Website: Bethesda The No. 2 ‘Snobbiest’ Small City In America – The latest city ranking list from real estate website Movoto uses media home prices, household income, college degree rates, private school numbers and fast food restaurant numbers to decide which is the “snobbiest” small city in the U.S. Bethesda comes in No. 2, Rockville in a “tie” for No. 8. [Movoto]
Youth Soccer League Sues BOE Over Field Selection Process – The MSI youth soccer league is suing the Board of Education over its bidding process for three high school turf fields around the county. According to MSI, officials part of the school system’s process were biased in favor of other leagues because of personal connections and because the leagues chosen represented wealthier communities. [Bethesda Magazine]
British Man Gets Year In Prison For Ripping Off Bethesda Company – Darren Oliver Raymond Charles Defoe, 40, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for ripping off $275,000 in rented equipment from Bethesda film production company Visual Edge Productions. Defoe and a co-defendant pleaded guilty to providing bogus insurance information before taking the rented cameras, lenses, tripods and batteries straight to Dulles Airport and on a plane back to the United Kingdom. [The Gazette]
