There have been a lot of snow days in the D.C. Metro area. That should come as a suprise to nobody, given the weather we’ve had.
Here’s a roundup I helped compile last week on the snow days in each county. I reported on Frederick and Howard counties.
College Park drops age for elected office to 18
BY ZACH C. COHEN
zach.cohen@washpost.com
The Washington Post
Feb 13 2014
The College Park City Council voted this week to allow 18-yearolds to run for public office, opening up the opportunity for students at the University of Maryland to seek council seats or the mayor’s office. Under the new rules, adopted in a 5 to 3…read more…
You can also read the online at The Washington Post, my first clip for the education section.
(This blog post has been updated.)
Washington’s favorite cephalopod, the National Zoo’s female giant octopus Pandora, has died, the zoo announced Wednesday.
Pandora was 5 years old, the upper range of the median life span for her species, when she died Feb. 11.
Read the rest of the story in The Washington Post.
A tragic story out of Virginia Tech, with questions left unanswered. My latest for The Washington Post, on B2 with an A1 tease in today’s paper.
My condolences to Sam’s friends and family. Everybody I spoke to said she was a sweet, caring, intelligent woman. Thanks to the legendary Martin Weil for helping me on my first Post crime story.
Slain Tech student was from N.Va.
BY ZACH C. COHEN AND MARTIN WEIL zach.cohen@washpost.com martin.weil@washpost.com
The Washington Post
Feb 12 2014
A 21-year-old Virginia Tech student from Northern Virginia was found slain Monday in the Blacksburg area, where the university is located, authorities said. The student was identified as Samanata Shrestha, who grew up in Vienna and attended James Madison High…read more…
My first Washington Post story leading the Obituaries front.
Lee Reynolds, an actor who played the seafaring title role on “Cap’n Tugg,” a Washington-area children’s TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, and who later became an announcer, writer and director for the public broadcasting station WETA, died Jan. 27 at Capital Caring hospice in Arlington. He was 87.
The cause was lung cancer, said his wife, Christine Lewis Reynolds.
Read the rest of my obituary of children’s show actor Lee Reynolds and my first byline for The Washington Post.
(On an unrelated note, this is currently my 100th post for ZachCCohen.com!)
UPDATE Jan. 30, 9:43 a.m.
B5 with a skybox on B1: My first print byline for The Washington Post, and my first byline in the print edition of a national newspaper.
TV’s Cap’n Tugg was ‘The Man With a Million Voices’
BY ZACH C. COHEN
zach.cohen@washpost.com
The Washington Post
Jan 30 2014
Lee Reynolds, an actor who played the seafaring title role on “Cap’n Tugg,” a Washington area children’s TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, and who later became an announcer, writer and director for the public broadcasting station WETA, died Jan. 27 at…read more…
Today was my first day at The Washington Post. It wasn’t too eventful, to be honest (we only did basic training, such as accessing email, filing stories, posting to the website, etc.). I’ll have more thorough reflections later this week.
However, my tweet announcing my arrival…
First day at the @washingtonpost. Because news doesn’t stop for the snow. pic.twitter.com/ZiKNGcclQi
— Zach C. Cohen (@Zachary_Cohen) January 21, 2014
…ended up on Buzzfeed. Life achievement unlocked. Thanks for the shout-out, Benny Johnson.
Congrats on your new gig, @Zachary_Cohen – glad you braved the snow for Day One (even if @bennyjohnson gave you a hard time about it…)
— Cori Zarek (@corizarek) January 21, 2014
Just when I thought "Man, I could have been on BuzzFeed w/a snow tweet today," @Zachary_Cohen shows up. http://t.co/UEjy2r30D9
— Sylvia Carignan (@SylviaCarignan) January 22, 2014
Zach C. Cohen 