Montgomery Community Media

It’s becoming an annual back-to-school tradition – tax free shopping during the second week of August. Started eight years ago by the Maryland General Assembly, Maryland’s Tax Free Week encourages shoppers to take advantage of no sales tax on clothes and shoes up to $100.  As MyMCMedia’s Cindy Peña explains, shoppers and retailers benefit:   […]

During a recent visit to Montgomery College’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus on Aug.11 th, Sen. Barbara Mikulski discussed college affordability with students, professors and staff. Mikulski said she wanted to hear from students about college access as part of her Maryland College Affordability Tour. “That’s why I’m here today. Congress is beginning its debate on […]

There are plenty of folks who stay at their jobs for 25 years but, in this story, Susan Kenedy catches up with a gentleman who has also touched thousands of lives during the quarter century he has spent helping students cross the road safely in the city of Gaithersburg. Visit our PEG partner County Cable […]

When Montgomery County School students begin classes on August 31st, the bells will ring later in the morning – middle and high schools will start 20 minutes later and elementary schools will start 10 minutes later than in years past.  This is in response to the scientific evidence that adolescents need more sleep as well […]

Senator Barbara Mikulski is scheduled to visit the Montgomery College’s Takoma Park Silver Spring Campus on Aug. 11 at 10:15 a.m. to discuss college affordability and access with College President DeRionne Pollard. The visit comes after Mikulski’s announcement- along with Senator Ben Cardin- that the U.S. Department of Education awarded $4,2 million in grants to 15 institutes […]

Some county students are doing amazing things with pasta. You probably think they are cooking – you’d be wrong. Let’s go to the Johns Hopkins University campus in Rockville to take a look at an interesting feat of engineering. MCPS TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its […]

They worked on math, reading, swimming and played games. And now that summer is almost over, they are getting ready to go back to school. More than 100 children from low-income families participated at a Lunch and Learn Program over the summer sponsored by Making a New United People (MANUP), Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington (ACSGW), and […]

School is out and kids are reading. That’s right some Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students and other area kids are showing us that education never takes a break, not even in the summer. MCPS-TV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

Hundreds of residents are left out of the conversation when they can’t understand because of language barriers. However, Montgomery College is trying to address this issue by training bilingual interpreters. “Interpreters are needed in different areas of the community from school system to the police department to firefighters; MVA. So the idea is to have […]

Montgomery College’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus has been awarded Green Seal certification for cleaning services, becoming the first community college in the country to ever earn certification under the GS-42 standard for Commercial and Institutional Cleaning Services. Green Seal is the nation’s premier environmental organization and the original “Green Seal of Approval.” “We are so […]