VIDEO: Residents Held Vigil for Neighborhood Park
The park could become the site of a new school for children in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster.
About 20 residents who live near the Rosemary Hills–Lyttonsville park in Silver Spring joined together for a vigil for the park late Wednesday, a day before the school board is expected to decide whether the park will become the site for a new school.
The new middle school is supposed to alleviate the projected overcrowding of 1,500 students at Westland Middle School in Bethesda, according to Montgomery County Public Schools Site Selection Advisory Committee.
The park, located near the Gwendolyn Coffield Community Center, is used by residents to exercise, walk their dogs and socialize.
Community members vowed that if the county school board chooses the parkland for the school's location Thursday, they will take up their cause with the state board of education.
lilkunta
7:26 pm on Thursday, April 28, 2011
A vigil? Seriously. This is too much.
We NEED a school in this area. I dont like my kid being bused ALL THE WAY to Bethesda for Westland.
Again like I said here
http://silverspring.patch.com/articles/community-stand-their-ground-against-building-a-new-school-in-rosemary-hillslyttonsville-local-park
Could the school be built AND a park be re built next to/beside it?
Like the way Pinecrest Elem and Pinecrest Park are next to each other.
Like the way East Silver Spring Elem and Park are next to each other.
KatieSilverSpring
7:51 am on Friday, April 29, 2011
The neighborhood won. The school won't be there. If Sen Ben Cardin hadn't stepped in and prevented the county from retrieving one of its properties which had been a MCPS, this would never have happened and the Silver Spring area would have regained its school without the intervention of the Chevy Chase and Bethesda PTAs (THEY made this decision NOT any Silver Spring PTA).
lilkunta
12:11 pm on Saturday, June 25, 2011
Katie: How so? The ROsemary Hills neighborhood lost. RH could have had a new school and more importantly a LOCAL school to enhance the park and Coffield Community Center. What did Sen Cardin do? What property did the county retrieve or not retrieve?
Maria Fusco
11:46 pm on Friday, June 24, 2011
But BOE also mentioned that they may revisit ~ Please be aware, and ready ~
go to www.brickyardcoalition.org ~ we're having similar problems!