UPDATED: MCPS employee under investigation for inappropriate sexual behavior during video link with students, said he thought camera was off
Paraeducator at Shady Grove Middle School placed on administrative leave
Teachers union’s drive-in protest draws hundreds opposed to MCPS reopening plan
In-person classes will start Monday for small percentage of students
Council considering $3.8M for county employee raises, benefits
Compensation would replace COVID-19 hazard pay policy that was eliminated
Business Notes: Pike & Rose building adds technology company as its top-floor tenant
Plus: CVS planning to add another downtown Bethesda store
89.3% of MCPS seniors graduated in 2020
Rate increased six-tenths of 1 point from previous year
Quarter of MCPS buses to be electric by 2024
First 25 buses in operation next school year
County’s weekly COVID-19 case averages steadily dropping since mid-January
Mongomery records 141 new cases
Council proposes bill making county responsible for shoveling some sidewalks
Plus: County leaders urge Asian American community to preregister for vaccine; State board approves testing all students on math, English in spring
MCPS approves tentative $2.8 billion budget
District expecting increase after fear of decreased state funding
MCPS will conduct ‘surveillance’ testing for COVID-19 in reopened schools
District, county hope to give employees at least one vaccine dose before returning
What to know about the MCPS reopening plan
A small percentage of students will begin returning to classes on Monday
State might add more mass vaccination sites after others are set up
Maryland has six sites open or planned; none in Montgomery
Man charged with stabbing woman in Wheaton
Police said he did not know the victim
The eye guy
With kids staring at computer monitors all day, a Chevy Chase ophthalmologist is hearing from plenty of anxious parents
Animal farm
A Montgomery County park was once a government location for studying diseases in animals
Book report
New works by Bethesda-area authors
Weddings of the year
A peek inside the celebrations of four couples who altered their plans and got married in the midst of the pandemic
Takeout takeaways
Our restaurant critic looks into the challenges of carryout and shares his strategies for making the most of the to-go experience
Fighting back
After Mark and Jenny Mosier lost their 6-year-old son, Michael, to a rare form of brain cancer, the Bethesda couple committed to doing whatever it takes to keep other families from suffering the way they have
A change in plans
Renovations during the pandemic have required adjustments—from setting up sanitizing stations to workers entering through a second-story window
To ski or not to ski
You don’t have to hit the slopes to enjoy these mid-Atlantic winter resorts
Mask makers
A local group of volunteers has donated nearly 37,000 face masks—and they’re still sewing
Bethesda interview: Kate Andersen Brower
Bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower talks about presidents and first ladies, juggling kids and interviews, and that time Joe Biden made sure all the reporters had their seat belts on
