Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED: The fund  created to help the Gemmell family who lost Marie Gemmell and her two young sons tragically Monday when a plane crashed into their Gaithersburg home, has topped $175,000 as  of 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. More than 4,000 people have donated on the The Go Fund Me page. All of the funds raised will be donated […]

Superintendent Joshua P. Starr is recommending a $2.4 billion operating budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, which includes $103.6 million in additional spending that will allow Montgomery County Public Schools  to manage its continued growth, narrow achievement gaps, and prepare students for the future. Starr presented his recommendation to the Montgomery County Board of Education […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Education Committee has scheduled a worksession for Feb. 2, to talk about the Montgomery County Public Schools’ policies and procedures regarding child abuse allegations that occur on school property. The worksession was scheduled in response to community concerns regarding MCPS delays in informing the respective school communities when alleged incidents of […]

The White Flint area just might have found a new name. On Tuesday, the White Flint Partnership today announced its support for the name “Pike District” to be used for regional marketing and branding of the corridor along Rockville Pike, from North Bethesda to the Rockville city limits. “Pike District” emerged recently as the community’s […]

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr is expected to present his Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Operating Budget recommendation to the Board of Education today at about noon. Starr will hold a media briefing after the presentation at 1:30 p.m. to discuss his recommendation and answer questions. The meeting is at the Carver Educational […]

Here are the five things you need to know today, Dec. 9 in Montgomery County. 1- NTSB investigators continue to collect evidence to find out why a plane crashed into three homes in Gaithersburg killing three people onboard and three people in one of the homes it hit. 2- State’s Attorney John McCarthy has announced the […]

The National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said investigators will be on the scene for about a week collecting what he called “perishable evidence” in the plane crash in Gaithersburg that killed three people on board the jet and three others in a house it hit. Watch the press conference here. Here’s what we […]

If there is one thing politicians can rally around, it’s traffic. So when the Rockville City Council invited neighboring Gaithersburg and Montgomery County elected leaders to a discussion on the proposed Bus Rapid Transit system, it was a full house.   The group met on Wednesday night to get an update on the corridor planning study […]

The Northwest Jags are looking to repeat as state 4A champions in the title game against Old Mill at the M&T Stadium in Baltimore at 7:30 p.m. The Jags come into the game with a 11-1 record. Old Mill ended its regular season 10 and 2.   Friday Night at M&T and look who is […]

“There is more that we can do.” That was the comment made by MCPS Superintendent Joshua P. Starr in a YouTube video he made following a Montgomery County Police press conference about the sexual abuse allegations against one of the school system’s former substitute teachers. Police announced that nine other students reported abuses by the […]