Accokeek News

Daniel J. Gross/The Gazette Students in the Accokeek Academy choir sing the school song during the groundbreaking ceremony held Monday to announce the construction project for a new elementary school building.

Students, parents, community stakeholders and school leaders filled the school's gymnasium Monday for an announcement many have been waiting years to hear - the official groundbreaking of a new building to replace the current, roughly 50-year-old elementary school building.

At around 2:30 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to a single-vehicle crash on North Sandgates Road.

'There's dust, there's noise, there's flooding on McKendree Road,' said Simon of Brandywine.