Community Corner

Rockville Rewind: May 16-20

Magruder remembers three, plans for the CCT and a budget for the county.

Rockville awoke Sunday to news that a car crash had claimed the lives of three members of the Col. Zadok Magruder High School community. The news gripped friends, family and neighbors in and around Derwood and beyond and cast a shadow over one of the last weeks of the school year.

As funerals and an attempt at healing began, Patch reported on signs of spring, from an interview with the hometown big league team’s manager to details of the homestretch for the county budget season.

The week’s news cycle began early, and tragically, as three young people, including early Sunday morning.

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As details of the crash began to emerge on Monday, the driver, 20-year-old Kevin Coffay, was charged with five traffic offenses and made his first court appearance, where .

News of the crash and tributes to the victims lit up Facebook and Twitter as .

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Meanwhile, as friends and family on Wednesday attended the first of .

In other news this week, Rockville Patch was the first to report that the Maryland Transit Administration has community and is still considering options that would bring the light rail or bus line down King Farm Boulevard.

On Tuesday, when the Washington Nationals were still scoring runs and hovering near the .500 mark, Patch brought you , who looked back on his days growing up in Rockville, when, he said, the city was something of a Norman Rockwell painting.

Also Tuesday, Adventist HealthCare during a meeting of the Great Seneca Science Corridor Master Plan Implementation Advisory Committee.

as Rockville residents dodged scattered showers and watched for flood warnings throughout the week.

The budget season began to wind down as the County Council on Thursday made in preparation for a final vote this week.

County leaders on Thursday in responding to emergency situations around the county.

As the week wound down, Patch reported on , which debuts in King Farm on Wednesday.


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