Montgomery Community Media

It’s the literary party of the season: the reception for the authors attending the 6th annual Gaithersburg Book Festival. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports the invite list for this special party includes not only authors but city officials, sponsors and the tireless volunteers who work year round on this event. You can find out more about […]

The City of Gaithersburg will hold city elections on Nov. 3 for the office of Mayor and several Council seats and two of the six polling places will be new this election cycle. City Attorney Lynn Board said the polling place at Asbury Methodist Village is changing from the Hefner building to the Rosborough Center […]

If you missed Gaithersburg’s State of the City event you can watch it here: For more on the State of the City, visit here.

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke sits down with Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman and bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen to get the inside scoop on the May 16th Gaithersburg Book Festival.

Rockville city leaders honored a community member and a local business with Environmental Excellence Awards recognizing their contributions to Rockville’s environmental health and sustainability earlier this week. • Kris Dighe received the Carl Henn Outstanding Individual Environmental Stewardship award in recognition of his leadership on the Environment Commission. Dighe chaired the commission when it helped […]

It was an emotional interview for Sebastian Espinoza-Carranza at his home in Gaithersburg. The teen was arrested and charged with vandalizing a Gaithersburg synagogue. The 18-year-old teen says he is not a racist person and that he is really sorry. The congregation’s surveillance video helped lead police to Spinoza-Carranza. It shows him allegedly spray painting swastikas, […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Sidney Katz and Rockville Mayor Bridget Newton helped celebrate the 25th anniversary of Rockville-based Giuseppi’s Pizza Plus on April 13. Sheriff Darren Popkin was at the ceremony as well. Take a look:

UPDATED Gaithersburg police officers are looking for the vandal(s) who defaced the Shaare Torah synagogue in Gaithersburg. “At this time, detectives are continuing to investigate the incident,” said Officer Dane Lane. “They are following up on leads and speaking with citizens who may have or may not have seen anything. We are always looking for more […]

Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark Sroka said detectives have identified a “person of interest” who could be involved in the Shaare Torah Synagogue vandalism case. Local authorities have surveillance footage showing a masked person running away from the building.  Sroka said the report came in at 7:10 a.m. this morning. That’s when police officers found eleven swastikas and other […]

Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman has issued a statement about the vandalism earlier today at Shaare Torah Synagogue. You can read it below: “This morning the City Council and I were informed that Shaare Torah Synagogue in Gaithersburg was defaced overnight with swastikas and other racist references. An investigation by the Gaithersburg Police Department is ongoing. […]