Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue workers are on the scene of a 250-gallon fuel spill in the lower level of a parking garage in the Market East area of Pike District. MCFRS Spokesman Pete Piringer reported the incident at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Md. 355 between Nicholson Lane and Security Lane in the Pike District […]

A seventh grade student at Colonel E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring died Monday from what Montgomery County Public Schools officials say are self-inflicted injuries. Detectives from Montgomery County Police-Major Crimes Division are investigating the death as a suicide. At about 2:29 p.m., 4th District officers and Fire Rescue Personnel were dispatched to […]

It is the hottest meet of the season for high school swimmers in Montgomery County and this year’s Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships in Germantown did not disappoint. There were fans with signs, coaches the crazy pants, seniors making their last reach for the wall. And, oh yes, there was an Olympian there […]

Stone Ridge’s swim coach Bob Walker shares his thoughts on what it has been like having an Olympic athlete and world record-holder on his team.

Melanie Sasse talks about the significance of the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships (Metros) in Montgomery County in this MyMCMedia Extra.

The Winston Churchill High School girls swim team won Metros held in February in Germantown. Coach Chris Tappis talks about why the program has a history of success in this MyMcMedia Extra.

Stone Ridge High School swim coach Bob Walker talks about the influence Katie Ledecky will have on swimming in Montgomery County in this MyMCMedia Extra.

U.S. Rep. John Delaney is reaching out to the Federal Bureau of Investigations to determine if more can be done to find the missing Hoggle children. Troy Turner, father of the missing Hoggle toddlers, met with Delaney last week at the congressman’s D.C. office. “As his federal representative our staff is reaching out to the […]

Setting records is something Olympian Katie Ledecky is used to doing. This weekend she set two at the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Championship held at the Germantown Aquatic Center. Ledecky, a senior at Stone Ridge, set a new American High School record in the women’s 500 freestyle with her 4:26:58 performance Friday and on Saturday she […]

For the fifth time, the Montgomery Philharmonic and local Montgomery County Public School students in the Watkins Mill cluster are making beautiful music together. Watkins Mill High School hosted a benefit concert Monday night to raise funds for the instrumental music program. And they are getting help with fundraising and fine tuning their skills thanks […]