Montgomery Community Media

All Montgomery County councilmembers support a bill that offers grants to small local businesses to help cover childcare contribution costs. The bill was introduced Wednesday. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees would be eligible to receive grants of up to 50% of the yearly amount paid to employees who earn less than $125,000. Businesses often […]

El Departamento de Recreación del Condado de Montgomery (MCR) busca cubrir puestos de tiempo completo y parcial durante todo el año. Hay vacantes disponibles en muchas áreas, incluidas las actividades acuáticas, los servicios administrativos y comerciales, las instalaciones de recreación comunitaria, los servicios para personas mayores, el desarrollo de la juventud, los deportes, la recreación […]

El Vicepresidente del Concejo del Condado de Montgomery Gabe Albornoz y la Concejal Nancy Navarro presentaron el Proyecto de Ley 38-21, Fondo de Desarrollo Económico – Programa de Subvenciones para el Cuidado Infantil de Empresas Locales, que proporcionará un incentivo para ayudar a las pequeñas empresas del Condado de Montgomery a atraer talento y al […]

The Montgomery County Recreation Department (MCR) looks to fill full and part-time year-round positions. Openings are available in many areas, including aquatics, administrative and business services, community recreation facilities, senior services, youth development, sports, therapeutic recreation and more. “I started my highly satisfying career path with MCR as a seasonal staff,” said MCR Director Robin […]

A recent graduate of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring won a $25,000 national scholarship and was named a 2021 Davidson Fellow Scholarship winner. Timothy Qian, 18, of Rockville, was one of only 20 students to receive this honor. His project is entitled Optimal Measurement of Field Properties with Quantum Sensor Networks. He theorized […]

Montgomery County Council Vice President Gabe Albornoz spoke about recent fighting during a Northwest at Seneca Valley high school football game and “other reported incidents of violence in our public schools” during a press briefing Monday. Albornoz stressed that the safety and security of everyone who attends or works at Montgomery County Public Schools “is […]

There are plenty of places in or near Montgomery County to have some spooky Halloween fun. Here’s a list of some haunted forests and houses, live theatre and movies for the scariest time of the year. Haunted Forests and Houses Field of Screams Maryland Features a hike through the Super Trail and a visit to […]

Students at Walter Johnson High School staged a walk-out Friday morning to protest graffiti with white supremacist symbols and hate speech that was found on school property early last week. The demonstration started as an outdoor assembly organized by the school. Students who attended the event said they disagreed with the graffiti at their school […]

The Gaithersburg Book Festival is seeking entries for the annual poetry contest which is open to all high school students in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. The contest will recognize four poets for first through third place and a fan favorite poem at the Gaithersburg Book Festival […]

Un estudiante de 17 años de la escuela secundaria Walt Whitman fue detenido el miércoles después de agredir a una estudiante en la escuela secundaria Churchill en Potomac, y empuñar un cuchillo a otros que intentaron intervenir, según la policía del condado de Montgomery (MCPD). La directora de información pública de la policía, Shiera Goff, […]