Montgomery Community Media

The 40th Annual Festival of Lights in Kensington opens on Thursday, November 30 and continues through Sunday, December 31. The festival includes a walking display of more than 650,000 lights, nightly musical performances in the indoor theater, indoor decorated Christmas trees, exhibit of crèches from around the world, and a life-sized outdoor nativity. The festival […]

Update (~630p) 1718 Republic Rd; singe family house; Cause, accidental, electrical; Area of Origin, bsmt bedroom; Damage, $125K; at least 3 displaced; no one home at time, no injury, >50 FFs OS pic.twitter.com/gw24IdyB1m — Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 20, 2017 A Sunday night fire in Silver Spring displaced three people, a Montgomery County Fire and […]

The holiday season is here and there are numerous events happening around Montgomery County to mark the occasion. There’s everything from tree lightings, winter festivals, light displays and holiday performances. Check out a full list of events, below. Nov. 17: Tree Lighting Celebration & Fireworks at Rio Washingtonian Center, at 6 p.m. Join us on […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) maintain an extensive collection of materials for county residents to check out. Have you ever wondered what the county’s library visitors are reading? We turned to our county’s librarians to find out. For the month of October, the most read books by genre are: Juvenile Fiction Garfield Eats Crow: His […]

Montgomery County police released today home surveillance video from an Oct. 8 residential burglary in Kensington in hopes the public can help identify the culprits. On Sunday, Oct. 8, about 1:22 p.m., Bethesda District officers responded to a home in the 10100 block of Thornwood Road for the report of a residential burglary, police said. […]

Public safety news once again dominated our Top 10 stories, based on web traffic, for the past week. But we also have a football game, Montgomery County Board of Education mulling a new calendar, gubernatorial candidates and the County Council’s thoughts on the merger of two gas companies. Guidance Counselor Charged With Committing Sex Offenses […]

A guidance counselor at Albert Einstein High School has been charged with committing sexual offenses against two women he met on the social media app, “Tinder.” Colin Sime Black, 33, of Clemson Court in Rockville, was arrested Thursday with a criminal warrant that charged him with two counts of second-degree sexual offense and one count […]

Montgomery County police have released surveillance video of a Sept. 22 armed robbery of a Wheaton gas station in hopes that the public can help identify the culprits, according to a police statement released Tuesday. Investigators believe that the men also committed a Sept. 1 armed robbery of a food truck that was parked near […]

Montgomery County police have released a surveillance photo from a May 8 bank robbery in Wheaton in hopes the public can help identify the culprit. The robbery occurred about 11:18 a.m. at an M&T Bank, at 12041 Georgia Ave. The culprit handed a note to the teller demanding money, police said. Once the man obtained […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) maintain an extensive collection of materials for county residents to check out. Have you ever wondered what the county’s library visitors are reading? We turned to our county’s librarians to find out. For the month of September, the most read books by genre are: Juvenile Fiction The Force Oversleeps (Star […]