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Week in Review: August 22-26

Earthquakes and hurricanes make for an exciting week

What a week! This week we may need a reminder of anything that happened early in the week.

On Monday, we learned about how the Middle School is going  and saw how the new entrance looks.

We also found out that North Potomac resident, is facing more days in custody in connection with the missing Frederick woman in Aruba. A witness stepped forward with new information.

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The popular weekly humor column, Mom in the Middle, explored the joys and pain of the end of summer vacation for those reentering school this coming week in a piece titled “”

We heard all about and his approach to keeping his team focused and disciplined.

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Then on Tuesday afternoon, an earthquake shook the east coast. We explored what it and people as far north as New York and as far south as the Carolinas . We brought you news of

Things got back to normal on Wednesday with stories about the, an entrpenurial thrift bussiness, ,  and the fate of the .

By Wednesday evening, we were back to disaster mode with stories of the as it made its way up the east coast. , the path the storm would take, and how locals are and .

Patch put up a live blog to have locals and area patch editors update each other on what is going on where they are during the storm overnight last night.

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