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CHEVY CHASE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forbright Bank, a nationwide bank focused on decarbonization, today announced the launch of a new high-yield Certificate of Deposit (CD) to help Americans earn more and accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. Forbright’s 5.25% APY* on a 12-month term CD is available nationwide, and this FDIC-insured product helps Americans take a high-impact step to living more sustainably.

The online process to open Forbright's CD takes just a few minutes at https://open.forbrightbank.com. It requires a minimum account balance of $1,000. To open an account, people will need a valid form of identification, social security number, current residential address, email address, bank account funding information, and be at least 18 years of age.

Forbright Bank is fully mission-aligned around sustainability and decarbonization. It was the seventh U.S. bank to become a signatory to the U.N. Principles for Responsible Banking. By 2025, more than half of the Bank’s portfolio will go toward clean energy projects and sustainable businesses. Recently, the Bank lead financing for two solar parks in Puerto Rico to support the island’s goal of transitioning 40% of its energy to renewable sources. And Forbright Inc’s Green Bond resulted in nearly 12,000 metric tons of estimated annual carbon equivalent emissions avoided last year.

In the year ahead, Forbright will continue to expand on its role as a leader in the sustainable finance space. It will launch additional products, including decarbonization-linked deposit accounts that allow Americans to ensure their money goes to clean energy sources like solar, wind power, or high efficiency building upgrades; continue to lead financing for the visionary companies, investors, and innovators taking action to accelerate the drive toward nationwide net-zero carbon emissions; and continue its work to provide constructive and creative financing solutions to a network of borrowers nationwide.

APY and FDIC Disclosure

*Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is accurate as of 03/2/2023. Fees may reduce earnings. Limited time offer and subject to change at any time without notice. Minimum opening deposit of $1,000 is required to earn the APY. The APY on all certificates assumes that principal and interest will remain on deposit until maturity. A penalty may be imposed for early withdrawal. FDIC insured up to the FDIC established limits. Visit FDIC.gov for more information.

Forward Looking Statements:

This news release contains estimates and forward-looking statements related to Forbright’s product initiatives. The estimates and forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and do not guarantee future performance, as actual results or developments may be substantially different from the expectations described in the forward-looking statements.

About Forbright Bank:

Forbright Bank (www.forbrightbank.com), Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender, is a full-service bank, lender, and asset manager taking action to decarbonize the economy. Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Forbright is committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable, clean energy economy by financing the companies, investors, and innovators driving that change. With approximately $9 billion of owned and managed assets, the Bank provides specialty lending and banking services to clients across the United States.

The Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers is made up of seven members elected by residents of the village. Four seats are up for election.

CHEVY CHASE, MD — Four seats on the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers are up for election this spring. Members of the board serve staggered two-year terms and serve without pay.

The current board members whose terms expire in June and who will be allowed to run again are Gary Crockett, Lou Morsberger, Linda Willard and David Winstead.

Any resident of Chevy Chase Village may run for a seat on the Board of Managers as long as they are a qualified voter in Montgomery County, have lived in Chevy Chase Village for at least one year prior to the election, and file a Certificate of Candidacy and Financial Disclosure Statement.

If the number of qualified candidates equals the number of available seats, the candidates will be declared elected at the Board of Managers' annual meeting on Monday, April 17.

If the number of candidates exceeds the number of available seats, a contested election will be conducted with ballots mailed to all registered voters.

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The Chevy Chase Village Election Supervisors oversee village elections, including receiving nominations to serve on the Board of Managers. Residents interested in running for a seat should contact Election Supervisors Chair Mary Sheehan by email at msheehan246@aol.com.

To qualify as a candidate, a resident, including sitting Board of Managers members, must submit a completed Certificate of Candidacy, along with a Financial Disclosure Statement, by March 15. Upon receiving both completed forms, the Village Manager will submit the Financial Disclosure Statement to the Village Ethics Commission, which will review the form within 10 days of filing for compliance with the provisions of the Public Ethics Code.

Candidates will not be certified to appear on the ballot until their Certificate of Candidacy and Financial Disclosure Statement have been reviewed and determined to be filed in proper form.

Certificate of Candidacy and Financial Disclosure Statement forms are available at the Village office, or by email request to the Village Manager, Shana Davis-Cook, at shana.davis-cook@montgomerycountymd.gov, or on the Chevy Chase Village website by clicking on “Board of Managers Elections” under Quick Links on the homepage.

Chevy Chase Village is a Maryland municipality that operates under a council-manager form of government. The Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers is made up of seven members elected by residents of the village.

The Board of Managers passes local laws, adopts annual operating and capital budgets, sets property tax rates, and oversees the provision of services to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the village’s residents.

The board holds public meetings at least once a month to conduct government business and to receive reports from village commissions, committees and staff.

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Linda Pastan, a poet who drew inspiration from seemingly ordinary events — a children’s carpool, a high school reunion, the hurried sunset of a late fall evening — and distilled them into lines of concentrated beauty, died Jan. 30 at her home in Chevy Chase, Md. She was 90.

The cause was complications following cancer surgery, said her daughter, Rachel Pastan. Ms. Pastan, who had previously lived in Potomac, served from 1991 to 1995 as Maryland’s poet laureate.

Ms. Pastan began writing in adolescence and, by her senior year at Radcliffe College, had shown enough promise to win a collegiate poetry contest sponsored by Mademoiselle magazine. A young Sylvia Plath placed second.

She embarked on her career relatively late, however, publishing her first poetry collection — “A Perfect Circle of Sun” (1971) — the year before she turned 40. Her embrace of professional writing marked the end of a decade that she spent in the throes of an affliction she described as “the perfectly polished floor syndrome.”

“I didn’t think, then, that I could be the right kind of wife and mother and keep pursuing something as important to me as poetry always has been,” Ms. Pastan told Washingtonian magazine in 1996. “I think now that I was wrong. And a young woman probably wouldn’t make that mistake today.”

Over the next half-century — her most recent book, “Almost an Elegy,” was published last year — Ms. Pastan produced roughly a score of poetry collections. Two of her volumes, “PM/AM” (1982) and “Carnival Evening” (1998), were finalists for the National Book Award.

In 2003, she received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which is accompanied by an award of $100,000 and is regarded as one of the most prestigious honors in poetry. Acclaimed for their luminescent simplicity, her works were widely anthologized and earned comparisons to the works of the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson.

Throughout her writing career, Ms. Pastan experienced what she described as an inescapable “impulse to condense.” She at times drew from biblical sources, particularly the figure of Eve, as well as the epics of Homer. But she was perhaps best known for poems that captured in short, spare lines the unnoticed emotional freight in everyday occurrences. She wrote in her poem “Meditation by the Stove”:

I have banked the fires

into a small but steady blaze

here in the kitchen

where the dough has a life of its own,

breathing under its damp cloth

like a sleeping child;

where the real child plays under the table,

pretending the tablecloth is a tent,

practicing departures; where a dim

brown bird dazzled by light

has flown into the windowpane

and lies stunned on the pavement —

it was never simple, even for birds,

this business of nests.

Ms. Pastan was regarded as a master of metaphor. A fight between father and son made her into a “no man’s land.” In a poem about teaching her daughter to ride a bicycle, she compared the young girl’s hair, flapping behind in the wind, to a “handkerchief waving / goodbye.”

Her “vision is focused, rather than sweeping, more tentative than ambitious,” poet Tina Barr wrote in a review of “Carnival Evening” published in 1998 in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. “While Pastan’s work is simple rather than technically complex, domestic rather than adventuresome … it yields quiet rewards.”

A carpool prompted Ms. Pastan to contemplate her children’s mortality, a minor surgery and gathering of old classmates her own. She wrote in the poem “25th High School Reunion”:

We come to hear the endings

of all the stories

in our anthology

of false starts:

how the girl who seemed

as hard as nails

was hammered

into shape;

how the athletes ran

out of races;

how under the skin

our skulls rise

to the surface

like rocks in the bed

of a drying stream.

Look! We have all

turned into

ourselves.

As Maryland’s poet laureate, Ms. Pastan declined to write official poems for grand occasions. Her goal, she told The Washington Post at the time, was “just to make poetry a little more visible to people, so they’ll perhaps be tempted to take a chance and read some themselves.”

Linda B Olenik — her middle initial, with no period, stood for nothing — was born in the Bronx on May 27, 1932, and spent the later years of her childhood in Armonk, in New York’s Westchester County. Her father, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, became a surgeon. Her mother was a homemaker, sometimes working in his medical office.

An only child, Ms. Pastan recalled a lonely youth in which books at times offered her only companionship. She wrote in the poem “The English Novel”:

In The English Novel, where I spent my girlhood,

I used to think chilblains were a kind of biscuit,

and everything was always pearled with fog —

the moors with their purpling heather

and the beveled windows where the heroines,

my sisters, waited for heroes …

Ms. Pastan was 12 when she submitted her first poems to the New Yorker, a magazine that along the Atlantic and the Paris Review would years later regularly publish her works.

She was married in 1953 and received a bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe the following year, then a master’s degree in library science from Simmons University in Boston in 1955 and a master’s degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., in 1958.

“Brandeis had a fund that paid for babysitters and allowed you to go part time, but then my husband got an internship at Yale, which had no part-time studies and no babysitter fund, so I stopped school,” Ms. Pastan recalled to The Post. “I had another baby, and I stopped writing. I was into the whole ’50s thing, kids and the clean floor bit. I was unhappy because I knew what I should be doing.”

Ms. Pastan ultimately returned to writing, her daughter said, with the strong encouragement of her husband. She began writing every day, working around her children’s nap and school schedules.

Survivors include her husband of 69 years, Ira Pastan of Chevy Chase; her daughter, a novelist, of Swarthmore, Pa.; two sons, Stephen Pastan of Atlanta and Peter Pastan of Washington; seven grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

Ms. Pastan said she did not wait for literary inspiration to strike her, but rather “coaxed” it from its hiding place by the simple act of sitting down at her desk and working. Asked if she had advice for aspiring writers, she implored them not to be discouraged by rejection.

“All poets get rejected, even the most famous and honored,” she told Washingtonian. “I tell young poets one trick I’ve learned. For each group of poems you send out, have an envelope ready on your desk to resubmit those poems. Then, when they come back, don’t leave them sitting around on your desk; send them right back out into the world.”

Paul Stanley of KISS will show his fine art, including handpainted guitars, in appearances in Bethesda and Tysons on Friday and Saturday.

|Updated Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 6:34 am ET

BETHESDA/TYSONS — KISS frontman Paul Stanley will be appearing in person at the Westworth Gallery at both Westfield Montgomery Mall and Tysons Galleria this week to promote his original works of art.

Stanley, who designed and created the iconic KISS emblem, one of the most recognized rock logos, will be appearing at the Wentworth Gallery at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda on Friday, Feb. 24 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Saturday, Feb. 25, he will be appearing from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Wentworth Gallery at Tysons Galleria in McLean.

The public will get a chance to view and purchase Stanley's works at both exhibits. Westworth Gallery has nine locations across the U.S.

“Paul’s artwork really connects with people. In particular, his unique use of colors elicits strong emotions. It is extremely rare to sell an entire gallery of art during a show, but Paul does it regularly. He has become an art phenom,” Christian O’Mahony, principal of Wentworth Gallery, said in a statement.

Since the artist's last exhibit over four years ago, Stanley has created new original paintings, hand painted signature Paul Stanley Ibanez guitars, mixed media originals, and limited-edition artworks including new works on metal, the gallery said in a news release.

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Several of the pieces on display come from the Black Series that was originally commissioned in 2020 for museum exhibition. COVID-19 canceled that exhibition, so the series will show up at the gallery instead.

"With the Black Series, Stanley pushes the boundaries of his art by starting with a black canvas and creating vibrance and emotion with his trademark bright colors," Wentworth said.

As for Stanley as a music artist, KISS plans to continue its "End of the Road" farewell tour in April and possibly play its final show as a band later this year.

Winners of the Bethesda Essay and Short Story Contest and the Bethesda Poetry Contest will be honored at ceremonies on March 9 and 10.

BETHESDA, MD — The Bethesda Urban Partnership will host the Local Writer’s Showcase March 9-10, honoring the winners of the annual Bethesda Essay and Short Story Contest and the Bethesda Poetry Contest. Both ceremonies are free and open to the public.

The Annual Bethesda Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at The Writer’s Center, at 4508 Walsh Street in downtown Bethesda. All of the winners will read their original poems.

This year’s judge for the contest is award-winning poet Gabriella Fee, who received the Elizabeth K. Moser Fund for Poetry Studies Fellowship in 2021 and the Dr. Benjamin J. Sankey Fellowship in Poetry in 2022. Guest poets E. Ethelbert Miller, Adam Chiles and KaNikki Jakarta will read their poetry along with the winners.

The Essay and Short Story Contest Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, at 7400 Wisconsin Avenue.

Essays were judged by Neisha-Anne Green, director of the Writing Center at American University; author and novelist Aaron Hamburger; and bilingual writer and George Washington University Professor Ofelia Montelongo. Short stories were selected by writers Carrie Callaghan, Melanie Hatter, Mohini Malhotra, Zach Powers, Julia Tagliare and Claudia Wair.

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More than 700 pieces were submitted to this year’s Poetry, Essay and Short Story Contests as writers competed for a chance to win up to $500, a free class and membership to The Writer’s Center and have their work published in the July/August issue of Bethesda Magazine. A total of $5,350 in prize money will be awarded to the 37 winners from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The 2023 Local Writer’s Showcase is produced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and sponsored by MoCo 360 and The Writer’s Center. Support is also provided by The Trawick Foundation.

Here are this year’s winners:

Essay Winners

High School Essay Winners

Short Story Winners

High School Short Story Winners

Poetry Winners

High School Poetry Winners

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