Montgomery Community Media

The BlackRock Center for the Arts is naming its Main Gallery- The Kay Gallery- at a reception Sunday after getting an unprecedented gift from Upper Montgomery County residents Lauren and Rick Pollin. The Kay Gallery will be named in memory of Lauren Pollin’s parents Jack and Ina Kay. The Kays were great supporters of Jewish, […]

Here are five things to know today, March 5, in Montgomery County: 1. First Lady Michelle Obama joined MCPS students for a mental health summit Wednesday. 2. Congressman Chris Van Hollen is officially making a bid for Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s seat in the Senate. 3. Ridgeview’s Middle School Principal was named Maryland’s Principal of the Year. 4. Montgomery County Councilman […]

Montgomery County Public Schools and all administrative offices are closed today due to emergency weather conditions, according to the MCPS website. All school and community activities in school buildings are canceled. That decision was posted at 4:25 a.m. MCPS was one of the last areas schools to make the decision to close today. When asked […]

UPDATED, March 5, 9 a.m. – Thursday’s forecasted storm has caused some cancellations and closures. The area is under a winter storm warning until 7 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service. Snow and sleet is predicted to fall this morning becoming all snow after 7 a.m. Temperature falling to around 26 by 4 p.m. North […]

Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-8th) has announced he will run for Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s seat in the senate. Mikulski said she will not run for reelection in 2016. Van Hollen made his announcement via his Facebook page. The announcement reads as follows: “I am excited to share that I have decided to run […]

It is “highly unlikely we will have school tomorrow.” That is according to MCPS’s spokesman Dana Tofig who told MyMCMedia Wednesday that if snow accumulation predictions are accurate school will likely be cancelled Thursday. “If it is a foot that is a lot of snow that has to be moved around,” Tofig said. Forecasters are […]

Rockville has put in place parking restrictions and altered refuse and recycling collections in advance of a winter storm headed this way. The city declared a snow emergency that requires all vehicles to be removed from Rockville roads, including neighborhood streets, by 9 p.m. tonight. This is in preparation for a storm that is expected […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker, who is a member of the Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment (T and E) Committee is expected to testify before the House Environment and Transportation Committee in the Maryland General Assembly today against a bill that would repeal the State’s Stormwater Management—Watershed Protection and Restoration Program. Hucker was the lead […]

First Lady Michelle Obama is at the Newseum in D.C. this morning at the official launch of the Change Direction Initiative-a mental health summit and local advocacy group UMTTR is participating in the discussion. The Change Direction initiative is a collection of concerned citizens, nonprofit leaders, and leaders from the private sector who have come together to create […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal discusses the OLO report on the Department of Liquor Control and where things are headed. http://youtu.be/Pyzcqm50PwE