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Longtime Resident, Busy Attorney Gears Up for Greater Kentlands — and Gaithersburg — Involvement

November 16, 2011
By Karen OKeefe
Longtime Resident, Busy Attorney Gears Up for Greater Kentlands — and Gaithersburg — Involvement

Tim Clarke is an attorney, a recently appointed member of the City of Gaithersburg Board of Supervisors of Elections, and a just-elected member of the Kentlands Citizens Assembly Board of Trustees. He is also a busy solo-practice attorney, but Clarke has decided that the time has come to do more. He has been married...
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Three Events to Showcase Poet Michele Wolf in September

August 19, 2011
By Karen OKeefe
Three Events to Showcase Poet Michele Wolf in September

UPDATED Lakelands resident Michele Wolf is an editor, a teacher, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister and an award-winning, widely published poet. Not in that order. “Poet” is much closer to the top of the list. Wife and mother are up there too. Possibly the three stand together. I know that from...
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QOP Resident Makes Local Hospital Home

February 2, 2011
By Karen OKeefe
QOP Resident Makes Local Hospital Home

Born, raised, educated and in the midst of a satisfying and challenging career in health care in Colorado, Shelly Leyba surprised everyone in her family and back in her hometown three years ago when she packed up and moved to Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Md. — and more recently to Quince Orchard Park. Possibly she herself...
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FOX 5′s Sue Palka: Still Going Strong After 25 Years

October 20, 2010
By Karen OKeefe
FOX 5′s Sue Palka: Still Going Strong After 25 Years

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards. … They try to do more … in order to have more, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what...
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