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Five Things You Need to Know: August 23

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Here are your five things to know for Tuesday, Aug. 23

1. School is starting for Montgomery County students in less than a week and our mom columnist Diane Bartz those wonderful mornings before school.

2. It's going to be gorgeous tomorrow with lots of sun and the temperature in the low 80s. Get out and play.

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3. There were due to storms Sunday and, interestingly, on that morning our political columnist Richard Parsons Pepco. I think he has special columnist powers.

4. Today is the sixth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic.

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5. On this date in 1927, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed.


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