Montgomery Community Media

With the new school year only a few weeks away, many parents think about ways to improve how they handle things with their teens. One aspect that often comes up is how to setup an allowance and/or teach teens to manage money effectively. While there are lots of different views on this, here are a […]

Riderwood, the Erickson Living retirement community, announced the appointment of Nicole Walker, SPHR, CHHR as the Director of Human Resources. Ms. Walker has served as an administrator in Human Resources with Erickson Living, the manager and developer of Riderwood, for fifteen years.  Previously, she has worked at sister communities in Northern Virginia (Ashby Ponds and […]

The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce honored Upcounty Police Officers, Firefighters and Paramedics at their 19th Annual Public Safety Awards Breakfast. The event was held on Friday, August 8 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg. This year we honored 57 of the County’s, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fire Department & the City of […]

In these days of criticizing our civil servants, we forget when they do something really terrific. Imagine, for a moment, the gargantuan size of our U.S. Government. Consider all the departments, agencies, divisions, sections and subsections – each trying to fulfill their own mission and all looking to buy just about every product and service […]

Montgomery Community Media’s Video Journalism Camp begins this week, on location at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, and what an assignment it is for the teens who are participating in this multimedia experience. This is the second year that MCM’s has offered the camp, and Instructor Mandi Wyndham said it sold out quickly. In fact, there […]

Sports intrigue most Americans, in fact 90 percent of Americans watch some type of sporting events. 60 percent of boys and 47 percent of girls already play organized sports by the time they are six years old! What I am going to look at today is what sports are on the rise and what sports are […]

As I sit and watch the Redskins/Patriots pre-season game I already know he has what it takes. He is Travis Hawkins, #42, and a rookie on the New England Patriots – a MoCo local. I first put my lens on Travis about 2005 when he played for Coach Dave Mencarini at Quince Orchard. The hey-days […]

Every four years the Federation of International Lacrosse has a tournament that gathers many nations together to compete for a gold medal.  The teams split up into different divisions where they compete in round robin play.  The elite division (Blue Division) is highlighted by Team USA, Team Canada, Team Australia and Team Iroquois. Team USA […]

Last year, the University of Oregon Ducks fell short in their journey to becoming National Champions. The Ducks fell to Stanford in a heartbreaking loss and then they were dominated by Arizona down in Tuscon. Though the Ducks came up short last year, they still can make this season one to remember. Last year was […]

Vincent Sarageno was hired earlier this summer as Montgomery Community Media’s senior production technician and production operations coordinator. He began his new job at MCM just before the primary election in late June.  Before arriving at MCM, Sarageno worked in a variety of positions at other local and national television outlets. “I have done just […]