Montgomery Community Media

A driver crashed into a neighbor’s home in Wheaton causing significant damage to the house Wednesday afternoon. According to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service Spokesman Pete Piringer, the family living in the home off Loxford Terrace in Wheaton may be displaced from the home after a review of the damage by a building inspector. […]

UPDATED Say it isn’t so! The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory that hits the ground just as you do this morning. The advisory starts at 6 a.m. Wednesday and predicts one to three inches of snow. The snow is expected to fall later this morning and continue through the day. The […]

Woodmont Avenue, between Bethesda Avenue and Leland Street, and a new county parking garage in Bethesda, called the Capital Crescent Garage opened on Jan. 20. The garage, located at the intersection of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues on two former surface parking lots, is part of a public-private, mixed use development that added 250 residential units, […]

A new proposal in the county could make it easier for walkers to use sidewalks in the county. Councilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist.1) wants to limit the amount of time a sidewalk is off limits to pedestrians when it is part of a construction site. “If you are forcing people to walk where they are not […]

A new initiative to help seniors in the county with free safety evaluations showed that more than 90 percent of smoke alarms checked in the home visits were either not working on past their usable life span. The fire department recently launched a “Home Safety Check” program for seniors in the county. Initial results from […]

Around the country a college education is becoming more and more expensive. A new initiative from President Barack Obama to try to make college more affordable is winning fans nationally and locally.

Here are the Five Things You Need to Know Today, Jan. 15 in Montgomery County. 1- The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to meet this morning at 9:30 a.m. to discuss the county’s Commission on Aging’s study on “The Need to Improve Advocacy for Older Adults in Montgomery County Planning.” 2-A meeting of the Montgomery County […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra Council President George Leventhal shares his thoughts on a proposal by  President Barack Obama to make two years of community college free for responsible students, letting students earn the first half of a bachelor’s degree and earn skills needed in the workforce at no cost.  A full-time community college student could […]

As bulldozers and contractors continue to build out the Crown community in Gaithersburg, an Illinois real estate investment trust bought Downtown Crown at a $162.8 million price tag. Retail Properties of America, Inc. is the new owner of the retail portion of Downtown Crown, in Gaithersburg, the commercial core of the city’s newest planned community, buying it […]

Paragon Entertainment Holdings will be the new owner of the Kentlands Stadium 10 in Gaithersburg. Its new name- Paragon Kentlands 10. Paragon Theaters spokeswoman Niki Wilson confirmed to MyMcMedia Wednesday that the company “took over the theater noon on Tuesday.” She said negotiations have been underway with private owner Paul Huang for “a few months or […]