Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County and the cities of Gaithersburg and Rockville recently hosted Water Safety Day at the Water Park in Gaithersburg. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. You can find information about swim lessons on the Department of Recreation’s website.

Summer is just a few weeks away and Montgomery County’s summer camps are always popular with our area’s youth. So is it too late to sign up? Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

The Piney Branch Pool in Takoma Park faces closure if county funds used to subsidize it dry up this year. The 25-meter pool is used by swimmers, senior citizens and even the Montgomery Blair High School swim team, but without county funds it might have to shut at the end of the fiscal year, June […]

Safe Silver Spring, a community civic group, is scheduled to host a meeting on April. 20, 7 p.m. at the Long Branch Community Center at 8700 Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring. According to the organization’s newsletter, the purpose of this meeting is to discuss current job opportunities and training programs for teens, especially minority […]

Several seniors gathered at Holiday Park to hear Montgomery County officials unveil statistics from the Home Safety Check program that was launched last fall. The results were alarming and that’s why firefighters continue to remind residents about the importance of having working smoke detectors. Lorna Virgili reports. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to […]

The reviews are in for the second annual Maker Faire, an event that was hosted by the KID Museum in Silver Spring on Sept. 14. Find out what people are saying in this MyMCMedia Extra:

In a public/private partnership with the Jewish Council for the Aging, Montgomery County moves forward with a new project to provide transportation service to residents living near the county’s five senior centers. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming. For more information, visit MontgomeryCountyMD.Gov/Seniors or call 240.777.4980   […]

Montgomery County Recreation Department Director Gabriel Albornoz has received the National Football League’s Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award. The award is presented by Courtyard by Marriott during Hispanic Heritage Month in all 32 NFL markets nationally. Albornoz was recognized onstage during a star-studded 26th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. […]

Local county and state officials recently turned out for the opening of the newly renovated Plum Gar Recreation Center.  Lorna Virgili reports.   Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Montgomery County Recreation and Montgomery Parks, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, recently received the Project Excellence Award from the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (SORP) for their Vision 2030 Strategic Plan and the 2012 Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Plan. The prestigious award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the field of outdoor recreation research, […]