Private property owners can play an important role in reducing pollution and flooding, and creating wildlife habitat by installing small-scale stormwater projects.
Single-family homeowners and nonprofits, including religious institutions, private schools, homeowners associations and condominium associations, can receive up to a lifetime maximum of $2,500 in rebates for the approved projects below.
Rockville City Police responded to a call for a shooting at the 100 block of Gibbs Street in Rockville early Friday morning, which is located in Rockville Town Square. The RCPD posted the following update on in its social media account shortly before 9am:
“Around 1:45 a.m. officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Gibbs St for the initial report of fight in progress, which was then changed to a shooting. Officers located an adult male shot several times. The victim was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The victim/suspect, who appear to be known to each other, got into a physical altercation. The suspect shot the victim several times. This is an active investigation, there is no threat to the community.”
7/15/22 – 2:45 a.m. RCPD has responded to a shooting in the 100 block of Gibbs Street. RCPD Investigators en route. This is an active investigation, no other information is available at this time.
Additional information will be provided as soon as we have it.
Planet Fitness will be opening a new location at 5520 Randolph Rd in Rockville (Montrose Shopping Center) in the space that was formerly occupied by Gold’s Gym, according to a report by Rockville Nights. No opening date has been announced. Planet Fitness currently has MoCo locations in Germantown, Rockville, and two in Silver Spring.
In June, Planet Fitness at 255 Muddy Branch Rd in Gaithersburg announced it would no longer be open 24 hours, seven days a week. The gym now closes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights at 9pm and reopens the following morning. The other MoCo locations will remain 24-7 according to a representative at the Gaithersburg gym. Also in Planet Fitness news, teenagers in MoCo can work out for free all summer at Planet Fitness through August 31st by downloading a digital key tag on PlanetFitness.com. Any teenager to sign up for the program is automatically entered for a chance to win a $500 scholarship (one winner per state). Additional information can be seen below.
According to Chief Spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Pete Piringer, Fire Investigators recently arrested Bill Clinton Gomzez, 18, of Rockville and charged him with 2nd degree arson for allegedly setting a vacant house on fire on N. Horners La in Rockville on April 23, 2022. Gomez, along with a juvenile, was also charged for motor vehicle thefts in April and June of this year that also involved arson.
Remember this (abandoned) vehicle fire on 6/21/2022 on Southlawn La near Avery Rd? Probably not, but @mcfrs Fire/Explosive Investigators figured it all out, along w/ a few other suspicious fires @MontgomeryCoMD & have recently made an arrest pic.twitter.com/nZTH1EotwT
This beautification project is the first of its kind at the transfer station and is the first of several planned landscaping projects for the property.
The Transfer Station is located at 16101 Frederick Road in Derwood. The County Recycling Center is adjacent to it. Both facilities are generally open seven days a week to accept trash and items for recycling. Last year, the transfer station received more than 730,208 tons of waste and the recycling center took in more than 70,000 tons of recyclable material.
The victim stated that on Thursday, June 2, 2022, multiple credit cards were stolen from his car while it was parked in the parking lot near OneLife Fitness, located on Research Blvd. One of the unknown suspects used the stolen credit cards and made fraudulent purchases at several stores in Virginia.
Detectives reviewed the surveillance footage of the stores and obtained photographs of the two suspects.
At approximately 9:45 p.m., Rockville City and Montgomery County Police 1st District officers responded to the Shell Gas Station on Gaither Rd for an armed robbery. The Investigation determined that two suspects entered the store and pointed their guns at the store employee and announced the robbery. Both suspects went behind the counter and removed a large amount of vape pens and tobacco products from the shelves. No cash was taken during the robbery. Both suspects then left the location on foot.
The first suspect is described as a Black male with a thin build, wearing a distinctive black hoody with white smiley faces on it. He wore a black ski mask, black pants, black shoes and carried a black sling backpack.
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The 1992 critically acclaimed film, A Few Good Men, is often noted for its ensemble cast of Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson, and many other big Hollywood names, but a man who grew up in Montgomery County, Wolfgang Bodison, plays a key role in the movie.
The plot follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines, one played by MoCo’s Wolfgang Bodison, charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case. Bodison, who played the role of Lance Corporal Harold “Hal” Dawson, delivered a powerful performance in what was his first acting role.
Just a couple weeks ago, on June 27th, a car was driven into Tiger Sugar– located at 12266E in Federal Plaza. The collision destroyed the bubble tea shop’s storefront, forcing the store to close until repairs are complete. We have just been informed that the store will hold a Grand Reopening, that will include merchandise giveaways, on Saturday, July 16th at noon. Additional information will soon be available via Tiger Sugar Rockville’s Instagram.
Work to schedule the repairs began almost immediately, but we have been told the driver’s insurance was only able to cover a small portion of the damages caused by the collision and that the rest had to go through the business’s insurance policy, which traditionally has a high deductible.