Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Council on Oct. 14 recognized October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, joining with representatives of the Montgomery County Women’s Cancer Control Program, Suburban Hospital and Holy Cross Hospital to remind women to get regularly checked. Since the program began in 1985, mammography rates have more than doubled for women age 50 […]

National Voter Registration Day is Sept. 23. The Board of Elections will be distributing information on voter registration at many of the Montgomery County Metro stations. The theme for this year’s National Voter Registration Day is Celebrating Democracy in America. Americans must remember to register in September in order to vote in November. The deadline […]

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr held his first of four Community Days on Oct. 14. Starr spent the day visiting schools in the Clarksburg, Poolesville, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Seneca Valley, Watkins Mill, Northwest and Quince Orchard clusters to hear first-hand from staff, students, and parents. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS […]

  Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner on Oct. 14 wrote to Sally Jewell, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, asking for an immediate reopening of Glen Echo Park. The park has been closed as part of the federal government shutdown.   The complete text of Councilmember Berliner’s letter: Ms. Sally Jewell, Secretary United […]

Montgomery College’s Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia presents Arun Gandhi Gandhian Nonviolence: A Pathway for Resolving Modern Day Conflict Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at Globe Hall, Germantown Campus. The fall 2013 Speaker Series includes timely, stimulating topics delivered by today’s leading experts in international affairs, the arts, politics and economics. The lecture is free and […]

Residents are reminded that Montgomery County government and Montgomery County Public Schools do not observe Columbus Day on Oct. 14 as an official holiday. Most Montgomery County services will operate and facilities will be open on that day. Ride On and most other county services will operate on the normal weekly schedule. Because the State […]