April Longest, principal at Farmland Elementary School in Rockville, is this year’s winner of the Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony Award. The Mark Mann award is presented annually to an MCPS administrator who has shown exceptional performance in promoting academic excellence, positive human relations and community outreach.

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The City of Rockville’s Hometown Holidays Music Fest takes place from noon-7 p.m. Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 at RedGate Park (14500 Avery Road) in Rockville. Everclear, the alternative rock band whose career spans four decades and many memorable hits, will headline.

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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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It has been nearly 10 years since Walmart officially abandoned its plans to open a store in Aspen Hill. The retail giant was intending to build a 118,000-square-foot store with expanded grocery offerings on the site of the vacant BAE/Vitro office building at 4115 Aspen Hill Road, touting the creation of nearly 300 jobs.  The nearly 10-acre Aspen Hill property included a 262,000-square-foot office building that was vacant since 2010. In 2019 it was purchased by Kaiser for a future Medical Center that was originally planned to open in 2022. The pandemic halted those plans, and we are still awaiting the next move by Kaiser.

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