Montgomery Community Media

There are 34,011 golf courses in the world, according to a report released in 2015 by the National Golf Foundation. Upon visiting Glenn Greenwood’s apartment home, it is fair to ask if he has seen them all. With his wife Amy, Mr. Greenwood lives at Riderwood retirement community in Silver Spring. In their den is […]

For Paulette Goodman, Friday, June 26 began as a typical day at her residence at Riderwood retirement community. In the morning, she ate breakfast and checked her computer’s inbox. But later, she began receiving congratulatory phone calls and emails. Ms. Goodman is considered the “Founding Mother” of the Metro DC Chapter of Parents & Friends […]

Riderwood was named as one of the Healthiest Employers in Greater Washington for 2015 in an annual competition sponsored by the Washington Business Journal. The awards reception was held on August 13 in Crystal City, Virginia. Sarah Jenkins, MSN, MPH, CRNP, the Nurse Practitioner for the Employee Health & Wellness Center, represented the Erickson Living […]

In recognition of Active Aging month, forty-two residents at Riderwood Retirement Community in Silver Spring have been hard at work creating original pieces of art that will be displayed in a public art show May 7-9. The art show titled “Feast for the Eyes II,” showcases more than 165 pieces of art which include paintings, […]

When she was a young girl visiting her grandparents’ house in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Marilyn Doherty was warned about rattlesnakes. Decades later, she would help to hold a 19-foot, 20-year old anaconda as part of her duties at the National Zoo. Doherty, 84, is a resident of Riderwood, the Erickson Living retirement […]

As Nancy Burton traced the genealogy of her family, she noted it was like gathering and deciphering evidence to solve a real-life mystery. Born and raised in Silver Spring, Burton shed light on the process of searching into the past of three families—the Burtons, the Lees and the Smiths—whose collective journeys are the foundation of […]