Montgomery Community Media

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Lisa Schifferle of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) tells a standing room only crowd in Germantown that the agency’s main mission is to prevent identity theft and fraud. During her short presentation, she provided some valuable information about identity theft to residents, many of them federal employees who are concerned […]

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal is calling for an Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) review of the salaries of Montgomery County’s “high level managers.” In a memo to Councilmembers on July 13th, he said: “Our managers do an excellent job, but my sense is that in many cases their salaries are well above those […]

Looking for a job? Not Your Average Joe’s, a New England-based restaurant, is currently hiring more than 100 employees for its new Bethesda location. The restaurant is slated to open on July 5th in the Georgetown Square Shopping Center, 10400 Old Georgetown Road. According to a news release, the restaurant is seeking energetic, professional and […]

Montgomery College’s wellness program is popular with employees. Rachel Moskal reports. MC Wellness Honored from Montgomery College CBT Dept on Vimeo.

One resident was not allowed to receive a library card or read books in the library. Another grew up in a property bought by his great-great-grandmother who was a slave to the Beall family in Rockville. But all of them had one thing in common: they fought and still fight for equal, fair, and just treatment […]

Montgomery County employees honored Black History Month with a special ceremony on Feb. 5 at the Universities at Shady Grove. It was a celebration of education, diversity, and a time to honor ordinary people doing extraordinary things. “We are who we are today because of our ancestors and because of the people currently living today. […]

Many companies encourage their employees to participate in health and wellness activities, especially in the summer months, and Erickson Living, the management company of Riderwood retirement community, is no exception. On July 12, employees from six of the retirement communities in Erickson Living’s national network competed in the annual employee softball tournament in Savage, Md.  […]

Manna Food Center is celebrating its 30th year in Montgomery County and employees and volunteers served a record number of people during the days leading up to Thanksgiving. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. For more info: www.mannafood.org.   Related stories:  

Wegmans will open its first Montgomery County store on Sept. 15 in Germantown. The company has hired nearly 600 employees to staff the store and they have been training for months. Find out more in this MyMCMedia extra:

On April 22nd, dozens of Montgomery County residents emailed hundreds of photographs documenting a look at life around Montgomery County to the MyMCMedia.org website. In this report, MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke looks back at the photo project, entitled “A Day in the Life of Montgomery County.”