Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Councilmember Sidney Katz will hold a public meeting for Rockville area residents on Wednesday, March 16. The meeting will be held at Beall Elementary School and is open to the public. According to a news release, Councilmember Katz will use the meeting as an opportunity to hear from Rockville area residents and provide […]

The Montgomery County House Delegation is scheduled to receive a briefing on the Watkins Mill Interchange at a meeting on Friday morning in Annapolis. According to an agenda for the meeting, State Highway Administrator Greg Johnson is scheduled to be part of the briefing. Just last week, Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn met with Montgomery […]

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett helped cut the ribbon for the refreshed Twinbrook Library branch at 202 Meadow Hall Drive in Rockville on Saturday. “I am pleased to cut the ribbon for this freshly renewed Twinbrook Branch,” said Leggett at the grand reopening ceremony. “This is the first branch completed under my new CIP refresh […]

Local leaders and community activists gathered at the Montgomery County Council chambers today to announce the Council’s effort to eliminate traffic deaths on Montgomery County roads by joining the national Vision Zero program. The Vision Zero initiative actually began in Sweden. Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner is spearheading the local effort, with the support of all […]

More than 3,000 volunteers across Montgomery County pitched in to help make their community a better place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In this MyMCMedia video, Willie James Inman reports on the 2016 MLK Day of Service events in Silver Spring and North Bethesda. Volunteers participated in over 40 activities that benefited more than 40 nonprofits […]

Lorna Virgil hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week. This week’s show begins with a report from the first of five budget forums. Watch the show in its entirety, below:

Montgomery County Councilmember Sidney Katz is celebrating the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Councilmember Katz posted a Gazette cover from 1999 in honor of the premiere, where he and Deputy Director of the Planning Department Rose Krasnow are dressed as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. “The Gazette newspaper called Rose Krasnow, who was […]

It’s described as a Who’s Who of Montgomery County. The Committee for Montgomery’s annual legislative breakfast draws hundreds of people each year. In this MyMCMedia Extra, we talk to some of those in the crowd about why this event is so popular. Related Posts:

More than 100 third graders from Fairland Elementary School visited the Montgomery County government on Dec. 10 to learn more about how local government operates. Among the speakers with whom they engaged was County Councilmember Sidney Katz, who talked about the role of the County’s legislative branch.

More than 30 members of print and broadcast media organizations whose primary audiences are the various Asian communities that are a rapidly growing part of the Montgomery County on Dec. 10 attended the launch of the Montgomery County Council’s new initiative to improve the flow of information to those residents. Among those who addressed the […]