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Week in Review: August 29 - September 2

The first week of school included hurricane recovery and new discoveries

Posted Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:18 am ET|Updated Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:21 am ET

We began the week with the hurricane Irene, which included, and worries about.

Over the week, Patch posted several of our conversation with the new of Montgomery County Public , .

There was a great end of summer recipe from our own Cooking in Real Time columnist.

This week's Mom in the Middle columnist felt “” over the previous week and thankful that we all came out all right.

We shared in the the beginning of school with a visit to a Moms' celebration of their annual and found a great location on the Potomac filled with .

We learned how patriotic Darnestown is with a holiday mystery solved in this week's “” feature.

Then the end of the week brought the joys of High School Football when our local sports writer psyched us up forand then brought us .

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