Montgomery Community Media

Three fourth-graders are winners of the City of Gaithersburg’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary Arts Contest. For the 24th year the City of Gaithersburg and The Gazette Newspapers have teamed up to sponsor the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary Arts Contest for Gaithersburg area students. This year more than 175 young people addressed […]

“This wouldn’t have been on my top 1,000 fears in life.” Yet, one month ago today, a jet plane headed from North Carolina to the Montgomery County Airpark sliced through two houses in a Gaithersburg neighborhood, the wing shearing off and into Ken Gemmell’s home that he shared with his wife Marie and their two sons, […]

Its got action, loud music, burning buildings and car crashes, but it isn’t a new TV drama. It’s the Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department  recruiting video  that chronicles the work firefighters do to encourage new members to join the department. The department at 13900 Old Columbia Pike in Silver Spring uses live-in volunteers to augment a paid […]

Montgomery County District Court Judge Eugene Wolfe signed an order this week declaring Catherine Hoggle, who is charged in the disappearance of her two young children, incompetent to stand trial. The order is a judicial finding of incompetency. Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, where Hoggle is being treated for mental illness, previously found her medically […]

UPDATED, Jan. 6, 4 p.m. – Police have identified the man hit and killed by a MARC train on Monday as 18-year-old Mario Ernesto Hernandez of Gaithersburg. Police said at about 4:12 p.m. on Jan. 5, officers from the 6th District , the Gaithersburg Police Department and Montgomery County Fire Rescue personnel responded for the report […]

Montgomery County Public Schools should start and end 20 minutes later, according to a new proposal from Superintendent Dr. Joshua Starr. Starr is expected to release his proposal to the school board on Jan. 13. According to a memo from Starr to the Board of Education, the “most practicable of the no-cost options is for […]

UPDATED, Jan. 6 – 5:43 p.m. Montgomery County Police is reporting on its Twitter account that officers have responded to more than 100 property damage and personal injury collisions today. Since 5am, MCP officers have responded to approximately 100 property damage/personal injury collisions. — Montgomery Co Police (@mcpnews) January 6, 2015 UPDATED, Jan. 6, 1:22 […]

A Rockville teen died Monday after she was hit and killed by a car while walking at the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and Parkland Drive in Rockville Monday evening. According to police, Beza Amare Eshetu of the 12500 block of Veirs Mill Road had just gotten off a bus at about 6 p.m. and […]

The final bell has not yet tolled on the idea to change start and end times in Montgomery County public schools. On Tuesday, Superintendent Joshua P. Starr will release several options for changing school starting and ending times, or bell times. The Montgomery County Board of Education will consider the options and receive public feedback […]

Break out those boots and mittens you got as holiday gifts. It looks like you are going to need them this week. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for our area from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. The Service said the heaviest will come right about 6 a.m. to 11 a.m., […]