Montgomery Community Media

First responders with Montgomery County Police Department and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services brightened the day of 2-year-old boy from Kensington earlier this week. Several members of the fire and rescue units showed up to celebrate with Conor Kehoe, his family and friends on Monday. Kehoe was diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on Dec. […]

Ben Lesser, a Walt Whitman High school senior, is battling leukemia at Children’s National Medical Center and is in critical need of a bone marrow donor. Since receiving the diagnosis about five weeks ago, he’s been in intensive care. Whitman High students, family and friends are rallying around him and encourage others to get tested […]

Don’t leave the house without an umbrella today. A flood watch has been issued for our area. Here are five more things to know today, Feb. 3, in Montgomery County: 1. Gaithersburg residents can register for the city’s popular summer camps beginning at 6 a.m. today. 2. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan will deliver his State […]

Gaithersburg City Councilmember Henry Marraffa watched the Iowa caucuses from his hospital bed on Monday night where he is undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. He said his prognosis is good. “I was diagnosed this week with leukemia, an extension of the MDS [Myelodysplastic Syndromes] I was being treated for the last two years,” Marraffa wrote in […]

Brian Monday, TD Bank Regional President talks about his experiences with blood cancer patients and how TD Bank supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s research and patient care programs for these vicious diseases. To see the entire episode, watch Studio 501c3 on Sundays at 9:30 am and on Tuesdays at noon and 8 pm.

Four-year-old Rett Bush suffers from leukemia, but he’s a real fighter. We hear from his mother, Kristen Bush, about his struggle to remain “all boy” in the midst of chemotherapy, sickness and uncertainty. To see the entire episode, watch Studio 501c3 on Sundays at 9:30 am and on Tuesdays at noon and 8 pm.