Rockville Rewind: May 9-13

It was a week to highlight the people in the neighborhoods in and around Rockville, from creature creators to cross-country climate change-cautioning cyclists. Meanwhile, lawmakers considered budgets, the governor signed controversial new legislation and the county welcomed a new schools chief.

The week opened in a weird—yet arguably cuddly—way as , the animal combination creation of Rockville resident Jamie Noguchi. Noguchi, a Web site creator and anime artist, turned to the Web for the start-up capital needed to put his Puppy Cow drawings in plush form.

On Tuesday, we profiled . Goodrich, a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, is biking from Delaware to Oregon, making stops along the way to talk to school kids about global warming.

A county work group looking into Pepco submitted a report to County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) on Tuesday that .

Also Tuesday, , which grants in-state college tuition to children of illegal immigrants. Even as the ink was drying on the legislation, opponents were organizing an effort to put the law on the November 2012 ballot, including a meeting at the Rockville Memorial Library where .

The County Council continued its work on the fiscal 2012 operating budget on Tuesday as it .

O’Malley during a speech at the Tech Council of Maryland’s Tech Awards dinner on Tuesday evening in North Bethesda.

Joshua P. Starr that will pay him a base salary of $250,000 a year as the county’s next schools superintendent. Afterwards, Starr fielded questions from the media about his data-driven approach to education and the politics of being a schools chief, and .

Patch closed out the week by highlighting artists in our community, including and .