urge residents to apply for homestead tax credit
Deadline is Oct. 1; credit helps middle- to low-income households
UPDATED: Takoma Torch, Olney baseball team call truce after dust-up over satire story
Baseball team’s attorney had sent cease-and-desist letter to humor website
Victims of Wheaton, Derwood crashes identified
Female pedestrian, male driver were killed on Monday
Former Chevy Chase man to plead guilty to bribery in college admissions scandal at Georgetown
He allegedly received $2.7M, misrepresented applicants as tennis recruits
Reflections on school board member Pat O’Neill
Longest-serving board member in district's history died on Tuesday
I-270 ramp meters will fully activate on Wednesday
Plus: General Assembly committee approves mask mandate in public schools; Nonprofits can apply for Watershed Restoration and Outreach Grants
Sold in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac: Sept. 7-14
Notable homes sold in the past week
Organizations voice support for extending rent-stabilization bill
Legislation caps rent increases, prevents landlords from charging late fees
Vehicle hits child near Montgomery Village Middle School
Child had minor injuries; vehicle left scene
After pushback on quarantines, MCPS again updates protocol for unvaccinated students
Availability of rapid COVID-19 tests is factor in change
Get away
Your cheat sheet for a weekend away
Cool and connected
Kitchen life gets an upgrade with the latest high-tech appliances
Women who inspire
They are trailblazers, leaders, doers and achievers. They’ve worked hard to get to where they are, and they aren’t stopping. Here are eight local women who are accomplished, fierce—and inspiring.
College bound
Where Bethesda-area high school graduates applied to college and where they were accepted
The activists
Two sisters from Rockville are fighting to save the planet
The power of words
For Montgomery College student Sasa Aakil, the county’s first youth poet laureate, writing is a way to express hurt and hope
‘It still seems unbelievable’
At 36, Simon Maloy was a successful political writer with a wife and two young sons. Then he found out he had colon cancer, a disease striking more and more young people.
Over easy does it
Celebrity chef and philanthropist José Andrés turns his Bethesda location of Jaleo into Spanish Diner
Best bets
Things to see and do in the Bethesda area in September and October
Bethesda interview: Monifa McKnight
Monifa McKnight, the interim superintendent of MCPS, talks about why she became an educator, being the first woman to lead the state’s largest school system, and how she’s never too tired to garden
