Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Council unanimously voted to restrict the possession, use, sale and transfer of undetectable guns to minors Tuesday afternoon. The legislation is designed to stop what are known as ghost guns, whose parts easily can be purchased on the Internet, according to Police Chief Marcus Jones. They are basically do it yourself guns. The […]

Montgomery County Council President Tom Hucker Tuesday proposed doubling the county’s excise tax rate on the wholesale price of electronic cigarette products from the current 30% to 60%. A public hearing on the increase will be held April 27 at 1:30 p.m. If approved, the higher rate would go into effect on July 1. Hucker […]

A 38-year-old U. S. Navy Hospital Corpsman entered a business in the Riverside Tech Park in the City of Frederick around 8:20 Tuesday morning and began shooting. The shooter then got into a car and drove to the nearby U.S. Fort Detrick, where he was shot by personnel on base. When Frederick police arrived at […]

Frederick Police are reporting that there was a shooting at Progress Drive and Opposumtown Pike in the Northwest part of the city, about four miles from U. S. Army’s Fort Detrick. There are two victims, whose conditions have not been revealed at this time. The suspect is down, police report. This story will be updated as […]

Due to a flood at the National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, information concerning precipitation frequency and intensity has been more difficult to obtain. A ruptured water pipe at one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) campus buildings in downtown Silver Spring on March 9 caused so much damage that the server […]

Takoma Park Police Department will collect expired and unused prescription medicine as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on April 24. Drugs can be dropped off at the police department, located at 7500 Maple Avenue, in the first floor lobby. It will be open 24 hours a day, seven days […]

103-Year-Old Nina Clarke, Teacher in County’s Segregated and Integrated Schools, Remembered as ‘A Phenomenal Woman’ Nina Honemond Clarke, the granddaughter of enslaved families and a Montgomery County teacher in both segregated and integrated schools, died March 4 at the age of 103. “She was a phenomenal woman,” said Rev. Jane Wood, who knew Clarke all […]

During a three-hour drive-in memorial service Saturday afternoon, Tommy Raskin, who died of suicide at the age of 25, was remembered by family, friends and thousands of others gathered at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. or watching virtually on You Tube. The celebration of his life featured memories from long-time friends, teachers, his sisters and […]

Construction is expected to begin soon at the Gene Lynch Urban Park at the intersection of Colesville Road and Wayne Avenue across from the Silver Spring Transit Center and the future Purple Line stop, according to the Silver Spring Regional Center. The 11,6000-square-foot park is named for Eugene Lynch III, who held many public service […]

During the hour-long virtual discussion on whether to change the name of the White Flint Metro Station, the approximately 60 people in attendance went from expressing a fairly even split to reaching a consensus to change the station’s name to something that included the two words – North Bethesda, according to Friends of White Flint […]