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Ride On bus passengers can help needy families and receive a free bus ride by donating canned or nonperishable food during Ride On’s annual food drive. The food drive, started by a group of bus drivers over 20 years ago, goes from Sunday, April 22, through Saturday April 28, 2012. During the week, food collection […]

The Montgomery County Council sent a letter on April 26, signed by all nine Councilmembers, to Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett expressing its surprise to learn that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) would not accept the Silver Spring Transit Center as contemplated by the Memorandum of Understanding between WMATA and Montgomery County. The […]

Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, current secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission and former administrator of the U.S. Veterans Administration gave the keynote presentation at the Vietnam Veterans Reunion on April 22 at Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring. Cleland was a U.S. senator from Georgia from 1996 to 2002. The event was hosted by […]

Veterans of every era and the public are invited to attend the fourth annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Reunion on Monday, April 22 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza located at Fenton St. and Ellsworth Dr in Downtown Silver Spring. Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, current secretary of […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Phil Andrews (D-Gaithersburg-Rockville) has introduced a resolution before the County Council to reduce the 2010 increase in the county’s energy tax by 10 percent. In 2010, the county raised the energy tax by 155 percent on homeowners and by nearly 60 percent on businesses and non-profit organizations. Reducing the 2010 energy tax […]

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett is celebrating the accomplishments achieved by Montgomery County in Annapolis this year. “Montgomery County’s number one priority for more than 10 years has been to obtain more transportation funding,” said Leggett on April 10. “Six years ago, I virtually stood alone in advocating for an increase in the state’s gasoline […]

UPDATED 5:45 p.m. 4/10 Montgomery County’s newest Costco opened its doors at 8 a.m. to thousands of people and some minor problems. “We had thousands of people, holiday season volumes,” said Pat Fahey, Costco’s general manager in Wheaton. “We were a lot busier than we thought.” According to Fahey, there were some minor power problems […]

Montgomery County expects construction on the Silver Spring Transit Center to resume this summer. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett comments on the status of the transit center and his earlier decision to delay construction. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

County Executive Isiah Leggett was joined on April 2 by County Council Vice President Craig Rice to kick off April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. They urged residents to help families and children in Montgomery County through the “Power of One” campaign.  The backdrop for the event was a sea of blue pinwheels, which are […]

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, County Council President Nancy Navarro and Council member Nancy Floreen will attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Scotland Neighborhood Recreation Center at 11 a.m. on March 27 at 7700 Scotland Drive in Potomac. The new center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014. The elected leaders will […]