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Ride On service may face cutbacks
With Ride On proposing to reduce service on 12 routes and changing two others, bus riders are worried how much it will affect their daily commutes and their ability to get around.
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Dumb dumb dumb
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Dumb dumb dumb 1. Sam Raker, in an op-ed in the Gazette last week, writes in " What planners don't tell us about Metro-centered development ," that transit oriented development is ...
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Murder mixes with royalty in new mystery
Although Takoma Park author Susan Froetschel says her mystery novel "Royal Escape" is not modeled on the life of the late Princess Diana, you don't have to look far to see similarity.
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Takoma Park volunteers distribute toys for families in need
Chief James Jarboe of the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department waits for the next family to arrive at the ezStorage facility in Takoma Park, where he and other city organizations sorted and handed out gift ...
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Thinking - green' trickles down to low-income neighborhoods
When Annie Scott moved back into her Takoma Park Sligo View apartment building earlier this month, she thought the new owners would just do a regular paint job, but she was pleasantly surprised.
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Enviros respond to NRC, Constellation
A coalition of environmental groups has filed a brief with a regulatory panel defending its challenges to a proposed expansion of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby.
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Old plans never die, they just fade away
Monday, December 22, 2008 Old plans never die, they just fade away At an antique shop in Frederick, MD yesterday, I found a copy of a Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission study for Takoma ...
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Two convicted in bank heist
Two Maryland men were found guilty Friday in U.S. District Court for their roles in a bank heist conspiracy that took more than half a million dollars from a Wheaton bank in January.
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Male and female wounded in police-involved shooting
Takoma Park Police are investigating a shooting earlier today in which an officer who responded to a domestic violence call at a city apartment shot a male who refused to drop a weapon and one of the bullets ...
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Stabbing Suspect Shot by Police
Investigators are still putting together a picture of the violent events that led to a brutal stabbing and a police-involved shooting in Takoma park Sunday night and Monday morning.
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It's OK to be a tightwad for the holidays
Consumers have done more than their fair share to keep the economy afloat for years.
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Takoma Park's Contradiction Dance group survives shaky start
Darhyl Ly-On of A Different Drum, led a group in drumming Saturday during "All Lit Up," a dance presentation in Takoma Park that also featured Contradiction Dance, Dance Afire, Mini Shock & Future Shock and ...
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Corporations engaged in manufacture of nuclear weaponry
Submitted by Anonymousy on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 3:41pm. question / pregunta: Takoma Park MD is a nuclear free zone, by ordinance.
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Q&A: In complicated times, advice for 'Simple Abundance'
In 1995, Takoma Park, Md., writer Sarah Ban Breathnach published Simple Abundance and launched a sensation.
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Civil rights expert Perez raises political profile
After decades of working to enhance civil rights, Maryland Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Tom Perez has brought his expertise to the person who could make the most use of it -- President-elect ...
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Amendments for forest on hold, for now
Proposed amendments to the county's forest conservation law have been tabled temporarily, while county officials discuss changing the law to protect individual trees on small lots in addition to larger amounts ...
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Maryland launches New Americans Council
Ana Ramirez, a registered nurse, speaks at the Maryland New Americans Partnership press conference Wednesday at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park.
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Council member's rapid bus system on transit table
Some area officials seem to be warming to the possibility of a rapid bus system in the county as another method of relieving congestion on some of the county's most clogged roadways.
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Council passes law to curb mansions
After more than a year of debate, the Montgomery County Council passed a bill Tuesday limiting the size of houses in certain older neighborhoods throughout the county.
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Man falls to his death behind apartments
Montgomery County police are investigating the death of a man who fell 30 feet from a hillside onto an apartment complex driveway Saturday evening in Takoma Park.
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