Montgomery Community Media

COVID-19 vaccinations for 5-11 year olds started Thursday in Montgomery County. On Friday, young residents waited to get their first dose at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring. “I feel happy to get my vaccine,” 5-year-old Lillian Obletz of Silver Spring said. “Now I can play with more friends.” “We were really excited […]

All Montgomery County Police Department officers are wearing a solid black mourning band over their police badges in honor of fellow officer Lt. Daniel Friz who died this week. Friz died in a collision with a 2018 Freightliner on I-70 in Lisbon just after midnight on Nov. 1. Fellow officers held a high level of […]

Washington DC sports icons Walter Johnson and Shirley Povich will be memorialized with a sculpture on Saturday, Nov. 6 at Povich Field, home of the Bethesda Big Train baseball league, in Bethesda. The life-sized bronze sculpture, called “Shirley & Walter,” depicts legendary Washington Post sports columnist Shirley Povich interviewing Washington Senators’ Hall of Fame pitcher […]

Two suspects are still at large after an armed robbery Saturday at a Walgreens pharmacy along the 6900 block of Arlington Road in Bethesda. The Montgomery County Police Department Major Crimes Division released a statement November 3 detailing the crime as per its ongoing investigation. Officers from the 2nd District responded to the call at approximately […]

Montgomery County is likely to avoid reinstating an indoor mask mandate for now, as county data showed the jurisdiction re-entered moderate COVID-19 transmission Thursday. County Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Dr. Earl Stoddard confirmed on Twitter that the county will avoid triggering the mandate assuming the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updates its numbers […]

Montgomery County Police Department’s Major Crimes Division arrested and charged a Rockville man for a fatal stabbing on Nov. 3. Police identified the man as Jonathan Mohelski, 36. According to an MCPD statement, on Nov. 3, Mohelski told 911 he discovered his friend dead in a bathroom inside the home on the 13300 block of […]

A “serious incident” occurred in a Wootton High School locker room involving Varsity football players on Tuesday, Principal Kimberly Boldon said in a letter to families. A staff member reported the incident and Montgomery County Police (MCPD) were immediately called, Boldon wrote. Police were called around 4:04 p.m. for “an assault that was believed to […]

A Powerball player – who has yet to claim the prize – purchased the winning lottery ticket worth $200,000 in Rockville last week, according to a press release by Maryland Lottery. The winning numbers came up on the Oct. 27 drawing, but as of today, the prize remains unclaimed. And the winning numbers? They were […]

After the CDC announced its final approval granting emergency authorization of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Marylanders can start making appointments for children. Hogan said during a press conference Wednesday that the state has placed an initial order of 180,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine from […]

Philanthropist Kimmy Duong has donated $1 million to Montgomery College to fund scholarships for minority students. To show its appreciation to Duong and her husband Dr. Long Nguyen, the college renamed its new student services center at the Rockville campus, the Kimmy Duong and Long Nguyen Student Services Center, on Oct. 28. “Without support of […]