Garrett Park News

Bruce Jacob had a few songs he wanted to record, tunes that had been jangling around in his head for years.

Susan Kinzie's Washington Post Metro section front page story today features Bruce Jacob, an ordinary looking, balding 43-year-old guy who in appearance appears the polar opposite of Zappa.

Kathy Benjamin holds up an improbable black woolen head garment - a hybrid of bandit and scuba couture - at the Garrett Park Knitting Group.

Four weeks ago Katherine Farquhar was playing tennis with her friend, Elaine Jones, in the Buck Branch Neighborhood Park on Bells Mill Road.

Historic preservationists left a County Council committee meeting Monday somewhat less worried about the future of Montgomery's historic farms, homes, statues and their settings.

Gabe Mandel, a Garrett Park teenager with a head for cheddar, admires cheese at Balducci's in Bethesda on Saturday.

Last month, a group of four County Council members pushed for agreements between County Executive Isiah Leggett and the police and fire unions on disability retirement and wage issues.

The Montgomery County Council passed a $4.39 billion budget Thursday, restoring funding for some essential services, but cutting employee positions, eliminating salary increases for county employees and reducing the county's reserve fund to deal with declining revenues caused by the recession.

Officepro was one of the first companies to sign up for Montgomery County's small-business reserve program when it started in 2006.

WASHINGTON - It was a sunny Saturday morning, and a dozen kids were busy planning their gardens: tomatoes in the back next to the melons, potatoes in the middle, and beans and carrots up front.

The County Council may again revisit its policy of providing free parking for Rockville and Bethesda library customers.

Kensington residents Sedona Epstein, 8, and Julia Hansen, 9, hunt for trash during the 21st Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup on Saturday, where hundreds of volunteers picked up litter along the 33-mile stretch of Rock Creek.

The owner of the Falkland Chase apartments in Silver Spring can proceed with redevelopment plans after the Montgomery County Council unanimously voted Tuesday to only designate two-thirds of the property as historic.

A recent article in The Gazette included the sentence: "Installing a MARC station at either White Flint site could disrupt service to the Garrett Park station and potentially require station closure." As a long-time train rider mainly between Garrett Park and Union Station, I suggest that disruption and closure are unnecessary.

Talk is intensifying on ways to help property owners in the Clarksburg Historic District hook up to public sewer and water lines in an effort to stem what county officials say is a public health hazard.

For years, Susan W. Turnbull has concentrated her political activism at the national level, undertaking myriad leadership roles that culminated with her election as vice chair of the Democratic National ...

Leaders of communities in Montgomery County hope the federal stimulus package winding its way through Congress spurs local construction projects such as a new senior center in Gaithersburg and a retaining wall ...

The head of the Montgomery Council this week called the bicounty Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission a six-member authority that "no longer works." Council President Philip M. Andrews joined with five ...

The County Council voted unanimously in favor of the Purple Line light rail project Tuesday, but also voted to request that the state examine using only one rail track in specific areas to minimize impacts on ...

Heavy commercial vehicles parked on nearly all county roads for more than 24 hours will be given $75 tickets starting July 1 after the County Council on Tuesday passed a law aimed curbing oversized, unsafe and ...