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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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Free Trees, If You Please
Rockville’s annual Fall Tree Giveaway opens for online registration at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2. To register, visit rockvillemd.gov/treegiveaway. Registrants will be able to pick up their trees from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Rockville Senior Center, 1150 Carnation Drive. Here’s what you need to know: Interested in planting more trees? The…
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Speaker Series at Glenview Mansion: Lives Beyond the White House
Peerless Rockville and Glenview Mansion will present a free talk on the untold stories of Civil War-era residents in and around the District of Columbia. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, U.S. Park Ranger Bryan A. Cheeseboro will present “Outside of Lincoln’s White House: Civil War Era Men and Women of the District of Columbia,…
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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,…
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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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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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Stay Fit, Stay Healthy in September at the Senior Center
Stay healthy, informed and entertained with seminars and events from the Rockville Senior Center in September. The senior center will be closed Sept. 1-5 for asbestos remediation in the library. Register with the course number at rockvillemd.gov/registration. Learn about 60-plus programs, courses, activities and services at rockvillemd.gov/seniorcenter or by calling 240-314-8800. For more information, see…
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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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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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Operas, Ghosts and Goddess Power: September Performances at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
The curtains open on mistaken identities, courtroom hijinks, supernatural thrills and divine strength this month as the newly renovated F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre brings an eclectic mix of performances to Rockville’s stage. A dedication to mark the renovations will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Tours of the theater will follow.