Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED Belmont Elementary School was closed on Monday because of a 16-inch water main break in the Brookeville-Olney area. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) Spokesperson Ayoka Blandford said the break on Olney Mill Road was reported at 6:23 a.m. on Monday morning. Blandford said crews were on site and shut off the water at 7:40 […]

The Montgomery County Board of Elections (BOE) has voted to change two early voting locations and that decision has outraged some area Democrats. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, James Shalleck, the president of the Board of Elections, talks about that decision. The Montgomery County Council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee has called an Oct. […]

UPDATED The Montgomery County Board of Elections (BOE) has made a decision, by a 3-2 vote, about the locations of nine sites for early voting in Montgomery County. The BOE voted to retain seven of the previous utilized early voting sites but dropped early voting centers in Bethesda and Burtonsville and added sites in Potomac and […]

It took three hours for authorities to remove a three-foot alligator from a Koi pond in Brookeville on Friday. The alligator was reported to authorities shortly before 10 a.m. and the 9-1-1 caller seemed incredulous at what he had discovered in his backyard pond on Denit Estates Drive. You can listen to his call, here. […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a fatal motorcycle collision that occurred before noon on Friday at the intersection of Norbeck Road and Westbury Road in Rockville. Police said the preliminary investigation indicates that a 2012 silver BMW 535i was making a left turn from eastbound Norbeck Road on to Westbury Road when it collided […]

A contractor for the Maryland State Highway Administration, Skelly and Loy, Inc., recently conducted an environmental survey to assess the bat population in an area near the designated route of the Brookeville Bypass. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports that wildlife biologists were looking for the northern long-eared bat, a threatened species. These biologists also conducted an […]

Two Montgomery County men were charged with first-degree murder in the January death of a D.C. man. Montgomery County Police arrested Damien Jamaal Lee, 36, of the 3000 block of Quail Hollow Terrace in Brookeville and Delton Alex Brown, 31, of the 1100 block of West Side Drive in Gaithersburg, for the January 24 homicide […]

Some local dancers are moving on to world and national competitions after qualifying at the 2014 Southern Region Oireachtas in Orlando last month. According to a news release, 35 dancers from Scoil Rince Ni Dubhthaigh (SRND, also known as the Duffy School of Irish Dance) took part in the dance competition which featured dancers from […]

A preliminary report of the fatal crash of a helicopter and plane in Frederick Oct. 23 indicates that the pilot of the plane may not have seen the third helicopter reported in the area as he prepared to land. The National Transportation Safety Board recently released its preliminary report of the fatal crash that killed […]

Photos of County Executive Isiah Leggett courtesy Jeff Zyontz Thousands are expected to pour into the Town of Brookeville, some even on horseback, as that town celebrates the Bicentennial Commemoration of Brookeville’s role as U.S. Capital for a Day. The streets in Brookeville were busy with soldiers, townspeople in period dress and children playing sack […]