Reminder: Be safe & DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE this Halloween!
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Rockville
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A Tale of Three Cities: Rockville’s Sister Cities
Many of us have spent a warm summer evening sampling Rockville Town Square’s various eats or tossing a football at Woodley Gardens Park. Rockville is a uniquely American city, full of diverse cultural touches and flavors. At every different corner, you might find someone who speaks a different language, or perhaps a new local restaurant that has opened up to share another unique iteration of the countless cuisines that are already represented in the area.
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The DMV has many scenic areas and buildings that have been used as striking locales for filming film and TV. Whether it’s downtown D.C., Baltimore, or Annapolis, location scouts consistently look to our surrounding areas as visual homes for their stories. Montgomery County is no different.
Here are five movies (in no particular order) where you can see Montgomery County on the big screen:
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Pop Up Poutine and Pop Up Patisserie’s Rockville Storefront Now Open
Yesterday, Pop Up Poutine and Pop Up Patisserie announced that their Rockville Storefront is now open for business. Pop Up Poutine sells Montreal Poutine, smoked meats, Montreal style bagels, and other savory goodies. Pop Up Patisserie focuses on desserts such as macarons, cream puffs, eclairs, and more.
Today, the County Council and County Executive Marc Elrich announced that this Monday, October 12 will be officially recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and it will continue to be recognized annually by the county.
The decision, which was brought to the council by Councilmember Nancy Navarro, was met with unanimous support. This day, which had traditionally been associated with Columbus Day, will recognize and celebrate the “stories and cultures of our Native communities,” Navarro said.
City of Rockville to Proclaim October 12th as Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The City of Rockville will read and approve a proclamation at tonight’s city council meeting that will proclaim October 12th, 2020 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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The Wegmans will be 92,000 square feet, and is planned to be built on the corner of Rockville Pike and Halpine Road. Along with the store, an apartment complex and parking garage will be added to the site. Developers estimate the initial stage of development will be completed by 2024.
The Wegmans is part of a major multi-phase development that was officially approved by the Rockville Planning Commission, according to Bethesda Magazine. The development includes several new apartment buildings, numerous office and retail locations, and a 1-acre park.
Signage for Crumbl Cookies was added recently to a storefront in Rockville’s Federal Plaza. Crumbl Cookies is a nationwide bakery franchise that offers different freshly baked cookies each week. They sell chocolate chip and sugar cookies every day, but the rest of their offerings rotate. Their flavors range from experimental (watermelon chilled sugar cookie), to cookie twists on classic desserts (peach cobbler cookie), to more traditional cookies (peanut butter brownie cookie, pictured here).
It does not seem like Crumbl will open anytime soon– the Crumbl website announced their new stores opening in July and the upcoming Rockville location was not included yet.
It appears as though Bagel City in Rockville may have closed. As first reported by ABC7’s Kevin Lewis, the light up sign with the restaurant’s name has been taken down, there is a “For Lease” sign in the window, and the restaurant seems to have been emptied of all tables and equipment.
Bagel City, located in the Pike Center shopping center off of Rockville Pike, had been in operation in that location for almost 40 years.
Did you know that you can take a train from Rockville to Chicago without switching lines?
Amtrak’s Capitol Limited starts its route in DC’s Union Station and then has stops in Rockville, Harper’s Ferry, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and finally ends in Chicago. The ride from Rockville to Chicago takes a little over 17 hours.