Montgomery Community Media

It is time to roll up your sleeves for Montgomery County’s Community Service Week, scheduled for Oct. 16 – 22. Take a look: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming. Sign up to volunteer at the Montgomery County Volunteer Center website or call 240.777.2608.

Montgomery County hosted the Library of the Future Summit on Sept. 24 in Silver Spring. Take a look: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Latino leaders in the county, whose work on social justice issues have helped shape the community, talked about inclusion, diversity in the workforce, the use minority-owned contractors, civic engagement for Latino families, parental engagement, and more at the “The Current State of the Latino Community in Montgomery County” event in Rockville. The meeting was hosted by […]

At the Sept. 29 Montgomery County Council meeting, Councilmember Nancy Floreen recognized Jim Clifford for swimming the English Channel. Clifford trains at the Germantown Aquatic Center and is the recipient of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Members of the Triple Crown have successfully completed three swims: (1) across the English Channel between England […]

Montgomery County residents were among the thousands who flocked to Washington, D.C. in hopes of seeing Pope Francis. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports it was a “mission of love.”

Montgomery County officials are proposing to relocate the Confederate soldier monument from the Red Brick Courthouse property to the Beall-Dawson Historic Park at 103 West Montgomery Avenue in Rockville. You may remember that just last week, the Rockville Historic District Commission (HDC) approved the county’s request to move the statue from its current location at […]

Cuteness alert!  In this MyMCMedia Extra video (below), watch the Preschool Popemobile Parade that took place at St. Jude Regional Catholic School in Rockville at the same time as the Papal Parade in Washington, D.C. The parade was timed to coincide with the papal parade in Washington, D.C. In case you are wondering, that’s Maximiliano Hernandez […]

A Silver Spring resident is getting four tickets for the papal mass on Sept. 23 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Monica Carranza submitted a video entitled, “Tira La Red Mission: El Salvador 2015” for the Archdiocese of Washington’s YouServe video competition where she shared the story of a mission trip […]

It’s been one year since siblings Sarah and Jacob Hoggle went missing from their Clarksburg home. Their mother, Catherine Hoggle, is the last known person to have seen them. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke recently sat down with the children’s father to talk about their disappearance and his determination to find them. You can find more information […]

UPDATED: Sept. 16, 9:46 a.m. — They met through Instagram and were friends for more than three years. Evelynn Santos, a Damascus High School student, said John Martin DeReggi Jr- the teen struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Boyds on Monday afternoon- was a loving and affectionate person. “We ended up dating, and […]