Blood pressure and glucose screenings are held at the Loder Senior Center, second floor, from 9 to 11 a.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays and the first, second, third and fourth Thursdays of the month. The center is at 62 Analomink St., East Stroudsburg. For information, call (570) 420-3735.

The Barrett Senior Center offers blood pressure screenings 10 to 11 a.m. the first Monday of the month and glucose screenings on the third Monday of the month. Barrett Senior Center is in the ministry building of Mountainhome United Methodist Church, routes 191 and 390, Mountainhome. For information, call (570) 595-6453.

Pocono Pines Senior Center offers blood pressure screenings 10 to 11 a.m. the second Tuesday of the month and glucose screenings on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Pocono FriendshipEd Roulhac, founding director of
the Montgomery County Campus, speaks at the anniversary
event.Photo by Jay Vanrensselaer / HIPS

Presence of research university fueled growth of state's
I-270 corridor

By Greg RienziThe Gazette

When the Montgomery
County Campus opened in 1988, its
lone building stood more or less
solitarily, among rolling pastures and farm fields. The
only major neighbor of the Rockville, Md.,
campus was the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, which had
opened nine years earlier.

Today, those pastures and fields have been transformed
into a burgeoning campus located in
the heart of what is now known as DNA Alley, the 15-mile
stretch of the I-270 corridor that houses
some of the world's most cutting-edge genomic firms and
research centers.

Johns Hopkins helped lead the way.

The university last Monday celebrated its first 20
years in Montgomery County and heralded its
plans for the future, which include the further expansion
of