Montgomery Community Media

Here are some of our weekend picks from the MyMCMedia.org calendar: Friday, February 12 The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival opens today with school Jazz band performances. Headliners this year include Grammy Winners Terence Blanchard, Kurt Elling, and Poncho Sanchez. The Festival takes place in Rockville throughout the weekend at the Rockville Hilton, here’s the schedule of performances. […]

Jazz pianist, vocalist and composer Mark G Meadows is joined by singer songwriter Rochelle Rice for the next Jazz in the Round concert at Sandy Spring Museum Friday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. This special Valentine’s show offers an intimate performance in the museum’s Rotunda. Mark G Meadows was recently named both 2014 “Artist of […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police are investigating a fatal collision involving a Honda CRV that struck a utility pole in the 300 block of Olney-Sandy Spring Road near Sherwood High School around 8 a.m. on Sunday in the Ashton area. The police department’s Collision Reconstruction Unit is conducting the investigation. According to police, the preliminary investigation […]

Four times is a charm for the Sherwood High School girls softball team. The Sandy Spring team beat Northwest in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association 4A championship game. Here’s the road that led them there. The ladies took home the trophy on Saturday. It’s the team’s fourth straight state championship. Perfection: Sherwood’s softball […]

A preliminary report of the fatal crash of a helicopter and plane in Frederick Oct. 23 indicates that the pilot of the plane may not have seen the third helicopter reported in the area as he prepared to land. The National Transportation Safety Board recently released its preliminary report of the fatal crash that killed […]

UPDATED, Oct. 31, 4:30 p.m.- All those involved in a major collision in Sandy Spring appear to have non-life-threatening injuries, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Spokesman Pete Piringer. All five kids and two adults in the minivan involved in the accident survived thanks to passenger safety seat and child seats, Piringer said. The […]

Here are five things to know today, Sept. 4, in Montgomery County: 1. Gaithersburg city leaders will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand reopening of the Gaithersburg Aquatic Center at 2 Teachers Way today. 2. Montgomery County officials will hold a ground breaking ceremony for the Colesville Highway Maintenance Depot. 3. A public hearing […]

The Montgomery County Planning Department, part of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, will hold a public hearing on the Sandy Spring Rural Village Plan on Thursday, Sept. 4, at its regularly scheduled Board Meeting, which will be held at 8787 Georgia Avenue. Residents are invited to give their views on land use, transportation, and […]

  In 1814 James Madison was President of the U.S. On August 26 of that year, and during the war, President Madison  left Washington DC and went to Brookeville MD and held up there  for a day. Since then Brookeville has been  known as the U.S. Capital for a day. There is a sign, as […]

Montgomery County police are investigating two fatal motorcycle accidents that occurred on July 4. The first accident occurred at University Boulevard at Dennis Avenue and police described it on Twitter as a single motorcycle accident. On his Twitter account at 5:20 p.m., Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer said the motorcycle hit a pole. The […]