Sandy Spring News

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.

Montgomery County's first public community gardens will come to Takoma Park and Sandy Spring next month but a proposed site for south Silver Spring was removed from plans due to complaints from residents who said the county did not involve them in the planning process.

As part of its plans to restore a historic home on its athletic park along Olney-Laytonsville Road, the Olney Boys and Girls Community Sports Association is requesting a state bond bill for $500,000 for the ...

February 09, 2009 Transportation Management Services , a Sandy Spring, Md.-based provider of event transportation services for clients in the meetings and events industry, has launched a new Carbon Offset ...

SALISBURY - Sandy Spring Bancorp, the parent company of the bank that foreclosed on and then bought at auction a riverfront Salisbury condo building, has reported a $3.8 million loss for the fourth quarter.

THE FARMERS MARKETS are quiet. Though there's no snow on the ground just yet, anyone who's been outside recently can tell that it's not the time to be growing verdant fields of produce.

" The case of a high-school girl who stabbed another student to death after a 2005 football game in Montgomery County came before the Court of Appeals last week, with the girl's lawyer arguing that she is ...

Montgomery County Police issued an arrest warrant early this month for the man they believe is responsible for the murder of a 22-year-old woman in Sandy Spring last month.

Nine Montgomery County parks will be closed from sunset to sunrise through March 31 so that Park Police sharpshooters can thin the deer population.

A 22-year-old woman was shot to death in a Sandy Spring parking lot last week after an argument between two groups of acquaintances, but detectives are still trying to find a motive, police said.