Montgomery Community Media

In light of fights during a recent football game and two recent shelter in place events at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Principal Marc Cohen held a one-hour informational meeting that mostly included answers to questions from concerned parents. Speakers at the virtual meeting included Seneca Valley administrators, two representatives from Montgomery County Police […]

Seneca Valley High School in Germantown sheltered in place Wednesday after receiving a text message “threatening the safety of our school during the lunch period,” Principal Marc Cohen informed parents. A short time later, the students sheltered in place for about 15 minutes after a physical education teacher and some students thought they heard gun […]

Montgomery County Council Vice President Gabe Albornoz spoke about recent fighting during a Northwest at Seneca Valley high school football game and “other reported incidents of violence in our public schools” during a press briefing Monday. Albornoz stressed that the safety and security of everyone who attends or works at Montgomery County Public Schools “is […]

Update (Sept. 18): Court records show that the student who hit a classmate with a frying pan at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda faces first-degree assault charges. Police identified the student who was arrested at Whitman Monday morning as 19-year-old Prince Cutchember of Bethesda. Cutchember is being held without bail at the Montgomery County […]

UPDATED 9/22 at 3:54 p.m. A 15-year-old girl remains in critical condition after she was struck by a police car in front of Watkins Mill High School at 9:14 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21. Montgomery County police said the accident happened after extra police were called to the school to help break up some fights […]