Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Small Business Series’ featured speaker is Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal. Watch his presentation here:

Jut how safe it is to walk along Woodmont Avenue in Bethesda? A group of researchers are taking a look today and Thursday. An audit group is taking a walk down Woodmont Avenue to see how safe it is to be a pedestrian there. The pedestrian safety audit includes Woodmont Avenue between Old Georgetown Road […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today heralded the release of Marylander Alan Gross from his imprisonment in Cuba since December 3, 2009. “I was so pleased to be at Andrews AFB this morning to welcome Alan Gross as he touched ground back in the United States of America. ‎I am so honored to be […]

Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-8th) issued the following statement announcing Alan Gross’s return home and President Barack Obama’s opening to Cuba: “Today, it brings me great joy to join with Judy Gross and Senators Leahy and Flake to bring my friend Alan Gross home from Cuba after his five years in prison. This day […]

UPDATED: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement at noon today on the release of Alan Gross from a Cuban prison. Marylander Alan Gross has been released from a Cuban prison and is on his way back to the U.S. You can watch the statement here. http://youtu.be/kktCw28xDlI According to media reports,  Gross was […]

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and County Councilmember Craig Rice are scheduled to break ground on Phase II of Churchill Senior Living in Germantown on Thursday. The project will feature 133 senior units – 121 of them affordable housing and 12 market-rate units. Thirty units will be one-bedroom and 103 units will be two-bedroom. Financing […]

Costco should not be given a special exception to construct a 16-pump gas station on its property in Wheaton, according to  a hearing examiner with the Montgomery County Board of Appeals. The report by Martin L. Grossman, hearing examiner and director for the Office of Zoning and Administrative Hearings, was released late last week. According to the […]

The Western Upper Montgomery County HELP Inc. is scrambling to make sure none of the more than 350 kids it serves goes without a Christmas gift this year. “We are currently in a “toy crisis”,” said Cathy Beliveau, WUMCO executive director. Beliveau said WUMCO got half the amount of toys requested from Toys For Tots distribution facility […]

Montgomery County firefighters had to resuscitate several cats after a small fire at a home off Aquarius Drive today. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesman Pete Piringer reported the fire at 3012 Aquarius Drive about 3 p.m. today. It displaced two of the people who lived there and at least seven cats. Several more are […]

If you need a little Christmas…you can find it in Kentlands. This private home display in Gaithersburg has 18,600 lights timed to dance to music. It’s the work of Mike Draghici who built his first display in 2012. For each 30 seconds of the synchronized show, Draghici says it takes up to 1.5 hours to […]