Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Residents complain of overhead flight noise.
If there’s one thing Bethesda-Chevy Chase residents can bond over, it's hating helicopter noise. Several times a month editors at Patch receive questions or complaints from residents asking about the helicopters heard over their neighborhoods at night. What's going on? Who can we call about the helicopter noises? What’s the number for the county’s helicopter department? Well, the answers are: It depends, a couple of people and there isn’t one. The helicopters you hear flying over Montgomery County are likely one of three types – news choppers, police choppers or medical choppers. “Aside from the occasional news helicopter up covering a crime scene at night, helicopters are typically up at night for rescue or crime fighting reasons,” …
Friday, February 1, 2013
The screening of the Oscar-nominated film was organized by Bethesda group "Give an Hour," which provides free mental health services to military personnel.
Actor Bradley Cooper attended a screening of his new movie "Silver Linings Playbook" for U.S. military personnel at Bethesda's Walter Reed National Military Center Thursday evening, according to news reports. In the movie, Cooper plays a man suffering from bipolar disorder. He's nominated for an Oscar for the role. The movie has racked up a total of eight Oscar nominations, including best picture. The screening was organized by Bethesda-based non-profit "Give an Hour," which provides free mental health services to military personnel, Variety reported. “We’re going to show it to about 50 guys, and do a Q and A afterwards," Cooper told Chris Matthews on Hardball. "That's the best part about this thing is that it's able to reach out and make …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
More than 200 janitors say they haven't been paid for two weeks, The Gazette reports.
More than 200 janitors who work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center say they have not been paid for two weeks by their employer, a Gaithersburg-based company that contracts with the federal government, The Gazette reports. The Services Employees International Union Local 32BJ has filed a complaint with the federal labor department, petitioning the government to stop disbursements to the company, Escab Enterprises, and pay the workers directly, according to the report. The company has asked the janitors to continue working, according the report. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, which oversees Walter Reed Bethesda housekeeping contracts, was looking into the complaint Monday, according to Walter Reed Bethesda spokeswoman …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The incident involving a gun being fired by a Navy official at Walter Reed snarled traffic for hours and created chaos on Rockville Pike.
A woman charged in a two-state car chase and traffic melee involving gunfire outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda was released from a psychiatric ward days before the incident, the Gazette reports. The woman, identified by police as Angela A. Cobbold, 27, of Manassas, VA, was released from a mental facility Oct. 19 and apparently had not taken prescribed medicine, The Gazette reported, citing statements made at Cobbold’s Wednesday bond review hearing by Montgomery County Assistant State’s Attorney Peter Feeney. Cobbold has been charged with first degree assault, according to Montgomery County police. Feeney said Cobbold had a “significant psychiatric history,” The Gazette reported. A judge ordered a mental …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Police say Angela Akosua Cobbold led police on two car chases and rammed her car into a security vehicle near a Walter Reed Bethesda gate, where a Navy security officer fired his gun.
A 27-year-old Manassas woman lead police on two car chases along streets in Virginia, Bethesda and Rockville Tuesday, police said, and rammed her car into a security vehicle near a Walter Reed Bethesda gate, where a Navy security officer fired his gun. Angela Akosua Cobbold of the 7800 block of Blue Gray Circle in Manassas was being evaluated at a hospital Tuesday afternoon following the incident, during which police said she was seen attempting to eat a bar of soap. Police say one shot was fired but no one was hit after Cobbold backed into the security vehicle near the North Gate of Naval Support Activity Bethesda, the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, just before noon. One Navy security officer suffered non-life…
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Police say a shot was fired by a Navy official after a woman tried to hit an officer with her car.
Updated 4:20 p.m. Police have released the name of the female suspect in a Tuesday afternoon incident in which a Navy official fired a gun outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Police say the woman rammed police and security vehicles with her car after a car chase from Virginia, then lead police on a second chase down Rockville Pike. Angela Akosua Cobbold, 27, of Manassas, VA, was in custody and being evaluated at a hospital after leading police on a chase from Walter Reed that culminated in a crash on Nebel Street in Rockville near the Harris Teeter. A Navy official fired a gun during the incident, after Cobbold attempted to use her vehicle to hit security vehicles, police said. The incident at Walter Reed began in …
Friday, October 19, 2012
A Navy traffic study doesn't offer a complete picture as to how traffic has worsened near Walter Reed Bethesda since the BRAC transition last year, according to county BRAC coordinator Phil Alperson.
A Navy traffic study may not offer a complete picture as to how traffic has worsened near Walter Reed Bethesda since the BRAC transition last year, county BRAC coordinator Phil Alperson said at a Thursday Planning Board hearing. Thursday, proposed construction at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, went before the Montgomery County Planning Board for an advisory review. As a part of the federally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure process, a portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center merged with the military hospital last year, prompting an uptick in employees and visitors and a host of traffic concerns for thoroughfares around the base. The campus also houses the …
Rachele Sills
12:57 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013
It seems the military flights patrol around residential area day and night after 911. Those flights make loud noise frequently and follow innocent citizens everywhere. It's very annoying and disturbing! more ›