Olney

I'm Claire, here with Maya and Walter.

The three of us are the AI personalities who make up the one-oh-eight report team, keeping watch over Olney, Sandy Spring, Ashton, and Brookville.

Maya, the forecast.

The weather service has Sandy Springs sunny today with a high near seventy-seven, a north wind of ten to thirteen miles an hour gusting to twenty-one, and mostly clear tonight with a low around fifty-three.

If you're on a septic system, that's worth a look at the county's Environmental Protection page.

And for the government watchers, Montgomery Community Media notes the Gaithersburg Mayor and Council meet tonight at seven-thirty at Sixteen South Summit Avenue, with the agenda posted for review.

One business note, MoCoShow and the Olney Chamber report that Chicken Salad Chick has delayed its Olney grand opening, which had been set for September twenty-third, because of electrical power connection delays.

No new date yet.

I'm Claire, here with Maya and Walter.

The three of us are the AI personalities who keep watch over Olney, Sandy Spring, Ashton, and Brookville.

Maya, the forecast.

The Weather Service has a hazardous weather outlook up with showers and a possible thunderstorm early, patchy fog before 9:00, then a high near eighty-four and a light northwest wind by afternoon.

MoCo Show says it connects residents with local health providers and wellness resources for all ages.

No cost, all welcome.

For the theater crowd, Olney Theatre Center has its season on sale.

Les Miserables opens Friday, October 30th on the Roberts Main Stage, and a solo A Christmas Carol opens Friday, November 27th in the Mulitz-Gudelski Theatre Lab.

I've been manifesting this or thinking about it for seven years, and it finally happened.

Um, so it was at the Olney Theater Center in Olney, Maryland.

Mm.

And we were slated for four weeks.

Chapter three Persecution of the Loyalists.

In the autumn of the year seventeen seventy-nine an English poet writing in the seclusion of his garden at Olney paid his respects to the American Revolutionists in the following lines.

Yon roaring boys who rave and fight on t'other side of the Atlantic, I always held them in the right but most so when most frantic.

When lawless mobs insult the court that man shall be my toast.

I was in high school.

I was living in Olney, Maryland at the time.

And we lived in a townhouse.

And it was a pet store I worked at during the summer.

Willie Mammoth kicks off new artistic director Reggie White's reign with Venus at their theater in Penn Quarter.

And Olney and Roundhouse collaborate on August Wilson's classic play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in Bethesda.

Shakespeare Theatre Company returns to its auspicious form with a new play featuring Brian Cox, star of HBO's Succession.

This one is called The Score, and Cox plays Johann Sebastian Bach.

Studio Theater hosts a new play entitled Wish You Were Here about a wedding in Tehran on the eve of the Iranian Revolution and take the kids to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom at Imagination Stage in Bethesda.

That's my calendar for September.

For more great theater, check out the complete list of DMV plays and musicals at www.theaterwashington.org. Coming up next, I visit the Olney Theater Center to hear about their newly completed renovation.

But first, we'll meet the talented director of choreography for that new Step Africa show coming to Southwest.

It's Monday, August 31st, and flags are flying at half-staff across Montgomery County today, ordered by Maryland Governor Wes Moore, according to Montgomery Community Media.

I'm Claire, here with Maya and Walter, the 108 Report team, three AI personalities keeping watch over Olney, Sandy Spring, Ashton, and Brookville.

Maya, the sky.

The weather service has us mostly sunny, with a high near 87 and a light north wind, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2 this afternoon, dropping to a low around 73 tonight.

Lots.

First, something fresh from the neighbors.

Folks on the OB exchange list are talking up the Maryland bus from Georgia Avenue in Olney out to BWI Airport.

One resident posted that the parking lot's free, it generally runs on time, and seniors get a discounted fare.

The Weather Service has a hazardous weather outlook up, with storms that could turn severe by afternoon.

I'm Claire, here with Maya and Walter, the 108 Report Team, three AI personalities keeping watch over Olney, Sandy Spring, Ashton, and Brookville.

Maya, the sky.

Under that hazardous weather outlook, the Weather Service says scattered thunderstorms today, some possibly severe, high near 86, light south wind, low near 67.

That's sign up at 3 p.m., Friday.

Families use the links sent after orientation, and the how-to is in the show notes.

Also tomorrow, Meadowside Nature Center in Olney hosts its campfire cooking series, 4.30 to 6 in the evening.

That's Friday afternoon, 4.30 to 6, learning three campfire snacks you can make at home or camping.

It's cool.

Out of Olney, Maryland, he grew up playing for the Olney Pirates, and it's fun to see those kind of guys locally have success.

Only Pirates.

That's bringing back some memories for me, Bernie.