Week in Review: Sept. 12-18

It was a busy news week in Bethesda.

Monday, the Bethesda Urban Partnership announced that the former Fraser Gallery space is set to be reincarnated as

Sadly, also on Monday, a construction worker was at the Safeway set to open at the corner of Arlington Road and Bradley Boulevard on Oct. 13. And lawyers for Brittany Norwood, the woman accused of killing her co-worker Jayna Murray at Bethesda’s Lululemon shop, by the judge-imposed Sept. 12 deadline.

In updates in the Robyn Gardner case, the of the missing North Bethesda woman in Aruba with Gary Giordano, the Gaithersburg man held in connection with her disappearance. It was also widely reported this week that Giordano’s family has a lawyer who defended Casey Anthony, to aid in his defense.

In other crime news, the that a Frederick man has been charged with plotting to kill the husband of a woman he was having an affair with at a Bethesda home last month.

In transit news, we reported that registration is now open for next month’s and we who wants the new station entrance at the Bethesda Metro to be built before WMATA begins an escalator rehabilitation project there in 2014.

At the Montgomery County Council, on the controversial proposed curfew for teens, and County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) with members of the council on an inquiry into public power.

Friday, the federally-mandated deadline for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) transitions was across the country and at the newly-minted Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

And in case you didn’t hear, Spongebob might be bad for kids—our mom columnist took a at the new study blasting the pineapple-dwelling sea sponge in a column that’s received over 120 recommendations on Facebook.

The community came together Sunday to participate in a 5K run/walk in memory of homicide victim Jayna Murray. Stay tuned for our video of the event tomorrow, and we’ll see you next week with more news.