Rockville Rewind: April 11-15

It was another work week for many Rockville residents—though for federal workers that almost wasn't the case—and a busy week when it came to government, with the Rockville City Council deliberating the city's budget and the Maryland General Assembly racing to the finish line of its 90-day legislative session.

Meanwhile, budding artists were recognized, word came that a beloved sandwich shop with Rockville roots is for sale and elected officials and school children teamed up to plant a tree in Town Center.

Federal workers went back to work on Monday—something that wasn't certain to be the case at this time last week—after Congressional leaders and President Obama brokered an 11th-hour budget compromise.  to voice their opinion (in 140 character or less) about their elected officials. Not surprisingly, not everyone was happy.

Monday also brought as Roy's Place, a local landmark that started in Rockville in 1955 before moving to Olde Towne Gaithersburg in 1971, is scheduled to go on the auction block on April 28.

Also Monday, U.S. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. presented awards to students from area high schools during . An exhibition of the students' work will be on display at VisArts through May 4. The winning submission, by Jee-Won Park of Poolesville High, will hang in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

The Rockville City Council held its first work session on the city's fiscal 2012 operating and capital budgets on Monday. . A proposal to cut a $100 tax credit for homeowners effectively amounts to a tax hike, he said.

At midnight on Monday, . The session's final hours included the and the first increase in the state's alcohol tax in four decades.

Even as legislators departed Annapolis that will address redistricting but that could also try to tackle transportation funding, possibly including a gasoline tax.

On Tuesday morning, . The woman had been arrested and cited for shoplifting, said police Chief Terrance N. Treschuk, who said that she appeared to have a seizure before she "passed out."

On Wednesday, county  after she had gone missing last week. Linda Ann Reiff suffers from depression and her family worried that she could harm herself, police said.

The City of Rockville observed Arbor Day on Thursday with near the historic Red Brick Courthouse in Town Center. County and city elected officials, city forester Wayne Noll, city workers and students from Christ Episcopal School assisted in planting the tree, a willow oak that replaces a 150-year-old silver maple that had rotted and was cut down last summer.

With an eye to the weekend sports schedule on Friday, Rockville Patch brought readers , a recent transplant from California to Rockville who is making an impact with the D.C. Divas, a women's tackle football team. The Divas next play at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex in Landover.