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Week in Review: School News, Lost Dog Announcements

Read what you missed last week on Bowie Patch.

Hundreds went to the in Bowie last week to apply for jobs at the Target that is expected to open in March in nearby Gambrills. for more than 200 positions at the new store at Waugh Chapel South.

In school news, Maryland earned a and the proposed budget plan for Prince George’s County schools gives . Stay tuned to Patch to see what happens with the budget proposal.

For , The Washington Post reported that the young man from Bowie (who was eliminated from The X Factor in December) has been seen around town. Canty was reportedly asked to sing the national anthem at opening day for the .

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Patch polled readers and offered a reminder that the city will collect Christmas trees with yard waste every Wednesday in January.

Another service offered by the city of Bowie is . The Bowie Police Department provides Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) courses this month. A Bowie Patch reader left a comment on the site that encouraged women to take the class and wrote, "It will change your thinking on so many levels."

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The best news of the week came from a reader who posted on the Bowie Patch Facebook page after she found her . A "lost and found" announcement to help locate Cheyenne also appeared on Crofton Patch Friday and many readers were on the lookout for the Siberian husky.

Please spread the word that another lost dog, a , was picked up by animal control on Friday after following a student home from .


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