Montgomery Community Media

The streets of Takoma Park are sure to get livelier Saturday as three local musicians take to the driveway for the latest in a series of curbside concerts. Joey Jenkins, Annette Wasilik and Bill Crandall will each perform an array of original songs between 4 and 5 p.m. at the corner of Carroll and Central […]

Beginning Friday, sections of Price Avenue and Elkins Street in Downtown Wheaton will be closed for the opening of its streetery, which will offer patrons expanded outdoor seating and dining. Downtown Wheaton will become yet another section of Montgomery County to create a streetery designed for the new norm of socially distanced dining. According to […]

Montgomery County Parks will reopen athletic fields for youth sports practice on Saturday. Fields will be open Monday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Groups of ten people or less will have access to the field. Youth league managers can obtain a permit […]

COVID Corps is a new summer employment program put in place to create a pathway between service and recovery for county residents ages 16-23. Members will be working to support the county’s response to COVID-19.  This program is a part of the county’s economic development and recovery plan for youth. High unemployment rates have led to […]

Brookside Gardens is holding their online plant sale of summer annuals Saturday, June 20. Within this sale, individuals have access to pre-selected flats. All flats include 15 plants in 4” pots.  The Montgomery Parks website states, “If you don’t need 15 plants – arrange with your family or neighbors to share a flat! A flat […]

“20902 Wheaton, Covid-19 en los Hispanos” es un reportaje especial que presenta el impacto de la pandemia en la población que reside en los códigos postales del condado de Montgomery con más infecciones, y en estas zonas son donde viven la gran mayoría de hispanos y afro-americanos. El código postal 20902 tiene unos 54,000 habitantes, […]

A Confederate grave marker that was vandalized earlier this week was found toppled Thursday night, according to an official with the church. During the night of June 14, unknown assailants had spray painted over the large grave marker, which is located at the burial site of 17 Confederate soldiers on the Grace Episcopal Church grounds […]

North Potomac resident Ida Pearl Green turned 102 years young on Thursday. Green’s family and friends honored her with a drive-by parade, honking, cheering and shouting “I love you’s” to celebrate her special day.

Este jueves la Corte Suprema de Justicia de los Estados Unidos dio victoria al programa Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés). Con 5 votos a favor y 4 en contra los magistrados decidieron rechazar la demanda del gobierno del Presidente Donald Trump de terminar con dicho programa […]

More than 5,400 Montgomery County residents filed for unemployment claims during the week that ended June 13, according to data from the Maryland Department of Labor. It’s a 23 percent decrease in new claims from the week that ended June 6. Of the 5,419 new claims, a combined 2,672 stemmed from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistant […]