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• Broadstone redevelopment gets final city approval

  The Gaithersburg mayor and City Council unanimously approved a series of applications on Monday evening that allows for the redevelopment of the Broadstone Apartments.

• Consultant declines swim center offer

  The man tapped to oversee construction of Gaithersburg’s $25 million Aquatic and Recreation Center turned down the offer late last month, Gaithersburg officials said.

• ACLU encourages Gansler against anti-solicitation law

  The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is asking Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler to weigh in against Gaithersburg’s controversial anti-solicitation ordinance.

• HOA presidents challenge Village board

  The presidents of four homes corporations in Montgomery Village have filed a complaint with the Montgomery Village Foundation over recent moves by the foundation’s board of directors.

Since opening in a county industrial park on Crabbs Branch Way, the center has created 726 day jobs, 39 jobs that were for more than one day and four permanent jobs, according to the report.

More than 250 new employers have registered with the center, according to the report.

MoCo Progressive suggests that there may be more to this story than is contained in the report.

The bear is likely the same one that was seen in Gaithersburg Monday and in Potomac June 27, according to Robert Beyer, assistant director of the Maryland Wildlife and Heritage Division of the Department of Natural Resources. It probably became disoriented in its search for a new home.

‘‘It’s been around for the past week or two,” he said. ‘‘What we have here is a second-year male looking for a new home.”

Dion Harvey Montgomery, 18, of the unit block of Duvall Lane in Gaithersburg was arrested at his home at 9:30 p.m. Friday after police received an anonymous tip through Crime Solvers, said Gaithersburg Police Chief John King.

A Gaithersburg man was hurt early Tuesday during an attempted armed robbery at his home in the unit block of State Court in east Gaithersburg, police said.

A new fire station had been planned for the site of the Montgomery County Public Safety Training Academy on Great Seneca Highway since 1999, but now County Executive Isiah Leggett wants to make sure the project still meets the community’s needs, according to spokesman Patrick Lacefield.