Montgomery Community Media

How healthy is your air? The American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report is out today and Montgomery County gets some mixed grades. The report reviews monitoring data on the two most common and harmful types of air pollution – ozone (smog) and particle pollution (soot) – and compiles a “report card” telling […]

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week, which begins with a report about the importance of driving safely around construction zones. There are also reports about a crossing guard who helps local students cross the street safely in Gaithersburg, upcoming Council budget hearings, and reports from Montgomery County Public Schools, […]

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) issued the following statement (below) after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report on Jan. 16 of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) yellow line smoke incident that caused the death of one passenger, critical injuries to two passengers and the hospitalization of 84 others: […]

Interested in the exact statistics at a certain Montgomery County Public school? Want to see what the ethnic diversity is for your school? A new searchable report on each of the county’s 202 schools can help you get a peak at school specific data. The School Support and Improvement Framework (SSIF) report reflects the data […]

Montgomery County police are investigating a sexual assault that occurred at the Wheaton Metro parking garage last night. Detectives believe that the same suspect attempted to commit a sexual assault at that same location on the evening of December 8. According to police, at approximately 11 p.m. on Dec. 10, a 37-year-old female victim was walking […]

County Executive candidate Doug Duncan issued the following statement, in response to the report issued this week by the Montgomery County Inspector General: “This latest report confirms what every other review of the Transit Center has found:  The County’s management of this project has been an unmitigated disaster. The facility is four years late, $30 […]

Below is the Montgomery County Maryland Office of the Inspector General’s report dated April 15, 2014 covering Project Management Deficiencies in Constructing the Paul S. Sarbanes Silver Spring Transit Center. This report was made available to the public on May 20.

The Montgomery County Council will receive its seventh status report on the Silver Spring Transit Center on April 8. It will be the first briefing the elected leaders have received on the project, which is behind schedule and over budget, since November. Instead of the usual written status report from the Department of General Services, […]

UPDATED 6/21 The latest sighting of the black bear occurred at 8:30 p.m. on June 20 on Travillah Terrace near River Road, according to Ken D’Loughy of DNR. The report was called in by Montgomery County police. D’Loughy said this is good news because it means the bear is moving west towards his natural habitat. […]

Bear sightings are on the rise in Montgomery County this week. A black bear has been spotted in Gaithersburg and Germantown. Residents started reporting sightings of the bear as early as June 17, according to Department of Natural Resources Manager Ken D’Loughy. Follow MyMCMedia on facebook and Twitter for the latest. In the meantime, check out […]