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Pony swim, auction resume at Virginia's Chincoteague Island after hiatus 02/26/2022 03:38pm • CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. — The famed ponies of Virginia’s Chincoteague Island will be back in the spotlight this summer after events were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that the Chincoteague Pony Penning and auction will return in July. For the past Maryland local school boards will get say on mask policies 02/25/2022 09:30pm • Maryland lawmakers voted in favor of a plan that returns control over mask policies in schools to local boards of education. The General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review (AELR), voted 17-1 to approve Tuesday's decision by the State Board of Education Fairfax Co. schools announces plans to make masks optional March 1 02/25/2022 06:54pm • The superintendent of Virginia's largest school system said in a message to families Friday that parents and guardians can choose for their children to go maskless in schools and on buses beginning March 1. Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand wrote that there wouldn't be a Montgomery Co. schools changes mask requirements for new athletic season 02/25/2022 06:16pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, schools are making mask wearing optional for student-athletes and coaches during events such as practice, starting next week. Montgomery County Public Schools' athletics program detailed the policy change in a letter dated Friday, along with adjustments to quarantine Manassas mom among challengers to Youngkin's mask-optional law 02/25/2022 03:48pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A Manassas mother has joined 11 other Virginia parents in a lawsuit to stop the implementation of a new state law making masks optional i DC expects trucker caravans to arrive in area around State of the Union 02/25/2022 01:18pm • D.C. officials said Friday they expect convoys of truckers protesting COVID mandates to reach the District around President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to Congress on March 1. After noting that an anticipated convoy from Scranton, Pennsylvania, "fizzled out," D.C. Homeland Security and Prince George's Co. lifts indoor mask mandate; masks still required in schools 02/25/2022 11:09am • Prince George's County, Maryland, will lift its indoor mask mandate on Monday, Feb. 28, but is keeping its mask mandate for schools in place for now. Prince George's County has become the only jurisdiction in Maryland that has fallen into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's moderate Some Md. school systems end mask mandates. Where does Montgomery County stand? 02/25/2022 08:13am • Some school systems are ending mask mandates now that the Maryland State Board of Education said it's up to the counties to make them optional. The state's largest school system in Montgomery County is waiting, for now. Students in Howard County public schools will no longer be required to wear m Howard County schools to make indoor masking optional in March 02/24/2022 08:27pm • Students in Howard County, Maryland, will no longer be required to wear masks indoors starting March 1. The Howard County Board of Education on Thursday voted to make face coverings optional using the first condition -- at least 80% of the county 's population is fully vaccinated -- of the state Prince William schools adjusting to changes on masking 02/24/2022 02:41pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Teachers and students in Prince William County are adjusting to another new normal this week, with students having the option to attend c Virginia Dept. of Health is going to alert you to get boosted against COVID 02/24/2022 02:06pm • The Virginia Department of Health said Thursday that if you're vaccinated against the coronavirus, it might send you a voice or text message reminding you to make a booster appointment. According to VDH, the message will read: “Virginia Department of Health records indicate you are eligible for Virginia liquor stores to return to normal hours 02/24/2022 02:04pm • Drink up, Virginians. Virginia's nearly 400 state-run Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority stores will return to normal operating hours starting March 1, the authority announced in a news release Thursday. Hours have been reduced since Jan. 24, when a surge of COVID-19 cases from the omicron v Masks no longer required in Frederick Co. schools starting Friday 02/24/2022 10:22am • Face coverings will be encouraged, but no longer required, inside all public school buildings across Frederick County, Maryland, beginning Friday. But face coverings will remain mandatory on school buses due to a federal mandate, according to Frederick County Public Schools interim Superintendent Del. Norton: Capitol Police planning heightened security, but truck protest may be losing steam 02/24/2022 06:25am • A small group of vehicles, including one tractor-trailer, arrived in the D.C. area Wednesday afternoon from Scranton, Pennsylvania. (WTOP/Mike Murillo) D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said a truckers' protest, expected in the Washington area next week, may be losing some steam, but U.S. Capi Fairfax Co. judge dismisses removal petition against school board member Laura Jane Cohen 02/24/2022 06:12am • A Fairfax County, Virginia, Circuit Court judge has dismissed a removal petition, with prejudice, filed against a school board member who a group of parents alleged failed to provide in-person learning for all students during the pandemic. The recall effort to unseat Springfield school board