Montgomery Community Media

It was football crazy in Olney on Friday night. Route 108 was filled with cross-town fans riding between Georgia and New Hampshire Ave and all short cuts in between. Fan destinations were Sherwood and Good Counsel High Schools. In the end the game outcomes were split for the hometown teams. Sherwood lost to Quince Orchard […]

It’s Friday Night and the Light is on Olney, MD. It’s the place to be for high school football in Montgomery County. If you haven’t left home for Olney yet – your behind the traffic curve on Route 108. So we have two of the biggest games in MoCo set up to be played less […]

How about some fun with Friday Night Lights – High School Football styled? Why not add a specter of gamesmanship to it – let’s pit the best against one another. Are you game? Well then here it is – it’s called the Mythical Match-Up Challenge. It’s only here on Montgomery Community Media. What is it? […]

FAT LADY’s Sad Song & Armstrong’s Legacy Await! Lance Armstrong said it. Basta! “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say ‘enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now,” he said on Thursday, August 23, 2012 as he gave up his battle with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). For […]

The big news this past weekend was not the Dream Team redux in London winning the Gold medal in Men’s Basketball for the US – it was the announcement of Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Mitt Romney’s chosen running mate on the Republican Presidential candidate ticket. Many across the country are just now beginning to […]

The NCAA football sanctions are a game changer at Penn State. The athletic curtain has been pulled back and we now know the length and breadth of how institutionalized future fall football weekends in the valley shall become. NCAA President Mark Emmert announced on Monday that Penn State agreed to sanctions for its iconic football […]

Excerpt from The Bear Lackett Chronicles – Part 3 in the Series It has been a few weeks since Joanne sent me the photo slideshow used at Bear’s viewing in Wall NJ. I loaded up the photos in Aperture on my Mac and paged through the 50 static views. No sound, no commentary and no […]

Barry’s Music Shop, in Rockville MD closed on Saturday July 14. I was there on a photo assignment on Friday afternoon and came upon Barry playing his guitar. He and a good friend were harmonizing on Elvis tunes. I grabbed my camera then my iPhone and located Never Been to Spain from Elvis: Live in […]

Bryce Harper, the 19 year-old outfielder for the Washington Nationals made it to Baseball’s Midsummer Classic. Is it hard to believe? Not really. If you have watched any games at all this season either on cable or at Nats stadium you see how he impacts the entire game, how he plays to win. Opposing team […]

NYAJ are the call letters for a good-time eating establishment. This New England based restaurant chain just opened in the Kentlands, Gaithersburg. So far my straw poll and taste buds indicates that we have a winner here in MoCo with Joes’. NYJA has 17 locations; all but 2 are in Massachusetts with one in Leesburg, […]