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Rockville Rewind: Aug. 15-19

Fair fun, a man with a gun and Britton won't run.

It was a week of fun at the county fair and a good bit of Rockville City Council news for mid-August.

Just up the road in Gaithersburg, the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair . .

On Monday, we featured .

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The City Council on Monday unanimously . The new arrangement will mean a new parking system with new hours and free parking with validation for patrons of Town Square merchants and restaurants.

On Tuesday, a man . The man broke into a nearby home and fired two shots at a woman.

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Also Tuesday, we launched a new Patch feature called . Our first DisPatch looked at .

Our “Viewfinder” focused on .

Tuesday also brought a look at how District 17 Del. Kumar P. Barve (D) of Gaithersburg is .

A on Wednesday moved to the comment stream on an op-ed by Joseph Jordan, the chairman of the RedGate Advisory Committee.

Also Wednesday, National Weather Service officials announced that the Washington metropolitan would be one of six regions where .

We took to the streets this week and found , with city business owners concerned about what it could mean for them.

On Friday, we watched Rockville’s roller derby team in motion with .

Also Friday, we featured an interview with Rick Hood, owner of a Richmond, VA-based grocery store that wants to open in Rockville Town Square. .

The week ended with breaking political news as .

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