Taste of Bethesda Draws Crowds
Crowds lined the streets in Bethesda’s Woodmont Triangle on Saturday for the 32nd annual food and music festival “Taste of Bethesda.”
Maryam Shahzad
Maryam is a reporter with Montgomery Community Media. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. Previously, she was an intern with myMCM. She can be reached at mshahzad@mymcmedia.org or on Twitter @maryam_mcm.
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