Rockville Rewind: June 5-10

With the school year winding down this week it seemed like everyone, from the city and county governments to community organizations, tried to fit in one last meeting or event before summer vacation.

Graduation season was in full swing and Rockville Patch was there for commencement ceremonies at city schools. Meanwhile, candidates for city elections in November staged announcement events around Rockville.

The 2011 city election season kicked off on Sunday as .

Mayor Phyllis Marcuccio formally announced her reelection campaign on Friday and Councilman Piotr Gajewski plans to announce today that he will also seek election as mayor. Rockville Patch will have reports from both of those announcments in the days ahead.

On Monday, we brought you a look back at Rockville High School’s graduation with on June 3 at the Music Center at Strathmore.

Richard Montgomery High School’s Class of 2011 held commencement at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Rockville Patch brought readers as students received their diplomas.

Tuesday also brought the latest in a changing lineup of food options at Rockville Town Square as Federal Realty Investment Trust in the city center later this summer.

Also Tuesday, Patch reported that the fuselage from the plane that Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger famously landed on the Hudson River in 2009 was and was poised to travel through Maryland sometime during the week on its way to an aviation museum in Charlotte, NC.

On Wednesday, Rockville Patch took . Steven A. Silverman, director of the county’s Department of Economic Development, explained what makes Montgomery County so attractive to bioscience companies and said that the county could rival Research Triangle in North Carolina or Silicon Valley in California.

Also Wednesday, the city at Lakewood Country Club.

With , on Thursday, we brought readers a look at .

A team from the Rockville-based DC/MD/VA chapter of the ALS Association prepared to getting running and get muddy at the military-style obstacle course Rebel Race in Frederick next weekend. On Thursday, we brought you the story of .

Also this week, of collecting the requisite signatures of 55,736 registered voters on a petition to block DREAM Act legislation. The law, passed by the General Assembly in April, makes children of illegal immigrants whose families have paid federal income taxes eligible for in-state tuition at Maryland colleges and universities.

Finally on Friday, Rockville Patch posted its first in a series of profiles of Rockville scholars—students who received scholarships from the Rockville Scholarship Foundation, Inc.—with .