Montgomery Community Media

As winners of the 10th annual Mayor’s Book Club Contest, students from Laytonsville Elementary will eat hamburgers with Gaithersburg mayor Jud Ashman at the end of the school year. The students, from teacher Diane Hudson’s class, won the lunchtime treat by reading at least 30  minutes a day for one month. This is the second […]

A court ruling in Annapolis has reversed a local court and declared Montgomery County legislation that restricted certain lawn pesticides is legal. The County Council had passed the pesticide bill in 2015. In upholding the county’s pesticide ban, the Court of Special Appeals cited Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” which documented adverse environmental effects from pesticides. […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) welcomed the largest enrollment in the district’s history today. According to MCPS officials, the enrollment is now over 159,000 students which is 2,500 more students than last year. MCPS Superintendent Jack Smith began the first day of school at the Clarksburg Bus Depot on Aug. 29. That’s where 204 buses […]

Housing development in Olde Towne has got the green light to move ahead after a new report shows Gaithersburg Elementary School serving that area now has adequate capacity. And that’s good news for the city that has been anxious to do more revitalization in downtown. Gaithersburg Elementary, which had been in strict moratorium in fiscal […]

Montgomery County Exeuctive Ike Leggett and other local officials will participate at Read Across America Day activities at local elementary schools on March 1. Leggett will be reading at Rockwell Elementary in Damascus, Rachel Carson Elementary in Gaithersburg and Jones Lane in Gaithersburg. For more info about Read Across America: http://www.nea.org/grants/886.htm