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Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics Monday morning the Maryland Department of Health reported 269 new COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County since Friday. This brings the cumulative case count to 23,079 since the start of the pandemic. Since the first reported case in March, 810 county residents have died from COVID-19. Since last week, Sept. 28, this […]

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics Friday morning the Maryland Department of Health reported 19,325 cases of COVID-19 in Montgomery County, which is a 0.32% increase from the 19,264 cases reported Thursday. Since the first case in March, 775 county residents have died from COVID-19. This is an increase of one death since Thursday, according to the […]

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics Thursday morning the Maryland Department of Health reported 19,264 cases of COVID-19 in Montgomery County, which is a 0.44% increase from the 19,180 cases reported Wednesday. Since the first case in March, 775 county residents have died from COVID-19. This is an increase of one death since Wednesday, according to the […]

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics Wednesday morning the Maryland Department of Health reported 19,180 cases of COVID-19 in Montgomery County, which is a 0.27% increase from the 19,127 cases reported Tuesday. Since the first case in March, 774 county residents have died from COVID-19. This is an increase of one death since Tuesday, according to the […]

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics Friday morning the Maryland Department of Health reported 18,819 cases of COVID-19 in Montgomery County, which is a 0.36% increase from the 18,752 cases reported Thursday. Since the first case in March, 769 county residents have died from COVID-19. This is an increase of one death since Thursday, according to the […]

The State Highway Administration is closing the Georgia Avenue ramp to the Interstate 495 Inner Loop tonight in Silver Spring for pavement repairs. According to the SHA, the closure will take place at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night.  The ramp should reopen by 5 a.m. on Wednesday. Drivers should plan for additional travel time and […]

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) continues to make progress on a two mile, $3.7 million safety and resurfacing project on MD 185 (Connecticut Avenue) between I-495 (Capital Beltway) and Dupont Avenue in Kensington. Currently, crews are patching in advance of grinding, paving and pavement marking work that will occur later this […]

Hundreds of employees with AOL’s hyperlocal news site Patch were laid-off in a major restructuring that will bring the number of sites nationally from more than 900 down to about 250, according to multiple reports. Patch has 11 news sites in Montgomery County run by three editors. As of Wednesday, all of the sites are […]

We are pleased to announce that Tamika Smith joins Montgomery Community Media (MCM) today (May 13) as our Community Engagement Specialist. A multimedia journalist, Tamika is already well known in Montgomery County as one of the founding members of Silver Spring Patch where she worked as a local news and community engagement editor. She also […]