Clarksburg News

Dan Gross/The Gazette Watkins Mill Road west of Rt 355 is a dead end that is currently used for parking by construction crews working nearby.

The simultaneous unlocking in April of 500 electronic cell doors at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds was triggered by a software upload and not by power outages, according to county officials.

Frustrated town officials have yet to set an annual town meeting as they try to work through discrepancies in the town's financial accounts.

The increase in Maryland's fuel tax, signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley last week, is projected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for Montgomery County road and transit projects.

Germantown, Upcounty A residential burglary was reported in the 11100 block of Sceptre Ridge Terrace in Germantown on Thursday, May 2, between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Forced entry; property taken.

At a worksession with the mayor and council at City Hall Monday evening, Bruce Johnston, Chief of the Montgomery County Division of Transportation Engineering, presented several options for an alternative to Md.

Bethesda-based Streetscape Partners and Massachusetts firm New England Development have signed a contract with Adventist HealthCare to acquire 47 acres in Clarksburg where they plan to build a nearly 450,000-square-foot outlet shopping center, the Washington Post reported.

At Monday evening's Gaithersburg Mayor and City Council work session, city officials will be briefed on future plans for the MidCounty Highway, according to the meeting agenda .

Councilman Craig L. Rice has asked Montgomery County to run a new bus line connecting Clarksburg to mass transit via the Germantown MARC train station.

Clarksburg Elementary School held its first Bike to School Day on Friday morning after about a year and a half of coordination.

The Montgomery County Public Schools system plans to start construction of a new middle school in June 2014 at the northwest corner of Little Seneca Parkway and Ridge Road in Clarksburg.

Montgomery County Public Schools have done it again-landing in top spots in a national ranking.

Clarksburg, Md., May 7, 2013 Thales Communications. Inc. has successfully completed the Department of Commerce's Public Safety Communications Research Phase 3 LTE Demonstration Network Test Plan, demonstrating interoperability of its public safety Long-Term Evolution solution.

Seven landscaping businesses based in Montgomery County were the first to be recognized as part of the county's Green Landscape Business Certification Program.

When Lewis Birnbaum, mid-Atlantic division president for Pulte Homes, found out that the Montgomery County Planning Board might be amending the Clarksburg Master Plan, he said, it hit him hard.

About 500 locks on cell doors simultaneously opened early Saturday inside the Montgomery County jail near Clarksburg, Md., prompting officials to declare a security emergency that included posting about 20 police cars on the perimeter of the facility.

About 500 locks on cell doors simultaneously opened inside Montgomery County's main jail early Saturday morning, prompting officials to declare a security emergency that included posting about 20 police cars along the perimeter of the facility near Clarksburg.