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Montgomery County Police delayed the arrest and charging of two suspects in the homicide of a Gaithersburg woman for two months in an effort to gain more information from them, a police investigator said Tuesday.

Lt. Michael Mancuso said police interviewed two witnesses soon after the April 13 robbery and shooting death of Lindsay Marie Harvey. The witnesses, Anthony S. Moore, 16, and Aaron M. Shepherd, 19, both of Gaithersburg, were arrested and charged June18 with first-degree murder, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Both are being held without bail.

Gaithersburg residents and employees turned out in spades last week to meet two finalists for city manager: Angel Jones of Eugene, Ore., and Theodore ‘‘Ted” Voorhees of Durham, N.C.

Gaithersburg leaders attended the Maryland Municipal League’s annual convention this week, where Mayor Sidney A. Katz was elected president of the league on Tuesday. He was the vice-president of the nonprofit association that represents 157 municipal governments and two special taxing districts in Maryland.

For several years, a 13-acre chunk of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been slated to become a City of Gaithersburg park. But as the former Nike missile site nears its transfer from federal to city hands, city leaders are looking to open the possibility of using the site otherwise.

This weekend marks the 11th annual Heritage Days, a two-day event that showcases historical landmarks throughout Montgomery County that some residents and visitors are unaware of.

First came the flood, now comes the fire.

County emergency officials are preparing for questions on Thursday from a County Council committee on breakdowns with the county’s electronic alert system and why other mass messaging options were not used during last week’s water main break, which affected thousands of residents and businesses for three days.

The water main that ruptured and left hundreds of thousands of Montgomery County residents boiling water for most of three days last week is expected to be fully repaired and back in service on Thursday.

Fifty-two years ago, the federal government condemned 72 acres of countryside northeast of Gaithersburg to build a missile installation to defend against Communist incursion. Written into the 1955 deed was a provision that barred ‘‘human habitation” and ‘‘gatherings of more than twenty-five persons” around the underground missile bays.

Home foreclosures are skyrocketing in Montgomery County, jumping six-fold over the last year, hitting Silver Spring, Germantown, Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village the hardest, according to a recently released state report.

The latest in a series of county-sponsored foreclosure workshops drew about 30 struggling homeowners to Germantown on Saturday.