Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED: Montgomery County residents will have a chance to immerse in the lives of children who live in places like Kenya and Philipines through Change the Story: The Compassion Experience- an interactive tour where people can see children’s homes, walk through schools, markets, and hear life-changing stories of people who live on less than $1.25 per […]

Cricket Anyone? We are looking for interested folks. Call 240.777.4936 to let us know.  Buy Discounted Amusement Park Tickets Busch Gardens, Diggerland USA, Dorney Park, Dutch Wonderland, Hershey Park, King’s Dominion, Sahara Sam’s Water Park, Six Flags America, Six Flags Great Adventure, Water Country. August 2 to August 16:  The following Community Recreation Centers and […]

UPDATED, July 16, 11:10 a.m. – Getting around Silver Spring is important to residents, and members of the Silver Spring Advisory Board wanted to know more about VanGo’s upcoming changes during a meeting held on July 13 at the Silver Spring Civic Center. VanGo is the Ride On free shuttle that runs in downtown Silver […]

Mark your calendar for the 7th annual Silver Spring Blues Festival to take place Saturday, June 20. You can find more information online by visiting the Silver Spring Blues website.    

Pepco is providing 1,500 free trees to customers in Maryland and the District of Columbia through its Energy-Saving Trees program. It’s the fifth year of the Pepco-Arbor Day Foundation partnership that provides two trees per household while supplies last. This year, the free trees are more developed as they’re lightly branched and 2 to 4 […]

The Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control (DLC) hosted a free Alcohol Law Education and Regulatory Training (ALERT) class for Latino business owners who serve or sell alcohol. This class was held on Feb. 23 at the Silver Spring Civic Building, and is part of a campaign that aims to avoid alcohol sales to people who are […]

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and member of the Senate Community College Caucus, today applauded President Obama’s plan to make community college more affordable for American families. “I applaud the President’s proposal to make community college tuition-free for responsible students. I believe […]

The president of Montgomery College is applauding President Obama’s proposal to make the first two years of community college free. You can read Dr. DeRionne Pollard’s official statement below: “Now more than ever, the jobs of today require a postsecondary education. Education and training is the on-ramp to the middle class—to good jobs with good […]

The Montgomery County Planning Department is offering free trees to qualifying property owners in certain urban districts of Montgomery County. The Shades of Green program, which was launched in 2012 as a pilot program, is now expanding to some additional areas of the county that have a high level of impervious surface in an effort […]

UPDATED In this Montgomery County Police video, watch Sgt. Phillip Chapin of the Montgomery County Police Department’s 2nd district free a deer that was stuck in a residential gate on South Glen Road in Potomac earlier this week. Sgt. Chapin is assisted by a United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier and several concerned residents.