Sandy Spring News

Button Farm in Germantown is an authentic 1850s farm which sits on 40 acres inside Seneca Creek Park.

One local community is celebrating its historic treasures with the stroke of a paintbrush.

Laurel resident Annie Matthews has spent nearly a century walking. As a child, she walked five miles from her family's home in Brookeville to school in Brighton.

As part of the Fall History Lecture Series at Montpelier Mansion, Elizabeth Garrettson of the Sandy Spring Museum will deliver a lecture titled, "Quakers and Slavery in Early Maryland" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at 9650 Muirkirk Road in Laurel.

Montgomery County and Sandy Spring Builders have a unique opportunity to advance stormwater control and prevent further damage to Cabin John Creek when plans are approved for three new homes on a hilltop site in Bethesda's Greenwich Forest neighborhood.

Hattie Washington, president and founder of Aunt Hattie's Place, takes part in the foundation-laying ceremony for her latest home for foster boys in Sandy Spring.

Hundreds of thousands of Maryland students are headed back to class Monday. Drivers are urged to be extra cautious as students go back in Montgomery, Howard and Baltimore counties, as well as Baltimore City.

City police arrested a Glen Burnie man last week on fraud and drug charges after he allegedly tried to make a withdrawal from a flagged account at an Annapolis bank, police said.

Lynda Cooper, 29, of Germantown promenaded through Gaithersburg's Bohrer Park wearing a hoop skirt, calico green dress and crocheted black snood, a hair adornment that kept her locks pulled back and tidy.

Sandy Spring Museum volunteer Paula Fangboner, left, and exhibit director Margaret Wintz prepare an exhibit for the weekend event.

As "June- rose, by May- dew" was being "impearled" that spring of 1909, the Ellicott City natives were restless.

Holly Steel, who served as assistant principal of Clearspring Elementary School in Damascus prior to this school year, will return to the school in July as principal.

Jesse Ngassa and Malek Petit-Homme, third-graders at Glenallan Elementary School in Wheaton, show off their poster that won a third-place award in the county Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Solid Waste Services' annual poster contest.

About two years ago, anticipating a visit to Susan Murphy, a little girl asked her mother, "Are we going to the art house?" Hearing about the child's question inspired the Sandy Spring watercolorist, teacher and gallery owner to change the name of her Falling Acorns Studio to ARThouse.

Bethesda developers The Artery Group will be back before the Montgomery County Planning Board tomorrow afternoon to vie for final approval of a sprawling 314-acre a oeplanned communitya at the Prince Georgea s County line in Burtonsville.

Alex Violagis, a junior at Winston Churchill High School, talks with admissions counselor Evin Linn from The University of Arizona at the Montgomery County National College Fair April 15 at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center in Gaithersburg.

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Capt. Bob Daley, of Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Station 4 in Sandy Spring, tests Class A Foam at the training academy.

Silver Spring resident Candice Sinai weighs produce at Victor Landa's Spiritual Food community supported agriculture program, which Landa runs out of the garage at his Chevy Chase home.