Darnestown News

The Seneca Academy could become the first private school in the state to offer an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.

I was alerted to this video on the BikeWashington listserv. What it purports to be is a video of unsafe cyclists at an intersection in the Darnestown and Seneca areas.

Students in the Quilt Club at Spark M. Matsunaga Elementary School in Germantown made and donated 28 quilts to groups that serve those in need.

A motorcycle collided with a firetruck Saturday afternoon at an annual event for injured soldiers at Whites Ferry, said Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.

My colleague Dan de Vise's wonderful piece Tuesday about the Darnestown, Md., student who never missed a day of school has had a terrific reaction.

After 56 years of being an informal hub of the equestrian community in Potomac, The Surrey, Inc.

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials were monitoring Seneca Creek today as the heavy rain was expected to cause the creek to crest near flood level tonight.

Cal Ripken, Iron Man of the Baltimore Orioles, played in 2,632 consecutive baseball games.

This colonial is in the Ancient Oak neighborhood near Darnestown. Set on 1.65 lush acres in Ancient Oak, a community on the edge of Darnestown adjacent to Seneca Creek State Park, this stately 1979 home has been greatly enhanced with many upgrades plus a spectacular screened porch featuring a hot tub.

Jonathan Perez, a fifth-grader at Gaithersburg Elementary School, learns how to play Boggle with mentor Len Taylor.

Pianist Devin Osborne, a junior at Northwest High, was one of 100 high school students from across the country selected to participate in the second annual Disney's Dreamers Academy at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.

Seneca Academy students Julie Constantinescu, 10, of Germantown, Julie Hirschfeld, 11, of Bethesda, and Stephen Skelton, 10, of Germantown plant a sensory garden at the Darnestown school.

If you were a pet, you'd want to have an owner like Erica Corson. Emilio the cockatiel flew away from his Darnestown, Maryland home Wednesday.

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

The Connelly School of the Holy Child hopes to build a new, state-of-the-art artificial turf field that will offer their athletic program a new level of flexibility by allowing teams to practice and play regardless of weather conditions.

A proposed heritage park honoring Civil War soldiers and Darnestown founding fathers received $656,000 for park improvements after the state Board of Public Works approved the funding March 18.

County Executive Isiah Leggett and Johns Hopkins University have used this rendering to represent what a "Science City" in Shady Grove might look like.

County Executive in Car Crash On Sunday, March 1 County Executive Isiah Leggett was involved in a car crash in Burtonsville, Md.

Bo Duke competes in a contest at Montgomery College-Germantown on Friday to raise money for students who will help rebuild homes in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

On a strangely warm Saturday afternoon in February, a chowhound's thoughts turn to...barbecue. Located in what was formerly a small convenience store , Uncle Charlie's Backyard Barbecue is on Seneca Road about ...