Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County police detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a naked man who tried to burgle a home in Bethesda. The incident occurred Saturday, May 17, in the 5100 block of Newport Avenue, according to a police statement. Home surveillance exposed the naked man, who was walking around the yard, looking into […]

Lots of public safety news appears in MyMCMedia’s Top 10 stories this week. People seemed to want to know about where state troopers were setting up DUI checkpoints, bottle bombs on an upcounty trail, a murder, a garbage truck fire that closed a major commuter artery, details on a double armed robbery and a house […]

Del. Bill Frick’s website says he’s running for Congress. When contacted by MyMCMedia on Friday, Frick would provide few details. “We’re not looking for press,” he said. The three-term delegate said he would not run against Rep. John Delaney, the Democratic incumbent for the 6th Congressional District. Delaney may give up the seat to seek […]

Montgomery County is losing its first innovation officer. Dan Hoffman, who had been in the job since 2012, is leaving to become an assistant city manager for Gainesville, Florida. The position is responsible for creating and maintaining strategies and programs that generate innovative ideas. The programs Hoffman oversees try to improve service delivery and create […]

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement, sparked local officials to take to Twitter: Reneging on #ParisAccord harms our standing as a world leader, risks our economy, & threatens the world that our descendants must inhabit. — Brian Frosh, Former Attorney General of Maryland […]

Rockville city police are looking for a thief who ran out of a store with 31 pairs of designer jeans. According to the police crime summary, a man entered a store in the 1600 block of Rockville Pike, between 3:39 p.m. and 3:44 p.m. May 28. The person walked over to a display and removed […]

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner will announce his 2018 bid for county executive at an event in North Bethesda on Wednesday, June 7, his campaign announced Thursday. The event, at 7 p.m., will be at Owen’s Ordinary, 11820 Trade St, inside the Pike & Rose community. The campaign says it will release the names […]

Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn ordered Purple Line Transit Partners, the company chosen to build and operate the Purple Line light-rail transit link, to suspend new construction contracts and freeze hiring of construction staff. The order is one of seven steps Rahn took because of an “unknown timeline for appeal” and dwindling resources. PLTP also […]

Montgomery County and the contractors who built the Silver Spring Transit Center reached a settlement, County Executive Ike Leggett said Tuesday. The county will receive $25 million from the engineering firms Parsons Brinckerhoff and Robert B. Balter Company, and the Facchina Construction Co. Once they pay, the county will pay Foulger Pratt $3 million, according […]

A pair of “drain-o bomb” devices were found along the Clarksburg Heights Trail, according to a statement from Montgomery Parks. The devices were found about 10:18 a.m. Tuesday, May 16, on the trail, which is in Little Seneca Greenway Stream Park, the statement said. The devices combine drain cleaner, water and aluminum in a plastic bottle. […]