Montgomery Community Media

Thousands of Montgomery County residents were left in the dark last night as severe thunderstorms moved across Montgomery County downing trees and power lines Tuesday evening. According to Pepco online outage maps, at the height of the storm over 12,000 customers in Montgomery County were without power.  On Wednesday morning, 89 Pepco customers in Montgomery […]

UPDATED, Oct. 29, 7:50 a.m. – The wheel of a CSX locomotive is on fire, but firefighters are reporting that that fire is under control. There are no injuries reported in this incident. U/D CSX Train located Btwn Mouth of Monocracy Rd & Mt Ephraim Rd, Dickerson area, wheel on locomotive on fire, fire under […]

Markoff’s Haunted Forest is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings now through Nov. 1. Visitors may choose from two scary trails, zip-lines, zombie hunts and more if they dare. Take a look: Markoff’s Haunted Forest is located at 19120 Martinsburg Rd in Dickerson. A portion of the proceeds are donated to the following organizations: Girls […]

By Sierra Leone standards Bobby Smith should already be dead. At 49 he’s lived two years past the life expectancy for a man in his home country. And with the Ebola outbreak hitting that country, had he still lived there the chances of making it to 50s would be even slimmer. Smith, a surgical tech who now […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police officers are investigating a fatal car accident on Darnestown Road near Martinsburg Road. At approximately 4:05 a.m., on April 17, officers responded to the 20200 block of Darnestown Road for the report of car collision from a driver passing through the area. A preliminary investigation revealed that a 2002 Pontiac Sunfire […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner, who chairs the Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee, made the following statement after learning that NRG Energy in 2017 will close its coal-fired generating plant in Dickerson in northern Montgomery County: “I have been advised by NRG officials, owners of the Dickerson coal plant in Montgomery County, that […]

Two Montgomery County firefighters were injured battling a house fire in Dickerson during the early morning hours. At 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, Montgomery County firefighters responded to the report of a house fire at the 19700 block of Mouth of Monocacy Road. Firefighters arrived on the scene and encountered a well established fire […]

The operators of the historic White’s Ferry were preparing for flooding on Oct. 29 as the store manager and employees were packing up and moving out as they expect the Potomac River to rise over its banks this week. You can see from these photos that three historic floods have made their watermark on the […]