Montgomery Community Media

September is International Underground Railroad Month. Originally published on Feb. 26, 2020 The Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park in Sandy Spring is home to an Underground Railroad trail. The trail is a guide for the route enslaved African Americans in Montgomery County may have taken to reach freedom. That often meant walking all the way to […]

Casey Aiken hosts the latest episode of 21 This Week. On this week’s show, Aiken and the panel discuss: County Executive Marc Elrich calls for a vaccine passport program. (1:03) Students are back in school for in-person learning and parents are criticizing the schools’ quarantine requirements. (7:36) Remembering the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the 20th […]

The Kensington Volunteer Fire Department (KVFD) will hold a remembrance ceremony Saturday morning to mark the 20 years since the Sept. 1, 2001 terrorist attacks. The ceremony will take place at the station 11 a.m. Saturday at 10620 Connecticut Ave. in Kensington. KVFD said residents can park behind the station and at 10401 Connecticut Ave. […]

Watch a video preview of the next episode of 21 This Week, below: 21 This Week airs on Montgomery Channel 21 on Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Mondays at noon and 8 p.m.; Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

World Central Kitchen (WCK), the nonprofit founded by chef, humanitarian and Bethesda resident José Andrés, has served 160,000 meals in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida, according to a post from WCK on Monday. WCK feeds people in areas suffering from natural or man-made crises. The organization has been providing meals to those affected by the hurricane […]

A discussion on the racial lynchings that took place more than a century ago in Montgomery County will be held on Sept. 14 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the pavilion in Gaithersburg’s Bohrer Park. The Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project, in partnership with the Gaithersburg Community Museum present “A Walk of Remembrance: Facing Hard […]

The management of the Rock Creek Woods Apartments in Rockville, where one young man died Sept. 1 as a result of flooding due to Hurricane Ida, spent the Labor Day weekend cleaning up and finding temporary housing for the 159 displaced residents. During the intense rains, the terrace-level apartments flooded and about 10 people were […]

El refugio de emergencia que el Condado y la Cruz Roja abrieron el miércoles en el Centro de Recreación Comunitaria del Mid-County ha cerrado. El Condado continúa trabajando con los residentes en la recuperación y las necesidades de vivienda, según el comunicado del gobierno local. Para las personas que desean apoyar a la organización comunitaria […]

Silvia Román de origen boliviano y residente de Rockville, fue una de las víctimas de las inundaciones que dejaron los remanentes del huracán Ida a su paso por el área metropolitana de Washington DC. Silvia nos cuenta cómo a la madrugada del miércoles se despertaron para darse cuenta que todo el sótano de su casa […]

En la madrugada del miércoles, el paso del huracán Ida dejó un complejo de apartamentos en Rock Creek Woods bajo el agua. 150 personas fueron desplazadas de sus hogares y Melkin Daniel Parada Cedillo de 19 años perdió la vida. Los funcionarios del condado de Montgomery están pidiendo a los residentes que hayan abandonado los […]