Montgomery Community Media

Dallas nurse Nina Pham said she was “blessed and fortunate” as she addressed the media after being discharged Ebola-free from National Institutes of Health Friday afternoon. Pham was admitted to the Special Clinical Studies Unit of the NIH Clinical Center at the request of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Oct. 16. She was the first nurse who […]

Human testing of a second investigational Ebola vaccine candidate is underway at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, according to the NIH website. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are conducting the early phase trial to evaluate the vaccine, called VSV-ZEBOV, for safety and its ability to generate […]

UPDATED, Oct. 24, 11:00 a.m. – Police have released the names of the three people who died when their helicopter collided with a Cirrus SR 22 airplane near the Frederick Municipal Airport Thursday afternoon. The three  victims are: Christopher D. Parsons, 29, of Westminster; William Jenkins, 47, of Morrison, Colo., and Breandan J. MacFawn, 35, of Cumberland. […]

They might be more comfortable with a test tube or a Petri dish but dozens of Emergent BioSolutions employees took to hammers, caulking guns and paint brushes to help build Habitat for Humanity’s newest project in Gaithersburg. The project called Maple Hill off Emory Grove Road includes 19 homes , the largest project in the […]

Gaithersburg’s Constitution Gardens, a municipal park at the intersection of Brookes and Park avenues in Olde Towne, will undergo a complete renovation in the coming months that will force officials to close it from Nov. 3 until spring. The redesigned park will celebrate the past, present and future of Gaithersburg, weaving together threads of sustainability with […]

A new court date has been set in the case of two missing Montgomery County children, even as their mother, charged in their disappearance,  insists the children are still alive. The Montgomery County District Court is scheduled to hold a hearing Nov. 6 on a request made by Catherine Hoggle’s attorney that the charges against […]

The Rockville Mayor and Council presented Rockville’s annual Good Neighbor Awards to four Rockville residents on Oct. 20. The awards honor members of the community who have made exceptional contributions to preserve and improve the quality of life in their neighborhood through good deeds or acts of service. This year’s honorees are: Nancy Keefe: Nominated […]

Montgomery County officials celebrated the re-opening of the Montgomery County Archives at its new location in Gaithersburg Wednesday. The new Montgomery County Records Center is at 8536 Anniversary Circle. The re-opening coincides with the national recognition of October as American Archives Month. The archives, which were established on July 29, 1985, serve as the institutional […]

Someone set fire to a playground in Kensington Monday night and fire officials are searching for the person responsible. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesman Pete Piringer tweeted Monday night about 11 p.m. that a playground in the 3500 block of Plyers Mills Road in Kensington was on fire. Tuesday, he said via Twitter that […]

Here is all you need to know about early voting, which starts October 23 and runs through Oct. 30.