Community Corner

ICC Test Drives, Metro Naming, Coyotes, Online Billing and Getting Your Stuff Back

A quick hit of news and notes from in and around Rockville.

Today's rundown brings to mind (well, for this local editor, anyway) a "Looney Tunes" cartoon, with news about highway road running and coyotes. Everybody now: "On with the show, this is it!":

  • Ladies and gentleman start your engines! Test drive the Intercounty Connector beginning today. Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood led other elected officials in cutting the ribbon on the toll road on Monday. Today, after , it opens to traffic. Get your test drive on for two weeks. After that you'll need an E-ZPass.
  • In other transportation news, Metro is exploring selling naming rights to its stations. It got us thinking: What are some possible new names for Rockville's Metro stations? Rockville Town Square Station? Twin"Brooks Brothers" Station? "Slim" Shady Grove Station (with an ad promoting Eminem's latest album next to the each Metrorail map)? Surely you can do better than this. What businesses could you see buying naming rights to Metro stations? (Post them below. The favorite will be submitted to the Metro board and to the potential sponsor.)
  • Coyotes. They walk among us. And I'm not talking Wile E. Coyote and an Acme rocket pack. .
  • The Rockville Planning Commission meets at 7 p.m. tonight at City Hall.
  • Looking for a new or easier way to pay your water bill? The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission will offer online bill pay via SpeedPay, through Western Union, beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday. The Web-based system will allow you to pay your bill 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week using your credit, debit, ATM card or e-check. To use SpeedPay log on to www.wsscwater.com and click on WSSC e-Services.
  • Missing some stuff? County police might have it. Televisions, laptops and jewelry were on display Tuesday after police arrested four men in connection with a string of burglaries in Montgomery Village, Gaithersburg and Germantown.
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