Montgomery Community Media

Like much of the country, an uptick in gun violence threatens public safety in Montgomery County. According to Montgomery County Assistant Chief Dinesh Patil, there already have been 16 confirmed homicides in the county in 2021. It may increase to 17 pending results from a  medical examiner about an incident last week. And it’s only […]

A multi-faith natural burial park, in which a body is buried in a shroud or biodegradable casket, is proposed off New Hampshire Avenue. On July 8, the Montgomery County Planning Board approved the proposal with minor conditions concerning storm water management and forest conservation. The conditions must be met before Remembrance Life Inc. receives preliminary […]

Sen. Ben Kramer and Delegates Bonnie Cullison, Charlotte Crutchfield and Vaughn Stewart joined together July 7 to file for re-election. The 19th District Democrats plan to run as a team. “It’s been the honor of our lifetimes to serve District 19 in the Maryland General Assembly,” they announced in a news release. “We hope to […]

A 2017 Wootton High School graduate is moonwalking his way onto Broadway. Myles Frost was chosen for the lead role on Broadway in MJ The Musical beginning in December. “My name is Myles Frost… AND I WILL BE MICHAEL JACKSON in @mjthemusical On BROADWAY!!!! The first thing I can think to say is thank you […]

Two Democratic candidates have filed to run against John McCarthy, who is seeking another terms as Montgomery County State’s Attorney. They are Bernice Mireku-North and Perry Paylor. Both hail from Silver Spring. Paylor has more than 25 years of experience as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. He currently is Deputy State’s Attorney in Prince […]

Four Montgomery County Public High School students earned second place in a national rocketry contest in which 615 teams entered. The students missed top honors by as small as one-tenth of a second in the rocket’s ascent or descent or less than a foot in its top altitude. “It’s hard to swallow, but we’ll take […]

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich called it “great news” that the Maryland Circuit Court issued a temporary restraining order to limit Gov. Larry Hogan’s ability to cut off enhanced federal unemployment benefits for workers who lost jobs during the pandemic. According to Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill’s ruling on July 3, the six plaintiffs in the […]

Two Montgomery County Public School students wanted to let other students know that they were not alone in dealing with the isolation and anxieties that arose during the pandemic. Rather than listen to experts on the topic, they decided to let students use their own voices to speak up and asked them to be as […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is headquartered in Gaithersburg, has launched a full technical investigation into the cause of the partial collapse of a condominium in Surfside, Florida on June 24. The investigation about the Champlain Towers South condominium could take years and is aimed at creating recommendations […]

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin is a member of the newly-formed Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Speaker Nancy Peloski announced her choices July 1 for the committee that is designed to examine and report upon the facts and causes of the attack and rioting. Besides Raskin, she also named […]