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Meet a Rockville Employee: Erin Fincher
Erin Fincher, a digital and design specialist, has been on the job since June 17. We asked her to answer a few questions to introduce her to the community. What’s a digital and design specialist?A digital and design specialist is a designer who specializes in digital media rather than print. That means web, apps, social…
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Make Your Yard Green and a Place for Wildlife to Be Seen
The city’s RainScapes Rebates program offers single-family homeowners and nonprofits, including religious institutions, private schools and homeowners associations, up to $2,500 in rebates for landscaping that is designed to green your backyard and reduce pollution. The program offers rebates for planting trees and conservation landscaping, installing rain barrels, or removing pavement and installing permeable pavers…
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Let the Swim Center Help You be a Better Triathlon Swimmer
Swimming is often the weakest event faced by triathletes, which is why the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center offers two swimming programs geared specifically to the open-water component of a triathlon. The center’s certified coaches understand the challenges of open-water swimming and the need to swim efficiently. Beginners to world-class triathletes can take part. Register…
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Human Rights Commission Seeks Student Ambassadors
Volunteers Would Serve as Liaisons with Schools Rockville’s Human Rights Commission is seeking students to serve as liaisons between the commission and high schools that serve the City of Rockville. The HRC will select 10 students, two from each of the following schools: Richard Montgomery, Rockville and Thomas S. Wootton high schools; Rock Terrace School;…
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Green Eggs and Ham, and Oh-So-Much More, This Month at the F. Scott Theatre
Could you, would you, come to the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre in November to enjoy a Seuss musical? How about solving a murder? Or enjoying a cappella? And a perennial favorite is back with balalaikas. “Seussical,” presented by Rockville Musical Theatre. 8 p.m. Nov. 1, 2, 8 and 9; 2 p.m. Nov. 3 and 10.…
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Go Local This Thanksgiving with the Rockville Farmers Market
Bring local farm-fresh fall flavor to your Thanksgiving dinner table this month with produce from regional growers/producers on the final four Saturdays of the Rockville Farmers Market. The market offers fruits and vegetables, plants and flowers, herbs, baked goods, cheese, knife sharpening, meat and coffee. It is open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays, through…
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City Hall and Other Facilities to Close Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Weekend
Rockville City Hall will be closed for Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11, and on Thanksgiving weekend, and other city facilities will be closed or will operate on limited schedules. Tuesday, Nov. 5 (Rockville City Election Day): City Hall and all city facilities will be open, and recycling and trash will be collected as usual.…
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Budget Work to Begin Before Year’s End
The Mayor and Council will begin work on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget in December. A new term of the Mayor and Council is scheduled to begin with the inauguration, on Sunday, Nov. 17, of a mayor and four councilmembers, followed by their first meeting on Monday, Nov. 18. See page 1 for additional information.…
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Boards and Commissions Task Force Delivers Report
After a year of work and 26 meetings, the Boards and Commissions Task Force delivered its report and recommendations to the Mayor and Council at their Monday, Oct. 21 meeting. “Collectively, the volunteers who work on these boards and commissions contribute thousands of hours of service to the city in important functions that expand the…