Week in Review: June 6 - June 12

This week, Bethesda geared up for the U.S. Open, the high-profile golf championship that will bring a quarter-million spectators to Bethesda’s Congressional Country Club next week.

Patch reported on the tournament’s on the local economy, in the restaurant community, at the tournament, and the opening this week of the 36,000 square-foot U.S. Open Many news outlets also reported this week that Tiger Woods, who initially had planned to play in the tournament, citing lingering injuries.

There was also a lot going on this week in non-Open news. We reported on a Bethesda native who was by the Seattle Mariners in Monday’s MLB draft pick. We also reported that Lululemon homicide victim Jayna Murray was the dual graduate degrees she had been working towards at the time of her murder.

In school news, controversies over a new middle school in the B-CC cluster continued. Patch reported on the first that will look at building the new school at Rock Creek Hills local park in Kensington, and concerns from the community over the site selection process persisted. Controversy also swirled around the B-CC elementary school boundary study – we reported that three of the four PTAs involved in the study any of the five redistricting options.

We had some sad news this week when a motorcycle accident near the Beltway a Kensington resident and a Hyattsville resident. And a high-profile missing person case came to a tragic end this week when the body of a missing Bethesda journalist was a suspected suicide.

The weather was once again in the news this week as temperatures soared above 100 degrees, and the at the Montgomery Mall.

Stay tuned to Patch next week for special coverage of the U.S. Open and its impact on our community.  It should be a busy news week. We’ll see you then.