Rio and many Montgomery County residents celebrated the opening of the IKEA Plan & Order location at 101 Boardwalk Place Ste 102 on Wednesday, March 13. The celebration took place from 11am-2pm and featured free food and drinks, including IKEA’s patented Swedish meatballs (they will not be regularly available at the location). 

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Some of the nation’s top climbers will be competing at Sportrock at Rio in Gaithersburg this week.  The USA Climbing National Team Trials will be held at the climbing gym on March 5-8 and the Para Climbing National Championships will take place on March 9 and 10. (more…)


Note: The upcoming TOUS les JOURS in Gaithersburg is not affiliated with the Germantown location. The majority of TOUS les JOURS locations are independently owned and operated.  

TOUS les JOURS, a French-Asian bakery that recently opened a location inside of New Grand Mart (13069 Wisteria Dr) in Germantown, will be taking over the space currently occupied by Corner Bakery in Rio. Corner Bakery’s last day of business in Rio will be Thursday, February 22nd after nearly 25 years in business at the location.


Locally Crafted closed its doors  storefront at 201 Boardwalk Place in Gaithersburg’s Rio Lakefront on December 24th, 2023. At the time they announced a new location coming in the spring and now we know they’ll be moving in to 9 Grand Corner Ave.- the space that was recently home to Francesca’s.

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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) and Montgomery County Police responded to the 9800blk of Washingtonian Blvd (Rio Lakefront) for the report of a collision with rollover in a parking garage.

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