<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Montgomery</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/md/montgomery?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><description>Montgomery</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[For Immigrants, Help Can Be Risky]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10363-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10363-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Mariana C. Cordier, president of the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association, has heard an increasing number of complaints over the past year from people who say their immigration applications were botched by consultants.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing Spurs Policy Review]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10754-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10754-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Joyce Hadl called 911 just before 1 p.m. Aug. 16, complaining that her tenant, Susan Lynn Sachs, was acting strangely and needed psychiatric help.]]></description><author> David Snyder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Adjusting To Grading Shift]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Walter Johnson is one of two high schools in Montgomery County to begin grading its students using a system that emphasizes academic achievement over participation.]]></description><author> Lori Aratani</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl Accused Of Writing Threats at Md. School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6228-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6228-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 13-year-old girl wrote two notes containing death threats that appeared in recent weeks at Montgomery Village Middle School in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County police said yesterday.]]></description><author> David Snyder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early Start on Reading Spells Success Later, County Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5683-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5683-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kindergarten teacher Laurie Weaver's classroom is a kaleidoscope of colors. Nearly every available inch of wall and blackboard is covered with the alphabet,  words and pictures.]]></description><author> Julie Rasicot</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picking a School Is a Multiple-Choice Question]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area parents enjoy an increasing choice of schools for their children. There are regular public schools, magnet public schools, charter public schools and, for parents with enough money, private schools, some faith-oriented and some not.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Animal Watch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4650-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4650-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> The following were among cases received recently by the Montgomery County Animal Services Division. For more information, call 240-773-5054. This number provides recorded information on such topics as Montgomery County Animal Shelter hours and location, adoption and licensing procedures, rabies clinics and low-cost neutering.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Calendar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4400-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4400-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thursday 21 <br>   BETHESDA BOOK TALK,  Sherwood Anderson's short story collection "Winesburg, Ohio"; books available for check-out. 2-3:30 p.m., Bethesda Branch Library, 7400 Arlington Rd., Bethesda. Free; registration requested. 240-777-0937.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Post Offices Targeted by Robbers in Md.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6229-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6229-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It had been a year and a half since a U.S. post office was robbed in the Washington area, but yesterday, in what appears to be an odd coincidence, two such incidents took place: an attempted robbery in Montgomery County and a robbery in Prince George's County.]]></description><author> Allison Klein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open Spaces, Hip Places]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5374-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5374-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Montgomery County is like the tale of the two Christmas tree farms.]]></description><author> David Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Home Buyers, a Lesson in the Price of Popularity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1191-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1191-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Covet a cute 1940s brick Cape Cod house in Bethesda with loads of original detail, from crown molding to built-in shelves to crystal doorknobs? Plan to pony up at least $500,000. But move 13 miles east to University Park, and a nearly identical solidly built Cape may cost as much as $150,000 less.]]></description><author> Barbara Ruben</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Council Mulls Tax Relief's Scope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2455-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2455-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Montgomery County Council is ready to give residents broad property tax relief next year by cutting tens of millions of dollars from County Executive Douglas M. Duncan's proposed budget.]]></description><author> Tim Craig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search For Md. Vendor Persists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64475-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64475-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The search continued yesterday for a 25-year-old Mexican immigrant who was abducted from a Wheaton street corner while selling flowers Sunday afternoon, amid indications that she knew the man who took her.]]></description><author> Nancy Trejos</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Johnson Capitulates on Prince George's Tax Cap]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63969-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63969-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[County Executive Jack B. Johnson spent much of his first year in office attempting to build support for rolling back, if not repealing, the county's property taxes.]]></description><author> Ovetta Wiggins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Md., Deaths and Hard Work Propelled Teen Driving Bills]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61370-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61370-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Head ducked deferentially, Del. William A. Bronrott scurried across the expansive floor of the House of Delegates, searching out allies while the clerk droned on in listing dozens of the more than 2,600 bills before the Maryland General Assembly.]]></description><author> David Snyder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Enrolls Business Model]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59627-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59627-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Ask 9-year-old Dayna Gager how she's doing in spelling and she'll pull out a thick, black binder.]]></description><author> Lori Aratani</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatening Notes Found At School in Gaithersburg]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57796-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57796-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Montgomery County police are investigating two threatening notes that have appeared at Montgomery Village Middle School in Gaithersburg in recent weeks.]]></description><author> Lori Aratani</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Weighs Sprinkler Retrofitting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57528-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57528-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Montgomery County officials announced yesterday they will push to require that older high-rise apartment buildings in the county be equipped with sprinkler systems, a measure they believe would help prevent a repeat of Thursday's deadly high-rise fire in Silver Spring.]]></description><author> Tim Craig  and Jennifer Lenhart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriott to Close Md. Call Center]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55139-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55139-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Marriott International Inc. said yesterday it will close a call center in Gaithersburg next month, eliminating 160 local jobs, as more and more customers make hotel reservations online.]]></description><author> Neil Irwin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Man Gets Life for Murder Behind School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55081-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55081-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/montgomery</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Joseph N. Bellamy, a Gaithersburg man responsible for a string of assaults and robberies, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for the 2003 murder of a 21-year-old man behind Brown Station Elementary School.]]></description><author> Nancy Trejos</author></item></channel></rss>