Montgomery Community Media

Like the transition from Black & White to Color Television, the move from Standard Definition programming to High Definition TV has long since been the new standard television. I know I don’t watch those lower channels on my cable any longer, preferring to use my HD Television to its full effect. I bet you’re the […]

Fall is in the air. You may need a light jacket this morning and an umbrella later today. Here are five more things to know today, Sept. 26, in Montgomery County: 1. Progress Place: The County Council’s Health and Human Services Committee is scheduled to receive an update on the construction of the new Progress […]

It’s Friday, and the second day of fall. Here are your five things to know today, Sept. 23, in Montgomery County: 1. Human Trafficking: A regional conference about preventing and prosecuting human trafficking takes place today at the Universities at Shady Grove. 2. Fatal Overdoses on the Rise:  The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene […]

The winners of the first Montgomery County Planning Department’s Design Excellence Award were honored by the Montgomery County Council on July 12 for their projects in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. At the ceremony in Rockville were, left to right: Ernie Lunsford and Greg Ossont of the Department of General Services for representing for […]

North Bethesda has been named the best place to live in Maryland in 2016 by Niche, an online site that provides rankings, report cards, and reviews of cities, colleges, neighborhoods, and K-12 schools. North Bethesda also cracked Niche’s “2016 Best Places to Live in America” top 25 list, ranking 18, while Forest Glen ranked 24th. Statewide, […]

Here are five things to know today, May 6th, in Montgomery County: 1. Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld will hold a news conference today at 11 a.m. to lay out a plan to improve the safety and reliability of the Metrorail system. The news conference will take place at Metro’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.  2. Mayor […]

The town of Chevy Chase is the snobbiest small town in America and the neighboring tiny town of Somerset is right behind it, according to the website AreaVibes.com. The website used criteria such as median home price, median household income, percent of population with a college degree, private schools per capita, theaters per capita, and […]

Jeffrey Slavin, board chair of Montgomery Community Media, recently was interviewed on Comcast’s Newsmakers. Mayor Slavin talked about MCM’s programming, classes, website and the upcoming event for Vietnam Veterans at the Universities at Shady Grove. You can watch the Newsmakers episode, below: https://youtu.be/bZvsIyfobKY Slavin, for those who don’t know, is also the mayor of the […]

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) will hear from residents on August 7 at a 7 p.m. public hearing scheduled at the Montgomery County Council office building to discuss the power outages that followed the June 29 derecho. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke interviewed some Montgomery County residents, who are expected to testify at the PSC meeting, […]