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PatchCast March 9: Bag Fee Proposed/Couple Marries/Board Considers New Soccer Fields

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  • : Darnestown Patch spoke to shoppers at Harris Teeter in Darnestown about a proposed paper and plastic shopping bag tax. Shoppers were divided, some supporting the tax as a way to change consumer behavior and others against government adding another tax.
  • : The Board of Education voted 6-2 on Tuesday to allow Montgomery County to lease the 20-acre property on Brickyard Road in Potomac to potentially build soccer fields.
  • : Deepak Sharma and Spencer Bodian, both students at Northwood High School, testified Tuesday afternoon in Annapolis to support of the Maryland Bag Fee Bill.
  • : Dalia and German Osorto of Rockville renewed their wedding vows on Sunday afternoon in the chapel at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville.


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