Chelsea Zhu, a sophomore at Richard Montgomery High School and an Rockville, Md., resident, was awarded first prize in the 2024 Gaithersburg Book Festival poetry contest for high school students for her poem “Voyage to the Exoplanet.”
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The Gaithersburg Police Department has officially moved to its new station at 16 S. Summit Ave.
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Updated with information that reflects the address of the current pop-up space and information regarding the most recent tenant.
Stretch Lab is coming to 113 Market St in Gaithersburg’s Kentlands neighborhood. The current pop-up space at 371 Main St. will be moving in to the location that was previously home to Occasions Unique Gifts and most recently home to the Artist in Market pop-up. An opening date for the permanent location is not yet available.
The 15th annual Gaithersburg Book Festival is on today from 10am until 6pm. The festival is a rain or shine event with almost all programming outdoors, but under large tents. Here’s pretty much everything you need to know – all in one place, courtesy of the Gaithersburg Book Festival:
Officers from the Gaithersburg Police Department will conduct increased traffic enforcement on aggressive and unsafe driving Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19, 2024, according to Gaithersburg Police.
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Most people dread seeing their teachers outside of school, but one Watkins Mill High School alumna is looking forward to it this weekend. WMHS graduate Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer will speak as a featured poetry author and in the following block WMHS english and journalism teacher Sara Goodman Confino will be one of the featured authors at the Gaithersburg Book Festival for the second time. Confino will be engaging in a discussion about her book, Don’t Forget to Write, with Sophie Wan, the author of Women of Good Fortune.
Here’s a rundown of recently opened and upcoming restaurants and businesses in Gaithersburg, MD: (more…)
In January 2023, we reported that Nori Japan, one of the last remaining tenants at Lakeforest Mall, had announced that it would be opening a new location across from the former mall at 9615 Lost Knife Rd in the Montgomery Village Crossing shopping center. The restaurant will be named Tokyo Hibachi and will be located in the space that was previously occupied by Wok Express. (more…)
According to a report by Robert Dyer, Tropical Smoothie Cafe will be opening a new location in the upcoming North Pointe at Flower Hill shopping center, a new 16,000 SF retail and restaurant center located at 18251 Flower Hill Way in Gaithersburg.