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Rockville Rewind: Sept. 12-16

A grocer signs, Czech K-9s and it's football time.

A busy week bookended by a house fire and a vehicle crash also included big news for Rockville Town Square, city and county councils back at work and signs of the approaching official start of fall, including talk about football and the flu.

Early in the week, Rockville Patch took a look back at a weekend of remembrances and reflection as the city marked 10 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 with and .

A fire in a home in Lincoln Park on Monday morning . Fire investigators concluded that the blaze started in the electrical wiring connecting of a clothes dryer. The fire did an estimated $125,000 in damage to the home in the 200 block of Elizabeth Avenue.

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Federal Realty Investment Trust announced Monday that the owners of the Richmond, Va.-based Ellwood Thompson’s Local Market in the spring. City Council members rejoiced at the news, but some , as owners would like.

Students, parents and teachers at St. Raphael School waved flags and sang “God Bless America” on Monday morning as , the father of a St. Raphael preschooler. Salazar had been deployed with the U.S. Navy in Afghanistan for the past eight months.

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The Rockville City Council returned from its summer recess on Monday night, , which was instrumental in the city’s acquisition of its two K-9s.

Just in time for the season’s first blast of fall-like temperatures, Adventist HealthCare doctors on Monday at the Universities at Shady Grove. Doctors urged members of the public to get a flu shot in order to protect themselves and their neighbors.

County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), at a meeting with the Montgomery County Council on Tuesday, .”

As , members voiced concerns about racial profiling and questioned whether a curfew is the right way to keep teens off the streets. County officials also in the decision-making process.

National poverty numbers released Tuesday showed that , its highest in nearly two decades.

On Wednesday, Montgomery Village Patch reported that .

As campaigns for City Council and mayor revved up in the days following the filing deadline, we reported on .

, who boast the area’s top-rated quarterback in Chris Papadopoulos and who traveled Friday to play a big game against the Damascus Hornets.

On Friday afternoon, police said that was stopped on the shoulder of northbound Interstate 270 between Montrose Road and Falls Road.

As the workweek wound down, we featured at the Glenview Mansion. Allenberg is a surrealist artist from Pinneberg, Germany—Rockville’s sister city.


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