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After emptying West Deer Park Apartments of 198 tenants more than a year ago to make way for a new and improved townhouse project, a developer has won city approval to upgrade and re-rent the units.

Every December for 10 years, Melvin Spriggs has strung 20,000 Christmas lights around Gaithersburg’s Ty-Gwinn apartment complex, helping to brighten tenants’ holidays.

Instead of an out-of-town retreat, the Gaithersburg Mayor and City Council will host its annual strategic planning retreat in the city in January, allowing residents to attend the meetings.

The county’s emergency communications system was disrupted for three hours on Sunday, keeping an unknown number of people from reaching 911 for help.

It was the second time in recent months residents experienced difficulties calling 911.

State highway officials told a handful of Derwood residents last week that they could expect some dirt and traffic delays as construction on the Intercounty Connector begins in Derwood and Olney.

The nine suspects charged in gang-related attacks that occurred in the span of one week in November and left one man dead have been indicted by a grand jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

To combat the growing and increasingly complex presence of gangs in the upcounty, county officials are pushing for the creation of a youth center that would offer support and alternatives for young people exposed to or involved in gangs.

The Derwood teenager who lost three members of his family to a fire last week returned to classes Tuesday, just days after his younger brother, mother and grandmother were laid to rest.

Highway planners have unveiled their four recommended alternatives to the current alignment of M-83, a controversial proposal to extend Midcounty Highway north from Montgomery Village into Clarksburg.

Mary Butts Ward, 96, a longtime city leader and Gaithersburg resident since 1930, died Monday at the Wilson Health Care Center in Asbury Methodist Village.