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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 .
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.
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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.
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