The Marshalls coming to Gaithersburg Square will be "relocating from a nearby shopping destination," Federal Realty said, without specifying the exact address. Marshalls currently has stores in Montgomery Village and Rockville. The Gaithersburg store will open in the fall of 2021.
Hogan also ordered most hospital visits to be suspended with some exceptions, and nursing home visitors will be limited to compassionate care visitors, who have to be tested 72 hours before visiting. The governor also banned all attendance at professional and collegiate sporting events, just weeks after fans were allowed to return to stadiums in the state.
Under the new restrictions, all retail stores and places of worship must reduce capacity to 50%. Hogan urged any students returning from college, or who plan to be around elderly relatives for Thanksgiving, to get tested for Covid-19 first.
The governor asked hospitals to postpone any elective procedures or treatments where possible. He said hospitalizations are up 100% since November 1. The number of patients in ICU beds is the highest since June 2020. Maryland's Health Department is issuing an order to allow hospitals that are full, or nearing capacity, to transfer patients to other hospitals.
"We are in a war right now, and the virus is winning," Hogan said. "Now more than ever, I am pleading with the people of our state to stand together a while longer to help us battle this surging virus.”
"Seeing the sodium chloride brine with a significantly lower level of glow was the 'aha' moment that changed the course of the research," Bateman said in a NASA press release. Unlike our moon, Europa glows even on its dark side without light from the sun. "If Europa weren't under this radiation, it would look the way our moon looks to us - dark on the shadowed side," JPL's Murthy Gudipati said. "But because it's bombarded by the radiation from Jupiter, it glows in the dark."
Measurements made with the help of Bateman at NIST may well assist identification of salty components on the icy moon's surface when Europa Clipper arrives, NASA predicts.
Photo courtesy NASA
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| Sydney Naylor |
Naylor helped Glenelg Country School attain national ranking as a freshman, and was one of the top scorers in Howard County as a sophomore. She was nominated to the Nike 120 as well as the Under Armour 150 and was named MVP of the EMPIRE Camp in Baltimore in 2020.
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| Maeve Murray |
Photos via University of Pittsburgh
The new restrictions limit gatherings to 25 people or less. 25% capacity restrictions will also apply to houses of worship, retail stores, museums and galleries, and gyms. Restaurants will now be required to maintain a record of all indoor and outdoor patrons, for at least 30 days, to assist with contact tracing. Information collected must include date, time, name of each patron and contact information.
Loss of indoor dining capacity comes just as plummeting temperatures make outdoor dining much less practical. Whether heaters and tents will in any way reduce that impact will be determined for the first time this winter. We are in uncharted waters in an industry that already has razor-thin profit margins in high-rent, high-tax, high-operating-cost, liquor-monopoly-controlled Montgomery County.
At the same time, there is no doubt the pandemic is taking a turn for the worse as winter approaches, as many had predicted. Maryland hospital beds are currently filled at a higher rate than during the summer coronavirus spike. All County hospitals were under Blue Alert Monday night, and at least one went to a full Red Alert Tuesday, forcing rerouting of emergency patients who require electrocardiogram-monitored beds. Yesterday, Covid-related hospitalizations in America reached a record high.
Tickets are now available to purchase online.
It's an odd choice by the chain, since it is a prime location compared to some out-of-the-way Starbucks stores. However, Starbucks has said it will close at least 500 stores across the country to increase profits. A downtown Bethesda store also recently closed its doors. There are still two small Starbucks outlets inside Target and Barnes & Noble at Rio Lakefront.
100% of Election Day-cast voting results were released by the Montgomery County Board of Elections as of 1:53 AM this morning, as well as some early voting tabulations. Analysis of the results follows below. No election-related unrest has impacted Montgomery County so far, as both Joe Biden and Donald Trump retained pathways to victory in the presidential race overnight, with Biden winning Maryland and holding the lead in electoral votes nationally as of this hour.
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CVS Pharmacy unexpectedly closes
election night in downtown Bethesda
Election results analysis
Montgomery County 2020 election results so far show the county's political machine in full control, with a majority of voters rejecting citizen-petitioned ballot questions, and endorsing a County Council ballot question that would allow their taxes to be raised higher than ever. It's unclear if voters knew approving Question A would end up giving them more and larger tax hikes, as the text of the question falsely made it appear to be a limit on taxation. But voters rejected Question B that would have actually placed a new limit on tax increases, despite having supported Robin Ficker's other tax cap ballot questions in the past.
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| Boarded-up businesses in Friendship Heights |
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| Police cruiser parked inside the Maryland-D.C. border in Chevy Chase |
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| Jeff Bezos taking no chances |
The Post dedicated several pages to high-quality coverage of the D.C. City Council races this year. It glaringly did not in the 2018 Montgomery County Council races, a clear indication of its role in stifling any voices of dissent or change in Montgomery County.
Coming soon to Rio is Amazing Lash Studio. Services will include eyelash extensions, lash lifting, and volumizing. It will be located right by Roosters at 20-D Grand Corner.
Chef-owner John Rajoo hails from southern India, and received his formal culinary training in Chennai. Take a look at the soft opening menu here.
