Montgomery Community Media

Who will be the next mayor of Gaithersburg? We should know next month. Long-serving Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz announced at last night’s City Council meeting that he is submitting his conditional resignation effective Nov. 10. Katz noted that he is running unopposed for the District 3 Montgomery County Council seat in the Nov. 4 election. […]

Rockville’s next Mayor and Council can expect to serve longer terms after city leaders voted 3-2 to lengthen terms from two to four years this week. Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton and Councilmembers Beryl L. Feinberg and Virginia D. Onley voted for the change, while Councilmembers Tom Moore and Julie Palakovich Carr opposed it. The resolution […]

Drivers can see clearly now the signs are gone. It was time to go for more than 2,500 signs that were placed illegally along Montgomery County roads as three County departments came together for the first time and hit the road for a day-long crackdown on signs that could be distracting for drivers. See more […]

When Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz leaves the post he’s held for 16 years to take his seat on the Montgomery County Council he won’t need a moving truck to pack up his things. After 16 years as mayor and 20 years on the city council, Katz said he has just one photograph given to him […]

Montgomery County Council incumbents are likely to get out of the primary unscathed, but there is still uncertainty in the open District 5 race where it will come down to absentee ballots for Evan Glass and Tom Hucker. Just 217 votes separate Silver Spring community activist Glass and Maryland Delegate Hucker, according to the unofficial […]

Unofficial election results have Ike Leggett winning back his seat as Montgomery County Executive, but many other races are still too close to call. In the Delegate 17 race: This is a close one:House of Delegates District 17- Barve, (2,271); Gilchrist, (1,748); Hoffmann, (1,699); Platt, (1,778) — MyMCMedia (@mymcmedia) June 25, 2014 In the race […]

UPDATE: All polling places are using touchscreen voting machines, including those in Bethesda that had not been functioning properly when the polls opened this morning. The spokesperson for the Montgomery County Board of Elections, Marjorie Roher, confirms there were some technical issues at approximately 10 precincts in the Bethesda area shortly after the polls opened […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra, U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes discusses the races he’s watching closely this primary.

In this MyMCMedia Extra, Doug Duncan, democratic candidate for County Executive, says low voter turnout is something many are seeing this primary season.

In this MyMCMedia Extra, George Leventhal says small businesses need to pay attention to local politics and tell candidates what’s important to them and their business.