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Rockville resident and Landon School administrator Joan Vassos became a household name when she became a contestant on the ABC show The Golden Bachelor. Vassos, 60, hit it off with the show’s namesake Gerry Turner, a 71 year-old widower from In
Scott Van Pelt graduated from Sherwood High School and University of Maryland. After more than 20 years at ESPN, Scott Van Pelt has become one of the most successful and popular sportscasters in the business. The SportsCenter anchor has over tw
Kayla DiCello is a world-class gymnast at the University of Florida. The Boyds native and Northwest High School alum was recently honored as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year. DiCello is working to make the U.S. Olympic t
Lisa Ann Walter was born and bred in Silver Spring. She graduated from Blair High School and Catholic University. Two years ago, Walter became part of an ensemble cast that formed ABC's Emmy Award-winning show Abbott Elementary, about a public
TCU (Texas Christian University) will be playing for the college football national championship against defending champions Georgia in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan.9. Coming into the season, the Horned Frogs were not considered serious contenders
The Quince Orchard High School football team completed their second straight undefeated season last Thursday beating CH Flowers 32-7 in the Maryland 4A state championship game. It was the Cougars’ 28th consecutive win, second straight state ti
Maryland state senator Cheryl Kagan represents District 17 which covers Rockville and Gaithersburg. The Montgomery County native has earned a reputation as one of the most passionate and influential politicians in the county, serving on power
The Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg has been around for over 70 years and has become one of the county’s can’t miss events of the summer.Marty Svrcek is the Executive Director of the fair and fair grounds. He refers to th
On December 7, 2021, Kurkjian received a call to inform him that he had been named the recipient of the prestigious Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) Career Excellence Award. He was dumbstruck.In the seven plus months since t
Retired soccer star Bruce Murray’s list of accomplishments on the field is long. Murray starred at Churchill High School, Clemson University and the U.S. National Team before playing in the pros for several years. He has been inducted into t
Paul Rabil is one of the greatest lacrosse players of all-time. He recently retired and co-founded of the Premier Lacrosse League. He grew up in Gaithersburg and was recently inducted into the Washington, DC Sports Hall of Fame. Rabil talke
Hootie & the Blowfish was one of the most popular rock bands in the world in the 1990's. Fronted by Darius Rucker, the band had a string of hits including Only Wanna Be With You and Hold My Hand and won two Grammys.Rucker met guitarists Mark B
Maury Povich, host of Maury, is the longest-running host in daytime television history. Povich spent many of his formative years in Montgomery County. He talks about growing up in MoCo, working for years at WTTG (now FOX5), his wife Connie Chun
News anchor/reporter Eun Yang has covered popes, inaugurations and everything in between in her decade-plus at NBC4 in Washington DC. For the last couple of weeks, she’s been in Tokyo covering all the local athletes – including swimmer Katie Le
Did you know that pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the United States? And that the world’s top-ranked player is from Montgomery County?Ben Johns grew up in Laytonsville playing all sports, but only one stuck: pickleball, a hybrid of
The much talked-about and written-about Brood X cicadas have started to arrive, showing up on trees and in backyards. Millions more are expected to emerge from their 17-year long slumber in the coming days.Central Maryland is expected to be th
Denny McCarthy is moving up the charts. The 28 year-old Montgomery County native is coming off the best stretch of his PGA Tour career. In his last three tournaments, he tied for 26th place at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, was 55th at The Pla
Lewis Black is that angry, ranting comedian you've seen in several stand-ups specials and who essentially played himself as the voice of Anger in the Pixar animated, Oscar-winning film Inside Out in 2015.Black grew up in a funny household in S
Dorian O'Daniel knows winning. The 26-year-old NFL linebacker won a state championship at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, won four ACC Championships and a National Championship at Clemson University and last year was a member of
Take Me Home, Country Roads was a big hit for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Denver in 1971, peaking at number two on the Billboard charts. It is considered Denver's signature song and became one of West Virginia's official state songs in 2
Curtis Pride was a dominant athlete at Kennedy High School in the 1980's in not one, not two but three sports. Pride was all-everything in baseball, basketball and soccer.This Sunday, Pride will be inducted into the Montgomery County Sports Ha
Isiah "Ike" Leggett is back in the limelight. But just briefly he says. Leggett, 76, has stepped out of retirement to join a group including David Trone, Connie Morella and Carmen Ortiz Larsen fighting against two questions on the ballot for th
Five years ago, Jake Funk helped lead Damascus High School to an undefeated 14-0 record and the 3A Maryland state title scoring seven touchdowns in the championship game against Dundalk. Now he's a senior running back at the University of Ma
Bram Weinstein is the new radio play-by-play announcer for the Washington Football Team. Weinstein grew up in Montgomery County graduating from Springbrook High School and then American University. He has worked at ESPN, ESPN radio and FOX5 ove
Silver Spring native Dominique Dawes is known by many as a three-time Olympic gymnast and a gold medal winner. But this week Dawes is doing something she considers much more significant - opening the Dominique Dawes Gymnastics Academy in Clarks
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