Montgomery Community Media

One local high school student was honored in a special ceremony marking his accomplishments in a national contest aimed at encouraging teens to stay away from drugs and alcohol. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk has the story of Springbrook High School senior Santiago Romero and his award winning slogan. Santiago Romero was was given a challenge by […]

Organizers at the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy hit the dictionary to prepare for their first annual Grown-Up Spelling Bee for Adult Literacy. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk has the story of how the event held  at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center in Silver Spring, brought the community together to focus on literacy issues in the County. […]

Montgomery County leaders met with members of the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless and volunteers with the 100,000 Homes campaign to acknowledge the County’s progress in finding permanent housing for medically vulnerable homeless living on County streets. “The County Council is not going to drop this issue,” said Councilmember George Leventhal during the press […]

Organizers at the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy (MCAEL) are hitting the dictionary to prepare for their first annual “Grown-Up Spelling Bee for Adult Literacy.” The event, which will be held April 9 at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center in Silver Spring, is designed to bring the community together to focus on literacy issues in […]

Students at Montgomery College took turns stepping up to the mic April 8 to tell the stories of victims of the Nazi persecution during the school’s annual Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony at the Rockville Campus. The Commemoration paid tribute to the millions who died as well as to Holocaust survivors both near and far. “I’m very […]

The Montgomery County Commission for Women brought local experts together on April 8 for a discussion on the challenges facing Muslim Women in the area and the stereotypes many women deal with in a post 9/11 world. “Misperceptions and preconceptions can create obstacles to full integration into American society and to living in harmony with […]

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett joined host Lorna Virgili for the 100th episode of radio show “Montgomery al Dia” on Radio America on April 8 to talk about the show’s impact as an ongoing tool to inform the County’s fast growing Hispanic community.   “Montgomery al Dia” was launched on April 3, 2012, by the […]

Thousands of local Persian-Americans celebrated the arrival of spring in Boyds during the IrAmerican Civic Society’s biggest annual event of the year. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk has the story of how this time of the year is significant to the Persian-American community. Mina Rezvani immigrated to the United States from Iran, but she didn’t leave the […]

Spring is in the air, and local Iranian Americans are enjoying their biggest event of the year. The IrAmerican Civic Society’s 21st annual Persian American Festival on April 6 in Boyds, Md., is expected to attract more than 4,000 people. The event is held in honor of Sizdeh Bedar, the Persian festival of Spring, and will […]

County Councilmember Nancy Navarro was a guest for the debut of “Sintonía con el Concejo del Condado de Montgomery” (Tuned In with the Montgomery County Council), a new show on Radio America. In this MyMCMedia Extra, Navarro talks about the importance of the radio show in communicating County Council business to the community. The Montgomery […]