Olney News

Among the many events of the annual Olney Days celebration, the annual Pancake Race has grown in popularity.

We hugged, laughed, took photos and strolled around in perfect May weather. The Channel 9 reunion day at the Olney Farmers & Artists Market turned out as Mary Lou Donahue imagined it would.

Police say 61-year-old Patricia Greer Parks rear-ended another car as it slowed for traffic in front of her at the intersection of Rockville Pike and Old Georgetown Road around 7:35 a.m. When officers arrived on the scene they found Parks outside of her 2000 Chrysler Sebring surveying the situation.

Terri Hogan/The Gazette Brad Graybill, an employee of Fletcher's Service Center, hangs a flag along Georgia Avenue in preparation for this weekend's Olney Days celebration.

OLNEY, Md. - A woman walking her mother's adult Rottweiler watched in horror as a neighbor who greeted her was attacked by the dog.

They were walking in the 2100 block of Rose Theatre Circle in Olney, Md., when for an unknown reason the dog attacked her and bit her lips off.

This year, May 19, 2012, marks the 10th anniversary of the Annual Joe's Ride and Stride local fundraiser to be held at Oakdale Emory Church on Georgia Avenue in Olney, MD.

This is the time of year when good news from Baltimore area private schools is constantly being shared.

It happened at around 6:50 a.m. on Rt. 108 at Zion Road, just north of Olney, police said.

On top of the 74 roads designated as protected under the county's speed camera enforcement program, county police are adding 18 locations where cameras may be placed: - 10400 Block of Tenbrook Drive in Silver Spring - 10900 Block of Kingstead Road in Damascus - 13500 Block of Layhill Road in Silver Spring - 14600 Block of Homecrest Road in Aspen ... (more)

A park facility that once housed an elementary school nature program still faces an uncertain future.A For about 13 years, elementary schools in the Paint Branch High cluster, plus Charles Drew Elementary , used Maydale Nature Center and its adjacent green space, Maydale Conservation Park , for an early childhood nature program operated by ... (more)