Barnesville News

ROCKVILLE a ' The Montgomery County school board has approved a nearly $1.5 billion six-year construction plan.

Megan Roldan, 8, and her mother Wendy Roldan hold signs asking the county school board to keep Monocacy Elementary School open during a meeting Thursday.

The first comprehensive update of Montgomery County's road and transit plan in more than 50 years is about to begin.

The rural upcounty community has rallied behind Dickerson's Monocacy Elementary School, which the county schools superintendant has proposed closing by August due to a projected decline in enrollment.

POOLESVILLE, Md. - Police and residents are searching for a 27-year-old missing horse that leaped a fence days ago in Poolesville and has not been seen since.

The third annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk was earlier this month in Carderock.

Upcounty residents are stepping up opposition to a proposed 31-home subdivision in the county's Agricultural Reserve.

Those pesky Christians. What in the world are they thinking -- trying to build a church, of all things? You've probably seen this in the news.

Police chased three teens and a man in a silver four-door Toyota to the Milestone section of Germantown Friday afternoon following an armed robbery in Frederick County.

Enrollment numbers at private schools across Montgomery County are a mixed bag this school year, with some schools remaining steady, some slightly up or down, and one school closing due to the recession.

Georgia State Patrol continues to investigate a wreck involving an overturned late model Chevy 4-door Blazer.

Members of the Global Mission Church of Greater Washington will have to wait until October to learn if they can build an 85-foot-tall church in southern Frederick County.

Carlos Fernandez Sr. runs Potomac Wind Energy on his Frederick County farm. Two residential power-generating wind turbines will soon be built in Montgomery County.

Barnesville's three incumbents were reelected during the town's biannual elections Monday night.