Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED 8.8.16 Defense attorney Robin Ficker, who has been pushing to add a term limit question to the November ballot, turned in his petition to the County Executive’s office on Monday. According to Ficker, the petition has 18,000 signatures from Montgomery County residents. MyMCMedia’s Maureen Chowdhury reports. Ficker met with media in the lobby of the […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett talks about this year’s education budget and the impact he hopes to see from the additional funding.

Net zero policies are those that incentivize or require buildings to produce enough energy on site to meet the needs of the building’s users. Recently, members of the Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, heard from a national expert on net zero policies and learned how Montgomery County can be a part of this growing trend. […]

The Montgomery County Council has scheduled a special work session on Aug. 2nd to discuss the facts behind the July 10th outage of the county’s 911 emergency system. This special worksession before the full Council replaces a work session originally planned for July 28, before the Council’s Public Safety Committee. The work session will take […]

The Democratic National Convention takes place this week in Philadelphia and three Montgomery County Councilmembers – Nancy Floreen, George Leventhal and Craig Rice – have been elected to serve as delegates at the convention. “It is a great honor to be representing my community,” said County Councilmember George Leventhal. Leventhal says he has attended two […]

The Montgomery County Council is asking Maryland Governor Larry Hogan for safety improvements at the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and Turkey Branch Parkway following the second fatal accident at this intersection in less than a year. “Once again, we are mourning the loss of a young man who was struck and killed on Veirs […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jack Smith, School Board President Michael Durso, and County Councilmember Nancy Navarro will visit Weller Road Elementary School in Silver Spring on Wednesday to assess the impact of the “Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)” program. According to a news release, the BELL program is a public-private funded data driven summer […]

The winners of the first Montgomery County Planning Department’s Design Excellence Award were honored by the Montgomery County Council on July 12 for their projects in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. At the ceremony in Rockville were, left to right: Ernie Lunsford and Greg Ossont of the Department of General Services for representing for […]

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is scheduled to visit Montgomery County today. Here are five more things to know today, July 18, in Montgomery County: 1. The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to meet with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jack Smith today. 2. Fall tryouts for the Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club begin today. 3. The Gaithersburg […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jack Smith is scheduled to informally meet with Montgomery County Councilmembers on July 18th. According to a news release, this will be Smith’s first time meeting with Councilmembers since he officially took office on July 1st. The meeting will take place on the sixth floor of the County Council […]