Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics for May 19 The Maryland Department of Health reported 29 new COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County Wednesday morning. The county’s cumulative case count is 70,585. Montgomery County recorded one new coronavirus-related fatality Wednesday, so the death toll climbs to 1,491 which is the highest in the state. As of May 9, there […]
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They’ve put in the hours, trained hard, and dreamed. On the cusp of reaching the next level, these elite high school athletes have had to push through lots of setbacks. Meet five Bethesda-area teens who haven’t let the pandemic slow them down. By Caralee Adams |
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Parker Hill was getting ready to leave for the girls basketball state semifinals on March 12, 2020. Her Winston Churchill High School teammates were gathered in the gym, where the coach had told them that the game had been canceled due to COVID-19, but she was just returning from the locker room and missed the announcement.
Colors, mascot announced for future Odessa Shannon Middle School
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May 4, 2021 | 10:50 am
May 4, 2021
Colors, mascot announced for future Odessa Shannon Middle School
When Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring is renamed in July, it will also have a new mascot and school colors.
In a video message, MCPS announced that the school, which will be renamed Odessa Shannon Middle School, will use wolves as its mascot. Its school colors will be blue and light green.
Blue was the top color families chose in a preference survey, and light green was Odessa Shannon’s favorite color, according to MCPS.
As of Thursday, under 73,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered at nine county-run sites in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to the county’s chief health officer.
“We have vaccinated more than any other jurisdiction in first doses as well as second doses,” said Dr. Travis Gayles, the county’s health officer and chief of public health services.
Supply of vaccine remains an issue, with the county expecting 4,500 first doses per week for the next few weeks. Demand for the vaccine is outpacing supply in several D.C.-area jurisdictions.
During a virtual town hall with the county’s council, County Executive Marc Elrich said his hope is the number of doses will improve by mid-March.
People waited outside in line for two hours-plus on Thursday at vaccine site in Rockville
About half of the residents who are showing up at county sites are not yet eligible to receive the vaccine By Dan Schere and Caitlynn Peetz |
February 11, 2021 | 4:05 pm
People waited in line two hours or more on Thursday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville.
Photo by Dan Schere
In near-freezing temperatures Thursday afternoon, a line of people anxious to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Rockville’s Richard Montgomery High School stretched from one side of the building, past the baseball stadium and onto Fleet Street in the surrounding neighborhood.