Montgomery Community Media

MCM’s field producer Carolyn Raskauskas spoke with FOX5 chief meteorologist and Montgomery County resident Sue Palka Wednesday, Sept. 12 as Hurricane Florence headed for the Atlantic coast. State and county officials kept an eye on what Hurricane Florence might mean Maryland and Montgomery County. As Palka explains, its a tricky business predicting hurricanes and typically […]

Changes to 19 Ride On bus routes will start on Sunday, September 16. New service will be added to Routes 43 (new Sunday service), 76 (new Saturday service) and 90 (new midday service). The changes are listed below: Route 90 – New midday service on weekdays to Milestone and new service to the Clarksburg community […]

Don Mooers hosts the latest episode of Montgomery Week in Review. Guests include Linna Barnes, Shirley Brandman, Dr Bruce Fowler, and Henry Hailstock. Mooers and the panel discuss the reasons fewer women were on the primary ballot in the County with Linna Barnes, the importance of educating the whole child with Shirley Brandman, concern for lead leaching […]

More than 55 students across the state of Maryland will be awarded at least $2,000 in scholarships during the annual Maryland Hispanic Gala. The event, which will take place at the Fillmore in Silver Spring tonight, brings together community organizations that are committed to helping youth achieve a high level of education. Now in its sixth […]

Montgomery County and more than 60 cities and counties across the country in the bipartisan “Cities for Citizenship” effort to encourage eligible immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship. The program comes at a time when a backlog in processing applications may be discouraging permanent residents from applying for citizenship. There will be two workshops held […]

His name was “Mike,” he lived in Gaithersburg, and he had a lot of gold to sell. But two men found out that maybe his name was Mike and maybe he lived in Gaithersburg, but he wasn’t selling gold — he was selling copper, and the victims were out of $300,000, according to Montgomery County […]

Team members from Maryland Task Force 1 Urban Search Rescue Team arrived in Columbia, South Carolina to help with Hurricane Florence relief efforts. The team is comprised of 80 members, including those with heavy concrete structure collapse, wide-area search, and swift-water rescue capabilities, according to a news release “I am very proud that Montgomery County […]

Hurricane Florence won’t be much of a hurricane when it grazes Montgomery County later this week. Maryland is expected to get scattered showers through the weekend from the storm, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeremy Geiger said Wednesday. Given the shift that #HurricaneFlorence has made to South, the risks to MD and Montgomery County are diminished. […]

Montgomery County police are asking the public’s help in identifying the men in surveillance photos that captured thefts from two cars in early August in Brookeville. The first case occurred about 4 a.m. Aug. 1 in the driveway of a home in the 21300 block of Ridgecroft Drive. A man driving a white pick-up stole […]

Isiah Leggett: How Far He’s Come Isiah “Ike” Leggett is the first African American to serve as County Executive in Montgomery County. He announced late in 2016 that he would not seek re-election. With his third term drawing to an end, MyMCMedia’s Doug Tallman recently interviewed Leggett about his life and career. Leggett speaks with MCM’s […]