Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Historical Society has offered to manage the digital archives of the now-defunct Gazette newspapers. Matt Logan, executive director of the Montgomery County Historical Society, said he has called officials at The Gazette to offer the society as a landing spot for the digital documents of the newspaper that published its last edition June 17. […]

Cari Shane, principal with /’sas∙s’ē/ Agency is the keynote speaker at Thursday’s Small Business University event at Montgomery Community Media. Shane’s topic of discussion is “Social Media is Not a Marketing Strategy.” Watch Shane’s presentation streamed live, below: A former print, radio and television reporter, public relations executive Cari Shane is a crafter of media pitches. […]

A national program to help combat veterans and active military through flyfishing and yoga reeled in a $20,000 grant today from a local bioscience company. Emergent BioSolutions with headquarters in Gaithersburg today donated $20,000 to the Rivers of Recovery organization. Rivers of Recovery specializes in the rehabilitation of combat veterans suffering with Post Traumatic Stress (PTS), […]

As The Gazette hits driveways and front stoops for the last time today, questions turn to how to preserve what has already been published. Rockville Councilmember Tom Moore told MyMCMedia he has reached out to The Washington Post to find out plans to archive the issues, but he said he has not gotten a response. […]

The loss of the Gazette newspaper means a little more money for another community newspaper. A city of Gaithersburg spokesperson says legal ads scheduled to run this week in the Gazette newspaper will be running in the Sentinel newspaper instead. “We are conducting a cost analysis of the various publications that meet State requirements for […]

At the June 16th Montgomery County Council meeting, Councilmembers confirmed Michael Smith as development ombudsman. Smith was nominated for the new post by County Executive Isiah Leggett. ORIGINAL POST In this MyMCMedia extra video, County Executive Isiah Legget nominates real estate executive Michael Smith for the new post of Development Ombudsman. The selection of an […]

At the Paris Air Show, Maryland Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford joined Paul Ausley, president of Ausley Associates Inc., and Gavin Brown, executive director of the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA), to announce that MAMA has selected Ausley as a partner in its Humanitarian Emergency Logistics Program (HELP), which provides routine and emergency medical care to […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal shares his reaction about the news that the Gazette newspaper is closing. Shutting down The Gazette is a gigantic abandonment by The Washington Post Company of its responsibilities to the… Posted by George Leventhal on Friday, June 12, 2015

The Washington Post Community Media is shutting down the Montgomery County Gazette and the community and staff of the newspaper took to social media to give their thoughts. Gazette staff told that next week’s editions are our last. Lot of great people lost their jobs today. pic.twitter.com/AnIZnMcMzR — Ken Sain (@GazSptsEd) June 12, 2015 Thank […]

UPDATED, June 12, 12:09 p.m. – The Washington Post Community Media is shutting down the Montgomery County Gazette effective Aug. 11, according to the Washington Post. A letter from Donna Johnson, Post Community Media vice president, states the 69 affected employees are not represented by any labor organization. The Gazette offices are at 9030 Comprint […]