PatchCast March 17: Lululemon Reward Fund Grows/School System Faces Possible Fine/Water Tower to be Repainted

Here's what happened in the towns around you over the last 24 hours. Brought to you by our team of editors, reporters, photographers and videographers.

• : The reward fund for information leading to an arrest in relation to has risen to over $143,000.
• : In unveiling his fiscal 2012 operating budget proposal on Tuesday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett did what he said he would: The $4.35 billion spending plan does not include any increase in county aid for the 144,000-student school system.
• : The Crossway Community organization aims to encourage love, hope and determination among the families they encounter.
• : Delores Culmer, a police officer assigned to the 4th district, was charged in federal court yesterday with using police databases to help her boyfriend, a suspected drug trafficker.
• : Germantown’s 33-year old “Earthoid” Water Tower is in for a makeover and a decision on the contractor will be made this week.