Montgomery Community Media

Rachel Carson Elementary School’s fifth grade class celebrated Career Day on June 7th. PTA President Paula Ross said the students are studying careers in their curriculum unit and this was a chance for the fifth graders to ask questions and hear directly from people working in a variety of professional fields before they head off […]

A Center for Enriched Studies, formerly known as the Center Program for the Highly Gifted, will open at Rachel Carson Elementary School and three others schools for the 2017-2018 school year. In a letter to parents on Tuesday, Maria Navarro, chief academic officer for Montgomery County Public Schools, described the program’s expansion as “exciting news.” […]

One Gaithersburg elementary school community is so concerned about overcrowding at the school it is making an unusual request to the county to allow developers nearby to submit plans that call for more housing to be built there. The petition being circulated by the Rachel Carson Elementary Capacity discussion group, including members of the school’s PTA, actually […]

Montgomery County has no plans to allow a school to be built on land it owns off of Route 28 in Gaithersburg, the county’s Deputy Director of General Services told MyMCMedia Thursday. The county acquired the 52-acre parcel which includes the former National Geographic building at 100 Edison Park Drive and relocated county services to […]

UPDATED Kentlands Day is an annual celebration in the downtown Kentlands community in Gaithersburg. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports this year’s event set some records. Take a look. The weather was perfect for Kentlands Day on May 4 and organizers described attendance as record-setting. Over 22,000 people attended the event in Gaithersburg. “This was definitely our […]