Montgomery Community Media

Here’s your daily look at the events and stories that people are talking about today, May 19, in Montgomery County: 1. There’s a groundbreaking set today for the Gaithersburg headquarters of Emergent Biosolutions. 2. Did you see who was named Montgomery County PTA President of the Year last night? 3. On Thursday county executives from […]

As Governor Larry Hogan is expected to meet with Mont­gomery County Executive Isiah Leggett and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III on Thursday about the Purple Line, Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal told the media Monday nixing the project now would like kicking the two largest counties in the shins. Leventhal said he has […]

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal talks about the impact of the Wynne case decision on the county’s current and future budgets. Levethal said he believes the fiscal year $10 million impact from the Wynne case can be absorbed by the reserve fund. However, he said the county’s financial standing should be reexamined by mid-year […]

The president of the Montgomery County Education Association, one of the organizations helping to select the next Montgomery County Public Schools’ superintendent, says he was disappointed the group only got to meet one candidate for the job. The educators’ union was one of more than a dozen organizations the Montgomery County School Board invited to […]

A day after the Montgomery County School Board’s top choice for superintendent withdrew his name for the job, Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal talks about the options now on the table for the school board to fill that top post.

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal met with the media Monday and talked about the recent developments in the Purple Line, the Exelon-Pepco merger and the search for the next superintendent of the county’s school system. You can watch that news briefing in its entirety here.

For three days at the end of May, 750 large American flags are expected to fly on the lawn at Bohrer Park. The flags will be displayed from May 22 to 25 at Bohrer Park at Summit Hall Farm on South Frederick Avenue. They will be put in place by the Rotary Clubs of Montgomery Village […]

Montgomery County Police are waiting for an autopsy report to find out why a Burtonsville man died at the hospital two days after an officer shocked  him with a stun gun. Dajuan Graham, 40 of Burtonsville, died on May 12. An officer used a stun gun on him on May 10, after police say he would not obey […]

Montgomery County Board of Education President Patricia O’Neill talks about the impact of the fiscal constraints of the fiscal 2016 budget saying the result will be an increase in class size.

UPDATED May 17, 10:30 a.m. Montgomery County Police say they have charged Scott Michael Tomaszewski with first degree murder in the deaths of Richard and Julianna Vilardo. More details are expected to be released at a news conference at 12:30 p.m. today.         ORIGINAL POST There has been an arrest in the […]