Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Councilmember Sidney Katz is hosting a series of online briefings about business and economic development in the county during the COVID-19 pandemic. The next briefing takes place Friday, May 21 at 12:30 p.m. Katz will be joined by Jillian Copeland, owner of Soulfull Café, Main Street in Rockville and new co-owner of Bethesda […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Sidney Katz is hosting a series of online briefings about business and economic development in the county during the COVID-19 pandemic. The next briefing takes place Friday, April 9 at 12:30 p.m. Anthony Featherstone, executive director of Worksource Montgomery, Inc. (WSM), and Brad Stewart, senior vice-president of business development for Montgomery County […]

Football in full gear is back. Friday afternoon, members of the Montgomery County Council unanimously approved guidelines that let the already-shortened three-season high school season go on, although it is considered a “high-risk” sport. Players must wear masks, participate in contact tracing and observe social distancing as much as possible. But according to two football […]

In 2019, Montgomery County Police confiscated six ghost guns. Last year, the department recovered 73 of these guns that have no serial numbers, come in kits and are made of plastic so they can’t easily be found by metal detectors. “This trend is truly heading up,” said Chief Marcus Jones during a news conference Jan. […]

On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Council unanimously passed a special appropriation of $3 million in funding to assist primary medical care and dental providers that are struggling financially, according to a press release. The current global pandemic has created significant financial issues for many of the area’s independently owned medical and dental providers. Montgomery County’s […]

Unemployment claims throughout Maryland rose this week as did the number of people calling to see if they were eligible to file a claim. Maryland Department of Labor’s Division of Unemployment Insurance “has received a substantial surge in the number of Marylanders contacting our department about their eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits during COVID-19,” […]