Montgomery Community Media

Residents in Quince Orchard Park and The Vistas are trying to get Gaithersburg officials to force the Churchill Group of Rockville to clean up a construction site residents say is dangerous and unsightly. About 180 Quince Orchard Park and Vistas residents signed the petition and presented it to the Mayor and Council during an Aug. […]

When Ahmed Kilani set out in his Quince Orchard Park neighborhood on a quest for ticks, he didn’t think they would be hard to find. He was right. On a hot day June 24, Dr. Kilani and a team of scientists from his company Clongen Laboratories, Inc. of Gaithersburg found 45 ticks in a tick drag […]

Restoration work is underway on the Izaak Walton Trail culvert and splitway in Gaithersburg after the roadway was partially washed away last month after some flooding rains. Gaithersburg Project Engineer Sandra Gross said the timeline of the project was moved up because of the damage to the roadway and the need to improve the drainage […]

It didn’t take long to find the first few ticks in a daylong tick hunt in Quince Orchard Park Tuesday. Dr. Ahmed Kilani, president of Clongen Laboratories of Gaithersburg, is on the hunt to find out if his neighborhood has a tick problem. He has 15 spots picked out to do the drag which consists […]

Dr. Ahmed Kilani gets about 25 ticks a day. They come to him in plastic baggies, via FedEx trucks and even hand delivered. That’s because his company Clongen Laboratories in Gaithersburg is one of the premier labs in the country that tests, label and catalogs ticks’ DNA for diseases like Lyme. Lately, tick bites in […]

Nearly two dozen residents of all ages took part in the Quince Orchard Park (QOP) community “Green Up Day” from 9 a.m. to noon on April 5 in the city of Gaithersburg. Organizers report that QOP volunteers picked up enough garbage to fill 18 trash bags and five additional bags full of recyclables. “Green Up […]

A quick video of a snow plow clearing the alley behind homes in the Quince Orchard Park community shortly before noon along Winter Walk Drive in Gaithersburg on Jan. 21: You can also see some photos (below) of the snow blanketing the neighborhood streets. Note the area’s mail delivery has not been impacted by the […]

This week’s extremely cold temperatures were too much for some water sprinkler pipes inside some condominium units at the Quince Orchard Park community of Gaithersburg. The frozen pipes burst — some on Jan. 7 and more on Jan. 8 — in some of the brick-front condominiums along Orchard Ridge Drive and Mill Green Avenue. “All […]

There is now more parkland in the city of Gaithersburg. That’s because MedImmune has conveyed a 6.5 acre parcel of land, known as the Meadows and located along Orchard Ridge Drive and adjacent to the Quince Orchard Park community, for use as parkland. In addition, city officials said MedImmune has contributed $200,000 towards park improvements. […]

Eighteen neighborhood and homeowner associations were awarded a total of $68,190 in matching grant funds from the city of Gaithersburg’s Frederick J. Felton Neighborhood Matching Grant Program. The program provides an incentive for neighborhood organizations to improve their communities by awarding matching grants of up to $5,000. According to city officials, $60,000 was budgeted for […]