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MD Weekend Events: Trail Work Day, Chadwick The Crab, Irish Fest
This weekend, take advantage of the crisp fall air in MD to head outside and go work on a trail, shop at a craft fair, or admire the birds.

Colleen Martin was an intern on the Massachusetts Patch team before joining the Maryland Patch team as a field editor from June 2021 to July 2022.
This weekend, take advantage of the crisp fall air in MD to head outside and go work on a trail, shop at a craft fair, or admire the birds.

MOCO Public Schools will be closed Nov. 24 due to substitute teacher shortages and a trend of low attendance the day before Thanksgiving.
Construction for Pleasant View Park started on Nov. 8. There will be a playground, bike track, welcome plaza, and more.
A Kersey Road synagogue was robbed twice — on Sept. 21 and Oct. 31. Police say a suspect took cash from the collection jar.
Cigarette butts left in a plastic bin on the balcony of a Germantown apartment are believed to be the cause of a fire early Tuesday morning.
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A student suspected of stabbing another student out Blair High School has been charged. His relative brought a weapon to school Tuesday.
Brooke Weaver, 17, has been found safe and unharmed.
Three men robbed a Rockville 7-Eleven and held two employees and a customer gunpoint, police said. They stole cash from the store.
A mother was waiting for her children's school bus when a car stopped in front of her, and a man jumped out and tried to pull her in.
A fire in a Silver Spring home has displaced the two adults and seven kids that lived there. No one was hurt, Montgomery Fire said.
Rockville Station and Shady Grove Station are now expected to open in January.
A Derwood man who was reported missing was found dead in a park two days later. Police said there are no signs of foul play.
Police say Jonathan Mohelski, 36, called 911 and said he found his friend dead on the bathroom floor. He has been charged with murder.
Two men went into a Bethesda pharmacy and demanded drugs, MOCO Police said. The robbery was interrupted when a customer walked in.
Fall vacuum leaf collection begins soon. Check to see if you are in the zone for pick-up.