Montgomery Community Media

About 35 people are signed up to testify this afternoon before the Montgomery County Council about the proposed Fiscal Year 2016 operating budget. The meeting is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. and on the list of speakers are Takoma Park Mayor Bruce William and Montgomery County Planning Board Chairman Casey Anderson. How the Montgomery […]

A man is under arrest this morning in connection with the vandalism of the Shaare Torah Synagogue on Main Street in Gaithersburg. Montgomery County Police announced Wednesday morning that the man was arrested this morning but provided no additional details. More information is expected at noon. Last week police said they had identified a “person of […]

The Montgomery County School Board stopped short of ordering a feasibility study on the former English Manor Elementary School as a possible location for the county’s Alternative Education Program Tuesday, instead opening up the options to about a dozen county sites and commercial facilities. The board did vote to go ahead with a revised feasibility […]

Like Cinderella at the ball, time ran out for the Student Member of the Montgomery County Board of Education last night. At the stroke of midnight the General Assembly closed up shop for another year and with it went the Montgomery County Delegation bill to allow the student representative on the county’s board of education […]

Electronic cigarettes may look like a traditional cigarette and they might be taxed in Montgomery County the same way too. Today, Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker introduced a bill that would establish an excise tax on the distribution of electronic cigarette products. If approved, Montgomery County would join other states and localities that are regulating […]

For a little while in Beallsville there was a woman possessed by the devil wandering around. Fortunately for this community, she was an actress playing a part in a Lifetime series reportedly due out in July called, “I am Possessed” and the film crew used the Monacacy Cemetery Chapel in the show. The chapel on […]

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) is warning consumers about lead contamination found in Bo-Ying Compound manufactured by Eu Yan Sang (Hong Kong), a powdered product marketed for the treatment of a wide array of conditions in infants and children. DHMH is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and public […]

Coming off a loss in their first game of the 2015 season against the Houston Dash, the Washington Spirit is on home field Saturday for its season home opener at Maureen Hendricks Field at 7 p.m. The team fell to the Dash 2-0 April 10. It’s unclear whether defender Ali Krieger will be on the field […]

Both the Blair G. Ewing Center and the former English Manor Elementary School site are the two locations proposed to be evaluated for the county school system’s Alternative Education Program. The Montgomery County Board of Education is expected to vote on a proposal by Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers Tuesday that suggests that feasibility studies should be […]

Austin Cohen has cancer but that’s not what he wants you to know about him. He loves football, hanging out with his friends from Quince Orchard High School, snapchating and photography and a list of other fun things teenagers do. “I don’t think the story is the QO ex-football player or Gaithersburg teen who has cancer. I think […]