Montgomery Community Media

Here are five things to know today, August 10th, in Montgomery County: 1. It’s Tax-Free Week: You may save some money if you do your back-to-school clothes shopping this week. Find out more about Tax-Free Week on the Maryland Comptroller’s website here. 2. Welcome Home Champ: Bethesda’s Katie Ledecky is on her way home today […]

ORIGINAL POST UPDATED 7.24.15 The Kentlands Citizens Assembly (KCA) is requesting $900,000 from the city of Gaithersburg to fix a retaining wall that runs along Quince Orchard Road. A section of the wall partially collapsed over a year ago. The KCA’s request was transmitted in a letter dated July 9th to the Mayor and Council and […]

The City of Gaithersburg is one of 57 cities and towns in the State of Maryland to earn designation as a Maryland Municipal League (MML) Banner City/Town. This is the ninth consecutive year that Gaithersburg has received the honor, which it has earned since the program’s inception in 2007. Only seven other municipalities have that […]

The Gaithersburg Mayor and City Council will hold a public hearing during a special session on Monday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss a proposed amendment to the city’s Ethics Ordinance. The proposed ordinance includes comprehensive changes to bring the City’s ethics provisions into compliance with state statutory requirements, ensuring that those requirements are […]

A Montgomery County Council Committee will learn more about the status of the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) on Monday morning. The Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee is scheduled to receive an update on the CCT, which is a planned busway extension from the Shady Grove Metrorail Station north to Clarksburg. The Committee is chaired […]

The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) conducted a “Ribbon Cutting” Ceremony for Delivering Opportunities thru Vocational Education Services (DOVES), located at 438 N. Frederick Avenue, Suite 215 in Gaithersburg on June 23RD. DOVES enriches and empowers the community by providing career development, information technology services, vocational, and job skills training that promote individual growth and […]

As The Gazette hits driveways and front stoops for the last time today, questions turn to how to preserve what has already been published. Rockville Councilmember Tom Moore told MyMCMedia he has reached out to The Washington Post to find out plans to archive the issues, but he said he has not gotten a response. […]

The loss of the Gazette newspaper means a little more money for another community newspaper. A city of Gaithersburg spokesperson says legal ads scheduled to run this week in the Gazette newspaper will be running in the Sentinel newspaper instead. “We are conducting a cost analysis of the various publications that meet State requirements for […]

A grand opening was held for the newly expanded and renamed Benjamin Gaither Center in Gaithersburg on June 11th. The newly expanded and renamed center serves those ages 55+ and was formerly known as the Gaithersburg Senior Center. “Gaithersburg is committed to being an inclusive community that honors its history and embraces its future. We […]

Newcomers and some incumbents have picked up the information they need to become candidates in the upcoming race for the Gaithersburg City Council or to serve as the city’s next mayor. The city’s election is set for Nov. 3rd. Gaithersburg officials made the candidate packets available starting June 5, however the information can also be […]