Montgomery Community Media

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week. This week’s show includes reports on transportation funding for Montgomery County, a town hall meeting on police and race relations, new legislation allowing food trucks in the agricultural reserve, a local planning meeting about online vacation rentals, MCPS’ givebacks campaign, the ACES program […]

The eyes of the golf world were on Montgomery County during the Quicken Loans National tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports.

Montgomery County Council member Craig Rice is reminding residents that there is a bus depot in Clarksburg that is located right next to a community of townhouses. In fact, Rice says the townhouses came after the bus depot. He made his point at a Council meeting on June 21st to discuss plans to relocate the […]

The Montgomery County Council held a meeting today about the relocation of the Shady Grove Bus Depot. In the audience were members of the Carver Coalition who oppose parking school buses at the Carver Educational Services Center. The residents were not allowed to testify at today’s meeting but they carried signs and wore yellow t-shirts […]

County Executive Ike Leggett was joined by Craig Rice and other officials to promote the use of reusable shopping bags at an event Saturday, June 18 in Silver Spring. The event included a stream clean-up of the Stewart-April Lane Tributary, remarks by officials and a free reusable bag giveaway at the White Oak Giant Foods. “I […]

In the recently approved fiscal year 2017 budget, the Montgomery County Council awarded grants to multiple community organizations that are providing resources and services to its residents. A-A LEAD (Leadership, Empowerment, and Development) is a nonprofit organization that provides low income and under served Asian American youth with a positive outlet. Find out more in this […]

Lorna Virgili hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week, which includes reports on the Pepco – Exelon merger, the 6th annual World Elder Abuse Day workshop at Holiday Park Senior Center,  graduating inmates at the Montgomery County Correctional Center, and more.

The second installment of the Josiah Henson leadership conference addresses the local legacy, history and challenges facing Montgomery County’s African-Americans and people of African ancestry. You can watch the conference, below:

The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to discuss the controversial move of buses from the Shady Grove Bus Depot to the Carver Educational Services parking lot on June 21st. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Councilmember Craig Rice talks about the issue and says “we have a real challenge ahead of us.”

Local leaders are stressing the importance of protecting the Chesapeake Bay and the waters that feed into it. Lorna Virgili has more in this report: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.