Wednesday, November 21, 2012
If you drink and drive, you will pay the price, police say.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Law enforcement will be out in force in the DC suburbs of Maryland Thanksgiving week, conducting sobriety checkpoints and checking for seatbelt usage. The Maryland-National Capital Park Police will be participating with other law enforcement agencies throughout the Washington, DC, area for the Checkpoint Strikeforce Program from Nov. 21-25. The Checkpoint Strikeforce Program aims to provide education to the public about the dangers and consequences of impaired driving. The focus of this campaign will be “belts and booze” and officers will be watching for people who are not properly restrained or who are driving impaired, park police said in a press release. The program's goal is to have zero deaths from impaired driving on DC area …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
A crashed car in front of the high school is a visual warning against drinking and driving.
Homecoming Week is a time of celebration for many county high schools, and Walter Johnson is no exception. Spirit Week is in full swing at WJ, and the festivities will culminate with a homecoming football game against Winston Churchill High School Friday and a homecoming dance Saturday. This week, classes are decorating their hallways to coincide with the "Dance Through the Decades" homecoming theme. But parents and administrators also want to remind students to make responsible decisions during the festive time of year, according to Shelly McGill, WJ PTSA health and safety committee chairwoman. A crashed car is once again stationed in front of the school -- as it has been for the past several years during homecoming and prom -- to remind …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Underage drinking parties are on the rise throughout the county, according to police—and parents may be partially to blame.
It’s not just kids that need alcohol education on the hazards of underage drinking. It’s parents, too. Underage drinking parties, many of them parent-hosted, are on the rise throughout the county, according to a Gazette report released Wednesday. At a Jan. 26 press conference, Montgomery County Police displayed stacks of kegs and 24-packs of beer seized from underage drinking parties in the county. A task force of local police agencies busted 23 underage drinking parties and issued 239 alcohol citations to youth in possession of or providing alcohol, between Nov. 16 and Jan. 7, said Capt. Thomas Didone of the Montgomery County Police Department. Six underage drivers in violation of alcohol restrictions were also arrested, The Gazette …
Lynne A
1:47 pm on Sunday, February 12, 2012
"Many years ago, when my now adult children were in high school, a friends home was visited by law enforcement. This was an affluent subdivision where life was quiet. When the police asked my friends husband if there were kids drinking in the house, he explained that his daughter had some friends over and everything was under control, which it was. He proceeded to explain that perhaps their … more ›