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Montgomery Community Media has unveiled a new 40-second video to promote a Power to Give crowdfunding project to raise funds to buy GoPro Hero cameras for the television station’s training classes and programs. So, what is a GoPro Hero? It’s described as a small, wearable, mountable, portable, high performance and versatile camera that makes it […]

This Saturday, the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Championship took place in Kennesaw, Georgia. A week earlier the Rochester Rattlers beat the Ohio Machine and the Denver Outlaws squeaked by the New York Lizards with a late game goal. This set up a Rattlers vs. Outlaws Championship Game. Rochester and Denver were the two top seeds […]

They were like any teen-aged girls in high school.  Some loved athletics, others focused on their studies…and boys were the common denominator! That was 1941.  Yet a bond between a group of twelve girls from McKinley Technical High School in Washington, DC created a lifetime of friendship that endures, seventy-three years later. Formally, they started  […]

Montgomery Community Media’s video journalism camp at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair provided local youth with a reporting assignment to cover the fair. Their final project included a look at the animals, exhibits, food, rides and more on location at the county fair. Take a look:

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band headlines the Silver Spring Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 3-10 p.m. in downtown Silver Spring. Each year, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival has presented a mix of many jazz genres, including straight ahead, smooth, Latin, and other popular jazz forms. This year the festival enjoys original eclectic […]

For three years, I have been honored to cover the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce’s Public Safety awards ceremony. This is an annual event that takes place, traditionally, on the first day of the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair at the Heritage building and it’s designed for the local business community to thank our county’s first responders […]

Our summer vacation is over, and the new school year is quickly approaching. Our daughter has left for her senior year at Cornell, and our son will leave before we know it for his sophomore year at DePaul. Soon we will be Empty-Nesters again. But what am I saying? We were practically Empty-Nesters all summer. […]

A media consultant and public relations executive, Steve Simon headlines the upcoming Small Business University event at the television studios of Montgomery Community Media on August 21. Simon’s address will focus on the role of public relations when it comes to building a business’s brand. “The talk will focus on how any organization – large […]

Brookeville is a town located twenty miles (32 km) north of Washington, D.C. and two miles (3 km) north of Olney in northeastern Montgomery County, Maryland. Brookeville was settled by Quakers late in the 18th century, and was formally incorporated as a town in 1808. The town served the local agricultural industry, with a toll […]

  In 1814 James Madison was President of the U.S. On August 26 of that year, and during the war, President Madison  left Washington DC and went to Brookeville MD and held up there  for a day. Since then Brookeville has been  known as the U.S. Capital for a day. There is a sign, as […]