Montgomery Community Media

Fields Road Elementary School was featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. That’s because the Gaithersburg-based school recently raised over $13,000 during a record-breaking Read-A-Thon, and the fundraiser caught the attention of Fallon because of its “Egg Roulette” video starring the school’s principals. On Friday night’s show, Fallon played a clip […]

Passengers on Montgomery County’s Ride On bus system donated 6,258 pounds of food this year during the annual “Give and Ride” food drive that took place during the week of April 24. You may remember that bus passengers received free rides by donating canned or nonperishable food for Montgomery County school students. “Every year, Ride […]

Santa traded in his sleigh for a new kind of ride on Dec. 16. That’s right, on this day Santa was traveling aboard a Harley to communities across Montgomery County – from Germantown to Bethesda- and he was not alone. With lights and sirens flashing, a police escort accompanied Santa as he collected gifts and donations […]

Here are your five things to know today, Dec. 1st, in Montgomery County: 1. The Montgomery County Council meets today and Councilmembers are expected to elect new officers for a one-year term. The meeting will be broadcast live by County Cable Montgomery. The Council agenda is posted online. 2. Have you heard? Montgomery County’s new towing […]

This week is a popular one for making final donations by year-end to charitable organizations. Here are some tips from the county Office of Consumer Protection so that you choose wisely. • Verify a charity’s non-profit status • Review how money is spent by the charity. How much money is used for administrative costs? • […]

A fundraiser at a local restaurant raised about $2,000 for the Gemmell family. Dogfish Head Alehouse of Gaithersburg hosted a fundraiser Dec. 22 donating 20 percent of the proceeds to the Gemmell family. Marie Gemmell and her two young sons died on Dec. 8 when a jet crashed into their Gaithersburg home. Jenifer Miller, a […]

Savi Technology established the Arabelle Gemmell Fund, a campaign designed to create a college fund for Arabelle Gemmell, daughter of Savi employee Ken Gemmell. Arabelle’s mother and two young brothers, Devin and Cole, were killed when a small plane hit their home near Gaithersburg on Dec. 8, 2014. Ken Gemmell was at work at the […]

This month when customers buy art supplies at any of the three Plaza Artist Materials stores in Montgomery County they will have the option of rounding up their bill and donating the money to support local artists. The effort is called Round Up for the Visual Arts! and it is launched in conjunction with the […]

There is now more parkland in the city of Gaithersburg. That’s because MedImmune has conveyed a 6.5 acre parcel of land, known as the Meadows and located along Orchard Ridge Drive and adjacent to the Quince Orchard Park community, for use as parkland. In addition, city officials said MedImmune has contributed $200,000 towards park improvements. […]

Students and staff at Earle B. Wood Middle School gathered at a special event on Dec. 20 to celebrate a donation of books from Gallaudet University, one of the nation’s premier post-secondary programs for the hearing impaired. The school’s media center received a total of 25 books on deaf education and the culture of deafness. […]