Rockville Rewind: May 29-June 3

A holiday-shortened work week brought big news nonetheless as Rockville reveled and remembered at Hometown Holidays festivities and the Memorial Day ceremony and parade, bioscience got a boost and a series of incidents kept emergency responders busy.

On Sunday, with a concert by a last-minute headliner as Taj Mahal played in place of a laid-up George Clinton. Despite the change, the 23rd edition of the annual street festival still proved popular, with for the two days of music, food and fun.

Rockville joined the nation on Monday in pausing to remember our fallen veterans with through Town Center that featured local marching bands, scout troops, community organizations and performers.

Also Monday, Rockville Patch reported on .

As most folks got back to work on Tuesday, county police said that they were still that occurred May 18 near the Traville Gateway Shopping Center.

A and being struck by a car on West Montgomery Avenue on Wednesday morning. Police later identified the man as as Mohit K Lal Bhatnagar, 48, of the 11300 block of Palatine Drive in Potomac.

The discovery of a suspicious powder in an envelope mailed to an office in Town Center led to for about an hour on Wednesday afternoon. A county fire and rescue service hazardous materials team quickly determined that the substance was not dangerous. County police are investigating the incident.

Rockville Patch also brought you and from the first week of the new King Farm Farmers Market.

Thursday brought Rockville news from Shanghai, China, as Gov. Martin O’Malley—on the first leg of a 10-day economic development mission to Asian—announced that Tasly Group, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, plans to build a 430,000-square-foot facility somewhere in the .

Crime news continued to crack the news cycle on Friday as of two men suspected of using an electroshock weapon to attack a 28-year-old woman and steal her purse as she entered her building at the Americana Center apartments in Town Center on May 25.