Montgomery Community Media

Balls bounce. Sometimes toward your favor other times they are just out of reach. And so it went for the Churchill boys’ lacrosse team – balls bounced away. Howard Lions boys’ lacrosse team remained undefeated (20-0) in this their championship year thus denying the Churchill Bulldogs a chance to claim their part of MPSSAA lax […]

When outdoor bocce courts opened at Riderwood in 2013, resident George Galasso dreamed of days like May 8. The Riderwood Bocce Club hosted eight students from Springbrook High School’s Special Education Program for an afternoon of intergenerational outreach and friendly competition at the Erickson Living retirement community. Springbrook is part of Montgomery County Public Schools. […]

I spent a good portion of the weekend covering the Gaithersburg Book Festival (GBF) and it’s an assignment I enjoy because of the extraordinary people I get to meet at this popular literary event. At the authors’ reception on Friday night at Asbury Methodist Village, I met the author and illustrator of a popular children’s […]

The Girls on the Run non-profit organization (GOTR) for Montgomery County had their 16th 5k race on Sunday May 17 at Montgomery Mall in Bethesda. The Girls on the Run is nationwide but this run was for Montgomery County residents. GOTR  uses running to help girls from third through eighth grade gain self esteem and team work skills. They train for two […]

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. To commemorate this time, we honor the Asians Americans who made strides for many communities across the nation. Among them is Belkis Leong-Hong, the Democratic National Committee’s AAPI Caucus Chair. While serving in this leadership role since 2005, she has successfully created 11 Asian American state level […]

Gaithersburg’s baseball team came ready to play on Wednesday evening and smoked the Quince Orchard Cougars 8 to 1 to advance to the 4A West MPSSAA playoff. Trey Martinez and Nick Pantos, the Trojan’s, respective catcher and pitcher/second-baseman, sparked this explosive team with home runs. Brendan Deyo pitched through five and one-third innings holding the […]

Nearly 20 years ago on a snowy February Friday night, I was leaving my office as a Montgomery County, Md. public information officer, when the phone rang and a TV reporter who I often dealt with called and asked what we knew so far about this “train collision” in Silver Spring. I thought he was […]

Do you like to go out and shoot videos of your family, vacations, events etc? If you do knowing how to edit them is something you should do. A video shot and just shown is usually not the most appealing to watch.   But with a little knowledge, and some tools, along with a slightly […]

Riderwood retirement community in Silver Spring appointed Jeff Kimbell as Director of Dining Services. Kimbell brings more than twenty-five years of experience in the hospitality industry to this leadership position, fourteen of which are with Erickson Living, the manager and developer of Riderwood. He has served the past nine years as a regional Director of […]

Montgomery County Delta Alumnae Foundation, Inc. recently awarded a grant to Montgomery Community Media for the television station’s “Send a Kid to Camp and Give a Kid a Chance” program. The award was presented at the foundation’s annual meeting at the Silver Spring Civic Center. Below are some photos from the meeting: