Montgomery Community Media

As a football coach, Tyree Spinner was used to having a weightroom, a training room, suiting up nearly 50 guys on varsity and a turf field to call home. Now, as the new head football coach for the Avalon School in Gaithersburg, Spinner trains his team of 30 players on rented county fields, using local gyms […]

Troy Turner hasn’t stopped searching for his two children, 3-year-old Sarah and 2-year-old Jacob since they went missing last week. Monday, he met with members of the press to talk about his interactions with their mother Catherine Hoggle, who has been arrested in connection with their disappearance. Turner said he believes the children are still […]

Montgomery  County Public Schools has applied for a 45-day waiver from the state Health and Human Services Department to allow seventh-graders who have not yet complied with the new state immunizations requirements another 45 days to get the vaccinations they need. “At this point we are continuing to work with families to ensure students get the immunizations […]

Homes in Bethesda’s Edgemoor neighborhood have been evacuated as Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Hazmat services respond to a leak from a residential in-ground propane tank of more 400 gallons in the 7100 block of Fairfax Rd, according to tweets from Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer. Local neighborhood streets have been closed and […]

Montgomery County Police are gathering evidence investigating the missing Hoggle children case now as a homicide investigation. Capt. Darren Francke, director of Major Crimes Division, told members of the media Monday morning at a news conference held at the Public Safety Headquarters in Gaithersburg that his investigators are transitioning the missing persons search to a […]

Montgomery County firefighters are on the scene of an apartment fire in Aspen Hill on Whispering Pines Court, according to a tweet from Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson Pete Piringer. Piringer reported that the fire has spread to all floors and the building has been evacuated. No injuries have been reported. U/D Peppertree Farm Apts, […]

There are still nearly 1,500 seventh-graders who do not have the required proof of immunizations to be allowed to continue to go to class at Montgomery County Public Schools. Mary Anderson, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services told MyMCMedia Friday that the latest numbers show 1,491 seventh-graders still have failed to show […]

There has been another case of whooping cough in Montgomery County, this time at Gaithersburg High School. Mary Anderson, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed to MyMCMedia Friday that a student at that school has been confirmed to have pertussis, a highly-contagious respiratory illness. That makes the 16th case of the […]

Catherine Hoggle loved to spend time at the playgrounds in the Kentlands with her two kids and now her mother is asking those who live in that community to keep an eye out to see if she might return there. Lindsey Hoggle, Catherine Hoggle’s mom told MyMCMedia Friday her daughter who has been missing since earlier […]

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week, which includes reports on the Silver Spring Transit Center, taxi cab regulation, proposed ban on Styrofoam, new library hours, a recap of the Silver Spring Jazz Fest and much more. Take a look: