Montgomery Community Media

To honor the legacy and lives lost during the Holocaust, the Montgomery County Council proclaimed April 24 as Holocaust Remembrance Day in a special ceremony during the council’s meeting early Tuesday. “All residents are urged to rededicate themselves to not bear themselves silently to injustice and to always remain vigilante to the principles of a just […]

Here are some of our weekend picks from the MyMCMedia.org calendar: Friday, April 22 – Earth Day Grab your phone, take a photo and send it in for our annual Day in the Life of Montgomery County event. Come back often to see the resulting crowd-sourced photo collage. New this year, $1 will be donated to Manna Food […]

A team of Montgomery Blair High School students will soon compete on the national stage in the Academic WorldQuest (AWQ) championships in Washington, D.C. on April 23. The international competition tests students on critical global issues, international affairs and current events. Vivian Tarbert, Lalise Beyene, Vivian Bauer and Ben Hardin are members of the Blair […]

A group of volunteers from the Gaithersburg Book Festival  (GBF) will be giving out free books as part of World Book Night on April 23 at 7 p.m. at the Washingtonian Rio (in front of Uncle Julio’s). The idea is to spread the love of reading, person to person. The volunteers will also be handing out GBF […]

Here are five things to know today, April 23, in Montgomery County: 1. Montgomery County Public Schools places 11 schools on the “Best High Schools” list. 2. Several Montgomery County Council committees are meeting today, including the Public Safety Committee, which is scheduled to review the operating budget request of the Fire and Rescue Service. […]

The Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) presents Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Cory Smythe April 23 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Hahn’s two-CD set “In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores,” released at the end of last year and featuring two of the works […]

A bill that would revise the provisions of Montgomery County’s five-cent excise tax on disposable bags will be introduced before the County Council during the Council’s general session that will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23. Bill 10-13 would limit the tax to bags distributed at food stores. It also would repeal the […]

The Montgomery County Council meets on April 2 and will receive the semi-annual report of the Montgomery County Planning Board. The report will include an analysis of recent development activity in the county that shows a shift to more housing than commercial development but the Planning Board is uncertain yet whether these figures indicate a […]