Montgomery Community Media

Hold on to your Valentine! There’s a high wind watch in effect from 6 p.m. Saturday through noon on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Wind gusts could reach up to 60 mph. That’s a strong enough wind to knock down trees, powerlines and minor structures and make driving high profile vehicles difficult. A […]

Here’s a list of things in the county that are open and some that are not on Monday, Feb. 16: Presidents Day. County Offices – closed Libraries – closed County liquor stores – closed Recreation – aquatic facilities and community centers open; aquatics programs will meet as scheduled; all other classes and programs cancelled; administrative […]

Before the Washington Wizards took on the Toronto Raptors, the Safety Patrol group and choir from Spark Matsunaga Elementary School in Germantown and Officer John Johnson MCP School Safety Police Coordinator sang the American and Canadian National Anthems. The performance was part of Safety Patrol Night with the Washington Wizards held at the Verizon Center January 31. http://youtu.be/HmsKqasfjDU […]

UPDATED – The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission truck driver who hit and killed a bicyclist along Darnestown Road has been charged with two traffic tickets in the accident. The accident on Nov. 24 at about 9:45 a.m. killed Andrew Gerard Malizio,60, of the 300 block of Hart Road in Gaithersburg. The man who hit him, […]

Seneca Valley’s English teacher Albert Song was just named Winston Churchill High School’s football coach. Song is a 1996 Churchill graduate, who has spent the past six years as an assistant coach for Seneca Valley High School and the team’s offensive coordinator the past two seasons. Prior to coaching at Seneca Valley, Song was an […]

White Flint has a new name and advocates are hoping a new identity too. It’s now being called the Pike District and it’s a rebranding of sorts for an area as it morphs from a suburban sprawl to a new urbanism community. MyMCMedia’s Krista Brick has the report.   Only one tenant is left inside […]

The recommendation to reduce Montgomery County’s voting age to allow 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote earned two supporters on the Montgomery County Council. The Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee  which includes councilmember Hans Riemer, Nancy Navarro and Sidney Katz heard a report and recommendations of the Right to Vote Task Force Thursday. The […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education is heading up to Germantown to meet with the Seneca Valley cluster community on Thursday and Principal Marc Cohen said he believes the community will be advocating for a new high school. The meet and greet event starts at 7 p.m. in the Seneca Valley High School media center. […]

Olympian and world-record holder Katie Ledecky swam her last meet as a senior for Stone Ridge High School at the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Championships in Germantown Feb. 5-7. Hear her thoughts on her high school career in this new briefing after the meet.

There could be a big change in the way alcohol is sold here in Montgomery County if county leaders buy into one of the changes suggested by the Montgomery County’s Office of Legislative Oversight. A report released Tuesday by the Montgomery County’s Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) that analyzes the County’s Department of Liquor Control […]