Rockville Rewind: Sept. 5-9

A workweek of rain, hazardous road conditions and cooler temperatures marked the unofficial transition from summer to fall in Rockville.

The holiday weekend marked the unofficial end of summer as the region got back to work and prepared to remember as we approached 10 years since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Labor Day and a day of rest for many on Monday.

Falls Church (Va.) Patch in which police said Felipe Ananibar Rocha, 41, of Rockville, was driving a pickup truck that struck and killed Harry Emlet, 83, and his wife Elinor, 85, of Falls Church, on Sunday.

As Rockville got back to work on Tuesday, Patch took and found that the county’s highest-ranking official isn’t its highest paid.

 on Tuesday with a gallery of photos of work on display around the Rockville.

An article Wednesday warned residents to watch where you walk after . Wildlife experts believe recent rain drove the snakes out of their usual habitat.

Flood watches and warnings throughout the day on Wednesday brought .

The spotlight turned to pending action on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as national and regional . A bipartisan panel of lawmakers that convened this week could consider such moves as part of $1.5 trillion in deficit-cutting measures they are charged with identifying.

High school sports are back. On Wednesday, junior over Watkins Mill.

It’s not easy being green. But on Thursday,

Meanwhile,  as creeks and streams swelled with a fourth straight day of heavy rain.

As the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction got to work on Thursday, U.S. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington, one of the so-called super committee’s 12 members, .

Also Thursday, saying that if the county chooses to create a public power company it could need approval from the state legislature and Public Service Commission and would need to pay “just compensation” to Pepco for its infrastructure.

On Friday, Rockville Patch posted . This year’s conference, to be held on Oct. 22 at Montgomery College-Rockville, will honor author Maxine Hong Kingston.

Rockville Patch also took a look at that includes a reproduction of a mural that Maine’s governor ordered removed from a state building.

As the workweek wound down, the city and county paused to remember the 11 Montgomery County victims of the Sept. 11 attacks with at the County Executive Office Building.