Clarksburg News

Concern about the impact of construction on water quality in Clarksburg is leading planners to ask the county to look for an alternate site for the county's new bus maintenance depot.

The Montgomery County Planning Board is tepidly pushing the rapid-bus option as the "wiser choice" for the Corridor Cities Transitway, but stopped short of eliminating light rail for the mass transit line that would run from the Shady Grove Metro station, west to Gaithersburg and north to the Comsat building near Clarksburg.

A proposal is under consideration to turn the hills of Little Bennett Regional Park into the first formal snow-tubing site in Montgomery County.

The following is a summary of incidents in the upcounty to which the Montgomery County Police responded recently.

Concern about construction's impact on water quality in Clarksburg is leading planners to ask Montgomery County to look for an alternate site for the county's new bus maintenance depot.

Montgomery County planners are recommending a bus rapid transit system along the Interstate 270 corridor.

Shiane Dixon, 12, had just joined her brother, Hassan, on the Track and Field Wall of Fame at Rocky Hill Middle School.

Ashley Thompson, 22, of Germantown was turned down for a job with the county school system because rules require that paradeucators have a high school diploma and one year of college.

This is just not the type of story you hear about much. In Clarksburg, Maryland if you ask for directions to the High School from MapQuest or some GPSs you don't end up there, but rather at a private street.

Cell phone service for AT&T customers could improve in some upcounty parks if a cell phone tower extension in Boyds is approved by the county.

Wanted man turns himself in A man wanted by the Frederick Police Department turned himself in Thursday.

Jim Williamson and his son Mateo, 17, of Clarksburg are participating in DriveCam for Families, a pilot program using an in-car camera to monitor the driving of teens.

This story was updated on June 18 at 2 p.m. An 18-year-old from Boyds died early this morning when the car he was riding in crashed on Frederick Road in Clarksburg.

A passenger is dead and driver injured after their car struck a wooden power pole in an early morning crash Thursday in Clarksburg.

Frederick County Commissioner Charles Jenkins is being asked to support a new light-rail line in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, a project he thinks could drain future dollars from improvements to I-270. Jenkins' top priority during his campaign was road improvement.

Two, if not four, of the seven churches that mentor and tutor suspended students will fold their programs after the county cut funding by 75 percent.

Hundreds of homes along Interstate 270 lay in the path the state could carve if it widens the highway from Shady Grove Road past Frederick - most of them in densely populated, high-minority neighborhoods in Gaithersburg.

Robyn McNair and Shauna McLennan-Jusino applaud their classmates as they walk across the stage at Mount St.

A couple of transportation projects dear to Montgomery County may have gotten a new ally when former Montgomery County budget director Beverley K. Swaim-Staley became the state's acting transportation secretary Monday.

A downtown Bethesda office building could become the next addition to the county's network of housing options for its homeless residents.