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Week in Review: Bank Robber, Curfew Debate and a Local Soccer Star

A look at the top news Aug. 14 through Aug. 20.

Editor's Note: Look for my county fair highlights coming up on Monday.

We started off the week with columnist Richard Parsons' Will he play it safe, or will he press for a politically risky stance?

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We also reported on the The flash mob at the 7-Eleven in Germantown as garnered national attention. However, according to a story in The Washington Post, those youth organized via word of mouth, not social media—as is typical of flash mobs.

Speaking of youth, a Patch contributor went out into the community and . Many teens oppose the idea while the bill has drawn mixed reactions from parents and members of the business community.

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A popular read on the site this week was our biweekly dog column. Columnist Marisa Landau gave some .

Our . Columnist Roger Hamilton's informative and witty nugget's are the stuff of a Twitterer's dreams.

It was for this tweeter, "Oh, the juicy tidbits one could tweet from MD #Streams Symposium. 'Snakehead found in a blue catfish’s stomach.'"

If you haven't read the latest on the suspect in the SunTrust Bank robberies in Potomac, you're in for quite a tale. It turns out that —eight armed robberies at banks throughout Montgomery County and three bank robberies in Virginia.

On Friday, one of my favorite sports contributor's did a nice feature on Churchill grad

We ended the week on not the highest of notes: Gov. Martin O’Malley warned county leaders at the Maryland Association of Counties conference in Ocean City to

Potomac Patch wishes you a happy Sunday. May you have a good week, one of the last before the new school year begins.


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