2015, 2016 MDDC News Organization of the Year! Celebrating 161 years of service! Vol. 163, No. 8 • 50¢ SINCE 1855 August 17 - August 23, 2017 TODAY’S GAS Local Man Leads Alt-Right PRICE Matthew Heimbach grew up in MoCo and helped organize the march in Charlottesville $2.36 per gallon Last Week Raised locally, Heimbach at- Monocacy elementary school. They surprised me,” Said Dr. John C. $2.38 per gallon By Matt Hooke @matth255 tended Poolesville High School have both disowned Heimbach for Thompson one of Heimbach’s for- where he said he attempted to create his white nationalist views. mer professors at Montgomery Col- A month ago Matthew Heimbach, the Chair- a white student group. “My family due to my politics lege. $2.28per gallon man of the Traditionalist Workers “I got several hundred students has totally cut me off. They haven’t “He struck me as someone who A year ago Party (a White Nationalist organiza- to sign on to my paper to do it. The seen my two sons, and I haven’t spo- cowered easily. However, he was hit- $2.13 per gallon tion), watched as anti-fascist principal trashed it. I emailed every ken to them in many years,” said He- ting a woman so maybe he felt counter-protesters showered his fol- teacher to get a sponsor none of them imbach. “They didn’t raise me to brave,” the history professor added. AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF lowers in bleach and urine in Char- UNLEADED REGULAR GAS IN responded; it must have been an ad- think like this. I understand their de- Before those two incidents, the MARYLAND/D.C. METRO AREA lottesville on Friday. His group was ministrative decision,” he said of his cision, I respect it, but I stick with my 26-year-old had a long history with ACCORDING TO AAA in Charlottesville as part of the efforts. convictions because I believe this is the White Nationalist movement. He “Unite the Right” rally that brought After graduating, he attended what is right.” attempted to create a white student INSIDE together dozens of alt-right groups Montgomery College and went on to Heimbach first gained national group at Poolesville High School. together to protest the removal of the Towson University. His parents, Karl attention when he founded the White According to Thompson, he would Robert E. Lee Statue from Emanci- and Margret Heimbach, are di- Student Union at majority-White often display racist paraphernalia in pation Park. vorced. Karl was the athletic director Towson University in 2012. Then class, including a laptop sticker read- Editor’s Heimbach, who helped orga- at Magruder High School, before last year police arrested him at a ing “If I knew all the trouble they nized the rally said the city govern- moving to Pennsylvania to work as Trump rally after he shoved a black Notebook ment was to blame for the violence in the athletic director at Columbia woman protester. See “Local man” Charlottesville. High School. Margret is a teacher at “The violence he committed page 8 by Brian J. Karem Flower Branch improves one year after fatal fire Branch Apartments. “I know some Got to move By Neal Earley @neal_earley changes have been made. There’s a The president stumbles new manager, he’s been very respon- badly in dealing with alt-right A year after the fire that killed sive to us…so far from what I heard rioters and the fallout from seven at the Flower Branch Apart- from other tenants who have commu- Charlottesville ments in Silver Spring, things are nicated with me, he has been address- Page 4 steadily improving according to ten- ing their concerns.” ants, activists and politicians. The Flower Branch Tenant Asso- Last August’s fire brought atten- ciation was created a few weeks ago, tion to a countywide problem with to give the renters at Flower Branch an code-enforcement at rental properties organized voice that they did not have as the tragedy revealed the harsh living before. During the County’s last in- conditions in which tenants were liv- spection of the apartment complex, in- ing. Since the fire, according to ten- spectors found 860 code violations ants, things have steadily improved ranging from infestations of rodents, with stricter enforcement from the roaches and bedbugs to ceiling holes, County and more attention from the water leaks, chipped paint, broken management company. cabinets and doors, mold, mildew and “I’ve heard there are still issues broken smoke detectors. going on,” said Felicia Prospere, vice FILE PHOTO president of the Flower Branch Tenant See “Flower Branch,” This fire at Flower Branch apartments last year cost seven people their lives. ‘Skinned Association and resident at Flower page 8 Inspectors and tenants say conditions are better one year later. Washington shows some promise against Baltimore Federal judge rules in favor of MCPS in religion case but fall to the Ravens in a Disabilities Education Act, MCPS is same basis as it provides to all other said the proposed individualized edu- pre-season game. By Kathleen Stubbs @kathleenstubbs3 providing a free and public education students with disabilities,” Agee said cation program (IEP), or special plan Page 21 (FAPE) for the plaintiff’s child M.L., in his opinion. “It does not provide re- created by the school for a student A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of who was born with Down Syndrome. ligious and cultural instruction to its with a disability, did not meet his Appeals judge affirmed a U.S. Dis- The parents, Rabbi Akiva Leiman and students with or without disabilities needs because they excluded cultural trict Court judge’s decision that reli- Shani Leiman, had alleged that the and has no duty under the IDEA to ad- practices of Orthodox Judaism. gion is not one of the educational proposed plan for M.L.’s education minister such instruction to M.L.” “In their request for mediation needs that Montgomery County Pub- was inadequate because it did not in- The Leimans in 2013 requested and a due process hearing, the Plain- lic Schools must meet by law. clude teaching practices observed in mediation within Montgomery Coun- tiffs maintained that M.L. ‘has many Judge G. Steven Agee of the U.S. M.L.’s Orthodox Jewish community. ty Public Schools and a due process Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit said “MCPS provided M.L. with hearing before the Maryland Office of See “MCPS Monday under the Individuals with equal access to an education, on the Administrative Hearings, after they page 8 2THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL AUGUST 17, 2017 EFLECTIONS The Montgomery County Sentinel, published weekly by Berlyn Inc. Publish- R ing, is a community newspaper covering Montgomery County, Maryland. Our of- fices are located at 22 W. Jefferson September 5, 1985 Street, Suite 309, Rockville, MD 20850. Founded in 1855 by Matthew Fields. All mail to: P.O. Box 1272, Rockville, MD 20849-1272. Subscription Rates for The Cross burned in front of police department Montgomery County Sentinel – Weekly by mail: $40.00 per year & $26.50 for Se- nior Citizens. (USPS) 361-100. Each week The Sentinel visits a said. front of the building shortly be- could think of a reason for choos- memorable story from its archives. The burning was the first of fore the fire was set, according to ing the station as a burning site. Bernard Kapiloff its kind in the county since 1983 the report. “To me it’s a warning of PUBLISHER E MERITUS A fire in the shape of a cross when a flaming wooden cross The description of the sus- some kind,” Williams said. “They Lynn G. Kapiloff burned on the front lawn of the was found on Colesville Road in pect does not fit those of the sus- wanted it to be embarrassing. The CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ Wheaton-Glenmont Police Sta- Silver Spring, Williams said. pects in the 1983 Silver Spring burned grass is going to leave a PUBLISHER tion early last Thursday morning. The fire, which occurred at burning, Williams said. mark for awhile.” [email protected] The four-foot cross did not 1:10 a.m., was caused by a “flam- It is unusual for someone to The station houses the police Mark Kapiloff appear to be the work of the Ku mable liquid” poured on the Ran- be walking near the station so late Youth Division and has approxi- ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Klux Klan, according to Sgt. dolph Road station’s front lawn, at night, Williams said. The sta- mately 175 officers assigned to it, [email protected] Richard Williams of the police according to a police incident re- tion is within 30 yards of Ran- according to Main. She said there Community Relations Division. port. dolph Road’s intersection with were fewer than 22 officers work- EDITORIAL “It looked like they were im- A white man, between the Georgia Avenue, a busy thor- ing at the station the night of the Brian J. Karem itating the Klan. But the Klan ages of 30 and 40, and of slim oughfare, even late at night. burning. EXECUTIVE EDITOR only uses upright crosses,” he build was spotted walking in Neither Williams said they [email protected] Brandy L. Simms SPORTS EDITOR NEWS [email protected] MARK ROBINSON Write us [email protected] Leggett waives fees on Ride On Extra bus CITY EDITOR Dan Hibbert, the division chief these buses can kind of fill that VINCENT SHERRY By Neal Earley The Montgomery County [email protected] of transit services for the Mont- gap,” Hibbert said of Ride On Extra.