Community Corner

Rockville Rewind: May 23-27

Budgets approved, court annex ground moves and a lost groove.

Final decisions on the city and county budgets and last minute changes to the Hometown Holidays concert lineup kept Rockville busy this week as residents raced toward Memorial Day weekend.

The week began with good news for residents pining for a grocery store in Rockville Town Square as city manager Scott Ullery announced on Monday that .

Also on Monday, the City Council and a five-year, $72.3 million capital plan. While the council voted on the budget without discussion during Monday’s meeting, and after the vote.

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On Tuesday, . The six-story building at East Jefferson Street and Maryland Avenue sits adjacent the existing Circuit Court building and will provide 10 new courtrooms, clerk’s offices and expanded central holding. It is part of $140 million in expansion and improvements to the Montgomery County Judicial Center that are expected to be completed by fall 2013.

, brining cupcakes to the County Council to mark the nonprofit hub’s 16th tenant—making its Parklawn Drive office space fully-leased.

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A 28-year-old woman was as she tried to unlock the front door of her Monroe Street apartment building early Wednesday morning. Police are searching for two men who may have used a dark blue or gray, newer model four-door sedan to flee the scene.

On Thursday morning, attention turned toward county spending as the County Council approved a $4.4 billion fiscal 2012 operating budget. .

Police on Thursday identified on Veirs Mill Road in Wheaton on Monday night as Maria De la Paz, 39, of Rockville. De la Paz and her husband, Demetrio Gomez Sanchez, 43, were struck after stepping off a bus. Sanchez was listed in fair condition at Suburban Hospital on Thursday.

Several stores in the Traville Gateway Shopping Center were evacuated on Thursday after .

As Memorial Day weekend drew near, and organizers of scrambled to replace their headlining act.

On Friday afternoon, after the “Godfather of Funk” was reportedly hospitalized with a staph infection in his leg.


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