Hearing on Pepco’s proposal to raise electricity rates takes place Tuesday
The Maryland Public Service Commission will host a hearing at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Montgomery County Executive Office Building in Rockville to discuss a proposal to raise electricity rates by $104 million—an increase of about $13 per month for the average residential customer. The proposal to increase rates comes after Pepco was sold to the Chicago-based utility Exelon in March. The utility said the rate increase is needed to offset $327 million in power grid improvements it has made over the past two years. The executive office building is at 101 Monroe St.
Heat wave predicted until at least Saturday
We may be past Labor Day, but we can’t escape the heat. The National Weather Service predicts sunny days with highs in the low-90s each day until Saturday. The hottest day is expected to be Thursday when the high could reach 95 degrees. Nighttime lows are predicted to drop into the mid-70s each night. No rain is forecast.
Police forces join together for food drive this week
Maryland State Police are partnering with the Montgomery County Police Department and Maryland Department of Transportation for a week-long food drive to benefit the Maryland Food Bank this week. Police will be accepting nonperishable food donations at the state police barracks in Rockville as well as at any of the six county police district stations. The food drive runs until Sunday.
Angels in America premieres at Roundhouse Theatre Wednesday
The Bethesda theatre will premiere the first part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: Millennium Approaches on Wednesday and the show will run through Sept. 18, before the theater transitions to the second part, Perestroika, on Sept. 25. The two-part play chronicles the sexual, religious and political forces that collide at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The play premiered to critical acclaim on Broadway in 1993 and then rose to international fame when HBO produced a miniseries version that was first broadcast in 2003. Tickets can be purchased on Roundhouse’s website or at the theater’s box office.
