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MD--Montgomery-Detention Center
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett favors replacing an aging detention center in Rockville rather than renovating it.
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State parks to get online reservation system
The state parks system will introduce a full-service Internet and call center reservations system in 2009 for nearly 3,000 campsites, picnic shelters, cabins, community buildings and other facilities.
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Leggett plan would build new facility at Seven Locks
As part of his Smart Growth Initiative, County Executive Isiah Leggett has proposed a new Criminal Justice Complex at the end of Seven Locks Road in Rockville to replace the current facility, shown here.
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Reservations for state park use will go online in '09
The state parks system will introduce a full-service, online and call-center reservation system in 2009 for its nearly 3,000 campsites, as well as picnic shelters, cabins, community buildings and other ...
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Hanson: County needs urban model
Montgomery County needs to adopt an urban development model to handle growth, demographic changes and a diminishing supply of developable land, Planning Board Chairman Royce Hanson told the Montgomery County ...
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More parking, bus service needed for MARC station
The Germantown MARC station needs more parking and bus service to serve a surprisingly high number of riders from other communities, the chairman of the Planning Board said Tuesday.
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Clarksburg Town Center to get more parking
Montgomery County planners recommended a solution for the Clarksburg Town Center parking issue: more parking spaces.
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A greener Christmas
Clarksburg High School junior Dante Johnson carries one of the Christmas centerpieces his horticulture class is making.
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Council member's rapid bus system on transit table
Some area officials seem to be warming to the possibility of a rapid bus system in the county as another method of relieving congestion on some of the county's most clogged roadways.
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Timber! - A Guide to Local Christmas Tree Farms in Washington
The holidays are all about tradition - baking cookies, singing carols, hanging lights.
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Food available for modest donation of money and time
Hannah Cagas, 15, of Howard County and Vanya Nah, 13, of Rockville load boxes filled with food into the back of a car at Greenridge Baptist Church in Clarksburg on Saturday.
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Editorial: Leading edge
Government at the state and local level should be encouraging the development and use of small renewable generating systems such as wind turbines.
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Officer injured, fired shots near church service
Montgomery County police are investigating an incident that unfolded outside a church service and ended with an officer shooting at a vehicle.
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Teen Charged After Police Shooting Near Md. Church
Montgomery County police have arrested a 16-year-old and charged him with first-degree assault after he drove an SUV into an officer in a Gaithersburg church parking lot Wednesday night, police said.
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Second man sentenced for carjackings, murder
The man who a prosecutor called "probably one of the worst predators that this county has seen in recent memory" was sentenced to 85 years in prison last week for murder and two carjackings and kidnappings.
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November 24, 2008 - Planned Community Combines Green With Universal Design
In Clarksburg, Md., Winchester Homes, Inc. is putting the finishing touches on the first of the hundreds of units it will be building over the next few years in the planned community of Clarksburg Village .
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Police Report
The following is a summary of incidents in the upcounty to which the Montgomery County Police responded recently.
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Natural Power: Marylanders negotiate government rules to install windmills
In response to rising utility costs and encouraged by the state's desire to lower its carbon footprint, Jeane and Joseph Flesch thought it would be ideal to install a small wind turbine next to their remodeled ...
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Police plan series of community meetings in 2009
About 40 upcounty residents were reminded to watch out for one another and urged to get out and meet their neighbors during a forum with public safety officials in Germantown last week.
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Leggett to confront Clarksburg issues at town meeting Thursday
County Executive Isiah Leggett is expecting to get barraged with questions about the special taxing districts planned in Clarksburg at his town hall meeting Thursday night.
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