Montgomery Community Media

County Executive Ike Leggett assured a questioner Thursday that he has no plans to take a job with Amazon. And managed to get in some executive-level trolling in, to boot. “William from Silver Spring” wrote in: “Sir, What is your preferred job title for when you go work for Amazon after you leave office?” Leggett […]

Montgomery County police is one of 26 police forces across the country that has accepted a challenge from the Police Foundation for releasing hate crime information. The information is available through the website the county operates to release data, datamontgomery. It can be viewed here. The data show six incidents so far in 2018 and […]

Montgomery County residents and businesses could have greater access for solar arrays creating electricity from sunshine. Councilmembers Tom Hucker, George Leventhal and Marc Elrich have introduced a zoning text amendment that will allow solar installations with a capacity of up to 2 megawatts — enough electricity to power 200 nearby homes. “Nearly everyone agrees we’re […]

A dozen or more of Hank Dietle’s regulars clustered outside the tavern Wednesday afternoon, remembering the bar they frequented. “It was like a relic of bygone days,” said Tom, who didn’t want to give his last name. “A true bar from the 50s.” Here are images of the aftermath of the Wednesday night fire that […]

Silver Spring police district detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred Wednesday morning in that community, a police statement said. About 6:17 a.m., Silver Spring district officers responded to the area of the 8500 block of Piney Branch Road for the report of an assault that had just occurred, police said. Upon arrival, first responders […]

Hank Dietle’s Tavern, a historic watering hole on Rockville Pike near the site of the former White Flint Mall, sustained a major fire early Wednesday morning. The fire was blamed on discarded smoking materials left on the front porch, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer. On his Twitter feed, Piringer said […]

County executive candidate David Blair said Tuesday he believes the county can help seniors with their prescriptions by pointing out discount programs and looking for drug interactions. He first discussed the idea at a Leisure World event last week. Here he is talking about the plan at his Rockville headquarters: On Tuesday he talked with […]

Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein sent a memo to the county’s 2,700 career and volunteer personnel over unacceptable conduct and interactions between fire personnel and contract custodial staff. Goldstein said the incidents occurred in six stations across the county. They were newer stations, which fell under a county custodial contract. Here’s the memo he […]

Metro funding and small cell antennas dominated Montgomery County Council President Hans Riemer’s “meet the media” session on Feb. 12.

The Montgomery County Council will begin considering a zoning text amendment that would create an approach for the county to deal small cell phone infrastructure. Current rules handle towers hundreds of feet tall that need hundreds of feet of setbacks. The industry, however, has been pushing toward smaller antennas, often on existing utility poles. The […]