Rockville Rewind: Feb. 28-March 4

March blew into Rockville this week with a bit of warm weather hinting at things to come and a chill in the air on Thursday reminding us that the calendar still says winter for another two weeks.

While the seasons played out their annual battle for supremacy Rockville residents pondered global issues from Sudan to Egypt, accepted a challenge to go green and celebrated a new champion.

On Monday, the Rockville City Council voted unanimously to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Community Challenge—and announced that the city is already meeting the federal guidelines.

In other developments from the council, no news was, well, no news on the reportedly ongoing Town Square grocery store negotiations, and the city manager's office reported that with the sun glare problem at the District Courthouse is again on the state's radar.

Tuesday brought a revolution home to Rockville as a panel of experts at a County Council-sponosored forum discussed recent developments in Egypt and what the future holds for that country.

With hope springing eternal for baseball fans (yes, even Nats and O's fans) on Wednesday we took a look at a changing-of-the-guard of sorts at Montgomery College-Rockville where hope to resurrect the Knights' nine.

Rockville earned some national recognition on Wednesday night thanks to Richard Montgomery High school senior and Rockville resident .

In another sign of the season, we took time out on Thursday to round up Rockville's high school hoops teams and assess their performances this postseason.

Thursday also brought news that Montgomery County shoppers could soon face .

It was a sad scene on Friday at the Rockville Metro station as fire and rescue crews worked to free a man who was struck and pinned under a southbound Red Line train. Witnesses said that the man appeared to "intentionally place himself in the path of the train," a Metro spokeswoman said.