Montgomery Community Media

If a disaster hits your home or business, the skilled restoration professionals at Paul Davis are ready to assist you at their brand new facility in Gaithersburg. The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) supported Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling and celebrated the grand opening of their new facility by conducting a “Ribbon Cutting” Ceremony on […]

UPDATED 4:27 p.m. There are now just over 300 Pepco customers without power in Montgomery County. UPDATED 1:27 p.m. The power is coming back on for some without power this Saturday. Totals now down to just over 800 customers in Montgomery County. UPDATED 12:18 p.m. There are over now over 1,500 Pepco customers in Montgomery […]

UPDATED Over 6,000 Pepco customers were without power in Montgomery County on Saturday night, according to online outage maps. According to Pepco’s Twitter account, crews were responding to an outage in Germantown. So far, no word on what caused the outage. Customers reported that their power was restored around midnight. Remember, if your power goes […]

UPDATED Belmont Elementary School was closed on Monday because of a 16-inch water main break in the Brookeville-Olney area. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) Spokesperson Ayoka Blandford said the break on Olney Mill Road was reported at 6:23 a.m. on Monday morning. Blandford said crews were on site and shut off the water at 7:40 […]

In this MyMCMedia, Melissa Sherrod, vice president of corporate affairs for Exelon, explains how the company’s scale and experience will help improve reliability for Pepco customers if the companies merge. Related:

Certain paths in the Malcolm King Park in Gaithersburg will be closed starting today for about seven months as work begins for the Washingtonian North Development Project. The first phase of the development plan includes an entry road and pond, according to a release from the city. Construction will also involve the installation of sewer […]

About 65 firefighters battled a two-story warehouse fire late Saturday afternoon at 16775 Oakmont Avenue. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service Spokesperson Pete Piringer said the blaze occurred in the office at the Colonial Restoration Studio. According to Piringer, the cause of the blaze was determined to be accidental. He said there were no injuries. […]

Rockville crews are busy restoring the Maryvale Park stormwater management pond and outfall this month. Rockville 11’s Morgan Lash has the story. You can find out more about this environmental project online here. Visit our PEG partner Rockville11 to view more of its programming.

Restoration work is underway on the Izaak Walton Trail culvert and splitway in Gaithersburg after the roadway was partially washed away last month after some flooding rains. Gaithersburg Project Engineer Sandra Gross said the timeline of the project was moved up because of the damage to the roadway and the need to improve the drainage […]

This week’s extremely cold temperatures were too much for some water sprinkler pipes inside some condominium units at the Quince Orchard Park community of Gaithersburg. The frozen pipes burst — some on Jan. 7 and more on Jan. 8 — in some of the brick-front condominiums along Orchard Ridge Drive and Mill Green Avenue. “All […]