Montgomery Community Media

Gary Wayne Savage, 58 of Tampa, Florida, was charged with first degree murder in the Sept. 3 homicide of an adult male from Germantown following a shooting on Baileys Court in Silver Spring Sept. 3. Montgomery County Police officers were alerted to the shooting at 4:35 p.m. When they responded to the area of Baileys […]

The atmosphere will be electric on Thursday, Sept. 9 when Montgomery County breaks ground on a first-of-its-kind electric bus depot in Silver Spring. It is all part of making Montgomery County greener and bringing the county closer to the plan of net-zero emissions by the year 2035. The project was previously announced in May 2021 […]

Multiple crashes occurred on New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring Thursday afternoon. The driver of a silver Mitsubishi was involved in all of the collisions, according to Montgomery County Police. According to police who responded at 3:15 p.m. on Sept. 3, the Mitsubishi driver’s car struck a vehicle while heading north on New Hampshire Avenue […]

Montgomery County Montgomery County government has posted the following holiday schedule for the Labor Day holiday,  Monday, September 6: County Offices – closed. Libraries – closed on September 1 and 2. County-operated COVID-19 vaccination and testing centers, and the County-operated COVID-19 call center – closed Sunday, Sept. 5, and Monday, Sept. 6. County Alcohol Beverage […]

Dos adultos fueron evaluados por lesiones luego de una colisión en New Hampshire Avenue y Briggs Chaney Road, en Silver Spring, el jueves en horas de la tarde. Según un tuit del jefe de la unidad de Bomberos y Rescate del Condado de Montgomery, Steve Mann, una persona podría tener lesiones potencialmente mortales. El accidente […]

Montgomery County Police Department’s Major Crimes Division released surveillance video showing an attempted armed carjacking that occurred outside a gas station in Silver Spring. Detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying the people in the video. According to an MCPD news release, detectives determined the incident occurred at around 2 a.m. on Aug. […]

Mounds of dishes, pots and pans, toys, blankets and cleaning products piled high on the driveway and parking area of Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington await sorting by volunteers from all over the country For the past two weeks, after a simple request on a neighborhood list serve, area residents and others from as […]

Veteran’s Plaza in Downtown Silver Spring Sunday was a Carnival Nation. Colorful clothing, aromatic food smells, face painting and lots of dancing occurred Sunday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Constant music from live bands or disc jockeys filled the plaza as people enjoyed feasting on jerk chicken, macaronie pie, curry goat or chicken, fried […]

A Montgomery County resident just became $100,000 richer. The 70-year-old Silver Spring man, whose name was not identified by the Maryland Lottery, purchased two instant scratch-off tickets at Wheaton Winery located at 2211 University Boulevard in Silver Spring. He typically plays one instant game each day but decided to buy a second ticket this time. […]

En todo el país, los asilos de ancianos luchan por vacunar a su personal contra el COVID-19. Cabe mencionar que los asilos del condado de Montgomery se destacan por lograr que la gran mayoría de sus trabajadores se vacunen. Según el periódico The New York Times, aproximadamente el 40% de la fuerza laboral de los […]