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Maryland
20878® magazine began
in June of 2004 as
Kentlands Dot Us
which focused on Kentlands. We rapidly acquired both readers and
contributors from Lakelands and added both the Market Square area as well as
Lakelands to our coverage areas. As we have now added Gaithersburg city news, we
have expanded.
Kentlands®
is now registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office,
owned by the Kentlands Citizens Assembly, Inc.
Kentlands is a neo-traditional, or new urbanist, community. The community design is based on the concept that the most pleasant living environments were nineteenth century villages in which homes were grouped around a town center with shops, community buildings, and schools. New urbanism has developed architectural communities going back to this design.
Lakelands is a similar, and neighboring, community built on property which was also once owned by Otis Beal Kent. Lakelands has its own distinct character. Both communities are within walking distance of restaurants, grocery stores, and shops.
Kentlands and Lakelands were built on the estate of Otis Beall Kent. His mansion is now the cultural arts center for Gaithersburg, Maryland. The barn, which is now the Arts Barn, houses a rich center for community theater and artists' workspace as well as offices and a pleasant shop selling the works of local artists. The former barn loft is now a 99-seat theater for the performing arts. Kentlands is thought to be the largest and most successful neo-traditional project in North America.
Kentlands Dot Us
focuses primarily on
Kentlands, while
KentLakes®
adds Lakelands, and Maryland 20878® is the over-all publication with city
news and information for the area covered by the 20877 and 20878 zip codes. We thank our readers and advertisers for their interest
which has led to our expansion.
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Posted 2009
We’re pleased to announce that Maryland 20878®
writers, Graceann Macleod and M H Perry are the
recipients of an 2009 Apex Award of Excellence for
Magazine & Journal Writing. They, Jean Katter and Rita Banerji, received awards for columns written in
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Posted July 2008
M. H. Perry Is the Recipient of
The 2008 Apex Grand Award of Excellence
M. H. Perry
has been
awarded the APEX 2008 Grand Award in the category Writing
for the Feature Writing series,
How Do "Our" Spouses Cope? published in
KentLakes®.
The series looks at the "job" of being the spouse of an elected official
and investigates how our local spouses of officials deal with the
spotlight.
APEX 2008 is the 20th
Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition which
recognizes international outstanding publications ranging from newspapers,
newsletters, and magazines to annual reports, brochures and websites.
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Writers, editors, publishers, and agencies from around
the world select what they feel is their best work to
submit for award consideration. This year, among the
thousands of awards submitted, approximately 31%
received an Apex Award of Excellence. Approximately 2%
received a Grand Award. The Apex judges had
this to say about Perry's work:
"A wonderfully written, exceptionally interesting
and insightful look at the role of the elected
official's spouse at the local level. An extremely
astute 'behind the scenes' view of how the political
process works."
Maryland 20878®
began as
Kentlands Dot Us magazine for Kentlands and quickly expanded to
cover the wider surrounding region. It is published by Aurora Artisans®
LLC which also publishes Word Worth®, KentLakes®, and Kentlands Dot Us magazines.
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Posted July 2007
Four
Maryland 20878®
writers win APEX 2007 Awards including a Grand Award!
Marien Helz has been
awarded the APEX 2007 Grand Award in the category Writing
for the writing series, Growing Up in Gaithersburg published in
Maryland 20878®.
The series covers a wide span of topics ranging from being a “paper boy”
in the 1950s to a Gaithersburg child who put himself in “Grave Danger”
playing in the street in 2006. The articles are inspired by events in
Helz’s years growing up, and nearly always have the phrase, “growing up
in Gaithersburg,” somewhere in the column. Helz won an Apex Award of
Excellence 2005 for an editorial published in Word Worth®—World
magazine of Ideas and the Arts in 2004.
Graceann Macleod, 20878
columnist, has won an Apex Award of Excellence
for a column published in Word Worth in May of 2006. In that
column,
Macleod writes about her mother who died when
Macleod was just
twenty-two years old.
Macleod’s column is extremely moving without a
trace of sentimentality.
Charles Miess won an
Apex Award of Excellence for his column, “Superlatives Grow as the
Standards Go” published in the July 2006 issue of Maryland 20878.
M. H. Perry, editor
of Maryland 20878, has received an Apex Award for an
editorial published in Word Worth, “Rediscovering Rupert Brooke.”
APEX 2007—the 19th
Annual Awards for Publication Excellence—is an international competition
that recognizes outstanding publications from newsletters and magazines
to annual reports, brochures and Web sites.
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The initial selection
process for the Apex Awards involves writers, editors,
publishers, and agencies selecting their best work
to submit for awards. From approximately 5000 entries,
judges select the works which they deem to represent
excellence in graphic design, editorial content,
writing, and the success of the entry in achieving
overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
Only about a third meet the high standards set by the
judges for an Award of Excellence. Of those, the work of
approximately two percent are considered to be of the
caliber worthy of a Grand Award.
According to the
APEX 2007 judges, "The awards were based on excellence in graphic
design, quality of editorial content and the success of the entry in
conveying the message and achieving overall communications
effectiveness." Of 4916 entries this year, a total of 114 APEX Grand
Awards were presented in 11 major categories to honor the outstanding
works in those categories.
The APEX Awards for
Publication Excellence is an annual competition for writers, editors,
publications staff and business and nonprofit communicators. It is
sponsored by Communications Concepts, Inc., publishers of business
communication reports.
In the Nineteenth
Annual APEX Awards, awards were given in 105 communications categories,
in 11 main categories including: newsletters; magazines and journals;
magapapers and newspapers; annual reports; brochures, manuals and
reports; electronic and video publications; Web and intranet sites;
campaigns, programs and plans; writing; design and illustration; and
one-of-a-kind publications.
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Posted 2006
Kentlands Dot Us is the
recipient of the
2006 Apex Award
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Maryland 20878®
began as Kentlands Dot Us magazine for
Kentlands and quickly expanded to cover the wider
surrounding region, now including the 208** zip code
regions. It is published by Aurora Artisans®
LLC which also publishes Word Worth®,
KentLakes®, and Kentlands Dot
Us magazines.
Apex®
Awards are given by Communications Concepts, Inc.
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