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Rockville Rewind: Sept. 19-23

A clerk quits, DOJ says 'fix it' and R.E.M. splits.

Rockville moved into fall this week as City Hall was rocked by a resignation, rivals squared off over cupcakes and a family remembered a fallen police officer.

The City of Rockville awoke Monday to news that after 13 months on the job. Evans said that she felt her management style rather than her job performance was the focus of a recent evaluation.

On Monday, we featured young musicians competing for a chance to win $25,000 first prize and priceless exposure in .

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on Monday in a matchup of the defending state champion Colonels and the upstart Wolverines.

On Tuesday, we looked at two women from Rockville who . They are in the running to win $25,000 and have their stories published in Reader’s Digest.

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Also Tuesday, we debuted “Rockville Rivals,” giving readers a chance to vote for—and offer reviews of—their favorite things about Rockville.

As a state panel on health care reform continues to meet this month, critics of the reform efforts .

Meanwhile, a county attorney told the Montgomery County Council on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has across 110 county buildings in order to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Another 479 county facilities still need to be surveyed.

As the Nov. 8 city election draws nearer, on Wednesday we , a candidate for City Council.

Also Wednesday, as the band R.E.M. announced their retirement after 31 years and 15 studio albums, Rockville Patch recalled how .

A Gaithersburg man died early Thursday morning when near Edmonston Drive. The victim, Roberto Nassar, 30, of the unit block of South Frederick Road, was thrown from the scooter. The driver of the car, 22-year-old Michael Charles Dalton, Jr., of College Park, is charged with leaving the scene.

Also Thursday, the family of Jelani Prather who died in a crash on Interstate 270 on Sept. 16.

As the workweek wound down, students at Thomas S. Wootton High School were preparing for . Wootton Principal Michael Doran has granted a reprieve from homework for one weekend in each of the past three years so that students can focus on college applications, volunteer service hours and college testing prep.


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