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Hi Germantown! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Zoo Mantality plans to put Germantown on the fitness map
  • Could Germantown’s planned charter school campus close before it even opens?

Also on today's calendar: Child Care Open House and 9 more events.

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Today's riddle: I once read a book about anti-gravity. 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Friday: Considerable cloudiness, with a high of 38 and low of 28 degrees.
  • Saturday: Breezy in the a.m.; clearing, temps: high: 44, low: 26.
  • Sunday: 1-3" of snow in the morning, with a high of 30 and low of 16 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!

📰 News we're reading

• Zoo Mantality Brings Community, Brotherhood, and Now Live Workout Battles to Montgomery County (mocoshow.com) — A Germantown-based fitness brotherhood called Zoo Mantality is turning community workouts and mentorship at Avana Northlake apartments into a growing local movement, complete with live “workout battles.” Founders from Northwest High and other Montgomery County roots are expanding into youth programs, food and school supply drives, and paid competitions they hope will put Germantown on the map for this new style of fitness.
   

• Montgomery County's only charter school will fight closure effort (thebaltimorebanner.com) — Families in Germantown should know that Montgomery County’s only charter school, Mecca Business Learning Institute, was originally supposed to open at a Germantown campus but now faces possible closure before it ever moves there. Superintendent Thomas Taylor is urging the school board to revoke its charter over special education, enrollment, and privacy concerns, while school leaders are appealing to the state for an impartial review.
   

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  • Over a month ago, I learned from my child there was an incident at school.
    The school never reported to the parents of an incident happening. Are the schools no longer doing that? I emailed the principal and her supporting… (Nextdoor Fountain Hills)
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    Does anyone know or recommend a company that can give me an estimate on replacing it? preferably good rates. Thanks (Nextdoor Hickory Tree Way)
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🗞 Nearby News

Montgomery Village

  • Alex Ovechkin hosts Montgomery players with disabilities (thebaltimorebanner.com)
  • Stress-Free Eating: How Healthy Prepared Meals Can Prevent Holiday Weight Gain – [your]NEWS (yournews.com)
  • The Pulse: Fired, Furloughed & Fed Up, Former Federal Workers Speak Out on Job Crisis (mymcmedia.org)

Clarksburg

  • Montgomery County judge rules Catherine Hoggle competent to stand trial in 2014 deaths of her kids (washingtontimes.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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