Montgomery Community Media

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week and this show begins with a report on an executive order that Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed this week requiring public schools to begin after Labor Day. There are also reports on Montgomery County Public Schools record enrollment, the need for election workers […]

Summer is over for 159,000 students who head back to class for a new school year on August 29th in Montgomery County. Local officials say their top priority is keeping those students safe. This week, county officials have announced the expansion of the school bus camera enforcement program because motorists passing stopped school buses continues […]

When school starts on Aug. 29, there will be 100 school bus cameras watching local roads or four times more cameras than last year. That’s the word from Captain Tom Didone who talked about the expansion of the school bus camera program on the latest episode of County Report This Week:

The Montgomery County Council held a meeting today about the relocation of the Shady Grove Bus Depot. In the audience were members of the Carver Coalition who oppose parking school buses at the Carver Educational Services Center. The residents were not allowed to testify at today’s meeting but they carried signs and wore yellow t-shirts […]

It’s been over ten years since county officials knew the Shady Grove bus depot was going to have to be relocated as part of the Shady Grove Sector Plan, and during that time, a county official says over 200 sites have been considered for hundreds of school buses that are currently located at the Shady […]

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue officials say two students were transported to a hospital with minor injuries after a car collided with a school bus in Rockville. According to Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer, the incident happened at Oak Knoll Drive and Casey Lane. Update – Oak Knoll Dr & , Fallsgrove, 2-vehicle collision, EMS […]

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue services are on the scene of an accident involving a school bus at Connecticut Avenue and Randolph Road in Wheaton. According to MCFRS spokesperson Pete Piringer, the school bus was not transporting students at the time of the collision. Update (PDO) property damage collision – Connecticut Av & Randolph Rd, […]

Make no doubt about it: Montgomery County public schools are opening on time on Monday morning. That’s the latest message from MCPS administrators on the district’s website. It will be the first time that MCPS students have been in class in over a week because of weather and road conditions following the Blizzard of 2016. […]

Local authorities report that two right lanes of I-270 at Montrose Road were closed this afternoon because of a school bus in need of repairs. MCPS Spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala said two school buses with students aboard were headed to Goshen Elementary School from a field trip at Strathmore this afternoon when one of the drivers […]

Here are your five things to know today, Oct. 21, in Montgomery County: 1. Simon Premium Outlets is celebrating its official Clarksburg ground breaking today. 2. Montgomery County Councilmembers Sidney Katz and Craig Rice are holding a community meeting tonight at Quince Orchard High School. 3. Montgomery County police are reminding motorists of the Maryland […]