Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee and its Health and Human Services Committee will meet jointly at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 27, for a work session on the County’s opioid prevention program. In response to a statewide 54 percent increase in heroin-related overdose deaths from 2011 to 2012 and a 15 percent increase […]

The MC311 Customer Service Center will host a 24-member Chinese delegation of senior public administration officials from the Province of Qinghai on January 17. This is the fifth visit by a Chinese delegation to the County’s MC311 customer service center. MC311 staff will give a brief overview of their operation and demonstrate the Constituent Relationship […]

UPDATED It is official: Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz is running for the District 3 Montgomery County Council seat. Mayor Katz said he will make a formal announcement about his upcoming campaign later this month. ORIGINAL POST Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz has confirmed he is considering a run for Montgomery County Council. In a telephone conversation […]

After serving the residents of District 5 as a member of the County Council for the past seven years, Valerie Ervin has announced she will be leaving public office next month to become executive director of The Center for Working Families. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

The Montgomery County Council meets at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3 and the leaders are scheduled to elect new officers for the 2013-14 year. The election of a new president and vice president will mark the end of the one-year term as Council president of Councilmember Nancy Navarro. Craig Rice is the current Council […]

The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to receive updates on the delayed Silver Spring Transit Center and on the status of the Affordable Care Act on Nov. 19 The Council also is scheduled to take action on the Long Branch Section Plan and to hold its second worksession on the Countywide Transit Corridors Functional Master […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police – Collision Reconstruction Unit are investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Nov. 3 along Connecticut Avenue in Wheaton. At approximately 1:20 a.m., 4th District officers responded to Connecticut Avenue and Adams Drive for a report of a personal injury collision.  Officers located a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu that was […]

The Montgomery County Council is expected to devote much of its weekly general session on Oct. 15 to the proposed Glenmont Sector Plan. The plan addresses future development of the area along Georgia Avenue, just north of Wheaton. The Council’s morning session will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Third Floor Hearing Room of the […]

Some University of Maryland students and their professor helped lead an introduction to music composition for a third grade class at Stedwick Elementary in Montgomery Village on Sept. 24. The students and their professor were invited by third grade teacher Mary Ruth McGinn, who was looking for some outside help in teaching her students about […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Planning, Housing and Economic Development (PHED) Committee, at 2:15 p.m. on July 30, will continue its extensive review of the first proposed major changes in the County Zoning Ordinance since 1978. At the worksession, among the items to be discussed are a proposed reduction in the number of parking spaces required […]