1. Welcome back, Patchers! We hope you enjoyed your weekend. Today's weather is looking quite promising if you don't mind the cold. It's supposed to be sunny throughout the day, with a high of 46 degrees.
2. Councilmember Hans Reimer will be holding a "Solutions Forum" in the Richard Montgomery High School cafeteria tonight at 7. He will be discussing what was the County Council's accomplishments in 2011 and items on his agenda for the next year.
3. Be sure to enter Patch's Deck the Halls contest. Your decorating could net $100,000 to our schools. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to win a $100,000 gift to the Montgomery County Public Schools.
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4. In case you missed it: Wootton High School's varsity hockey team won the first North Potomac-Darnestown Patch Game of the Week poll for its Dec. 16 game against Whitman.
5. On this day in history: Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre in 1913.
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