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Kids Can Learn to Swim — and Stay Active — at the Swim Center
Looking for a weekday afterschool activity for your kid? How about learning a life skill to get children ready for summer fun in the pool? The Rockville Swim and Fitness Center offers dozens of learn-to-swim classes to keep your children, ages 4-11, active during the winter months. Classes are available between 3:35-5:15 p.m. on Monday,…
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Certified Instructor? The Swim and Fitness Center is Hiring!
The Rockville Swim and Fitness Center is hiring part-time fitness instructors to teach classes this winter. Instructors are sought for yoga, water fitness and Bootcamp. Ideal candidates will have availability either early mornings, weekday evenings or Saturday mornings. Instructors work about three to four hours a week. An additional perk offered to Rockville Swim and…
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A 19th-century Lunch Break
Bring your lunch and join Peerless Rockville for a presentation on what life was like in the small town of Rockville in 1850, at noon Wednesday, Jan. 22 at the historic Red Brick Courthouse, 29 Courthouse Square, in Rockville Town Center. “Lunch & Learn: Rockville 1850” will look at a time when slavery was the…
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Recycling? Help the City Tackle ‘Tanglers’: Be Cart Smart
Throwing out plastic bags or medical sharps? Please don’t use the brown recycling cart – put them in the gray trash cart. “Tanglers,” such as plastic bags or wrap, rope, wire, clothes, cords, hoses, holiday lights, and chains can become tangled in recycling equipment, bringing processing to a grinding halt. Do not put recyclables in…
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Water Utility Bills Pay for Water System Builds
A family of four in Rockville pays nearly $440 a year for city water service. But what does a water bill actually pay for? It costs about $11.7 million each year to deliver safe, reliable water to Rockville customers, including water treatment, water system operations and maintenance, and administrative services. Those costs must be entirely…
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Multimedia Scholarship Competition
The city’s Human Rights Commission will launch its Multimedia Scholarship Competition on Monday, Jan. 27. Formerly known as the Multimedia Contest, the revamped annual program is an opportunity for students who live in and/or attend high school in Rockville to compete for tuition and/or book scholarships by responding to one of several prompts focused on…
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Election Board Welcomes Ideas
Even though it’s only been three months since the 2019 Vote by Mail election, Rockville’s Board of Supervisors of Elections is already preparing plans for 2023. The board will host two forums as first steps in planning for the next election. The first post-election forum will be from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30; the second…
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Mayor and Council Provide Feedback on Town Center Recommendations
The Mayor and Council in November discussed, supported and provided direction on several recommendations delivered in a report from an expert panel from the Urban Land Institute on ways to strengthen the vitality of Rockville’s Town Center. The report, which was discussed at the Nov. 25 Mayor and Council work session, followed the expert Technical…
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FY 2019 Financial Reports Highlight Rockville’s Finances
Two annual reports that city staff delivered to the Mayor and Council on Dec. 9 give the public a closer look at Rockville’s financial health during the most recently completed fiscal year. For Fiscal Year 2019, which closed June 30, the city ended “with a healthy overall net position of $283.1 million,” City Manager Rob…
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Mayor and Council to Hold Budget Hearing, Discuss Priorities
FY 2021 Budget Survey Available The Mayor and Council continue their work on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget in January with a public hearing and discussion of results from a budget survey. A public hearing during the Mayor and Council meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13 at City Hall will give the community…