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Demonstration to Help City Consider Parking Lanes on Redland Boulevard
A demonstration project beginning in mid- September will temporarily repurpose the outside travel lanes of Redland Boulevard as full-time parking lanes, allowing Rockville to study whether to establish the parking lanes permanently. Signs, pavement markings and flexible posts delineating the parking lanes will be installed and remain in place through October. During that time, city…
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LED Lighting the Way
Rockville recently retrofitted 395 lights at Rockville Civic Center Park to energy-efficient LEDs, including at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre and 18 lights in the parking lot below Glenview Mansion. The improved lighting efficiency is anticipated to save roughly $8,000 in annual electricity costs at the theater. The project was funded in part by a…
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Sustainable Fall Yard Care: From Leaves to Lawn
Fall is the perfect season to take environmentally friendly steps for a healthier, sustainable yard. Plant native for birds and bees. Replace some of your lawn with native ground cover, wildflower gardens and native trees. Leave seeds and flower stalks up to help birds and bees make it through the winter. Learn more at rockvillemd.gov/…
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Car Show Presents Wheels of Yesteryear in October
The Rockville Antique and Classic Car Show, a city tradition for more than six decades, rolls into Rockville Civic Center Park on Saturday, Oct. 18. The show is planned for 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the picturesque park at 603 Edmonston Drive. Home to the historic Glenview Mansion, the hills of Rockville Civic Center Park offer…
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Rockville to Remember 9/11 With Ceremony
The City of Rockville will mark the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and remember county residents who lost their lives with a ceremony at 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 at Courthouse Square Park, at the corner of East Jefferson Street and Maryland Avenue in Rockville’s downtown. The ceremony, which is free and open…
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Are You Registered? Sign Up and Do Your Democratic Duty!
National Voter Registration Day is coming up and on Tuesday, Sept. 16, members of Rockville’s City Clerk/Director of Operations Office will be at the Square in Rockville Town Center from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. signing up people to vote. More than 6 million Americans have registered to vote on National Voter Registration Day since the civic…
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Public to Pick: Artist Finalists to Present Designs for Memory Walk Art
Three artists will present proposals for the Memory Walk Park Public Art Project during a public meeting from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at Croydon Creek Nature Center, 852 Avery Road. Artists Vito di Bari, Dina Fisher and Craig Gray will share their designs, and Lincoln Park residents will be invited to vote for…
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Percival Everett to be Honored with F. Scott Fitzgerald Award
The 29th annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival on Saturday, Oct. 18, will honor author and Pulitzer Prize winner Percival Everett with the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. The festival will take place from 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. at Montgomery College in Rockville and will feature a full day of…
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‘Flights Of Fancy’ to Take Off at College Gardens Park
Baltimore-based artist Andy Dahl’s new mural, “Flights of Fancy,” at College Gardens Park picnic pavilion, will be formally dedicated at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16. Dahl is a painter, sculptor, filmmaker and public artist with a master’s in fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He balances his time between public art commissions,…