Montgomery Community Media

About three dozen restaurants in Silver Spring are joining together from Sept. 8 – 13 to start a new tradition, Silver Spring Restaurant Week. Participating restaurants will offer special lunch and dinner fixed-price menus throughout the week to encourage residents from around Montgomery County to discover some of the area’s best dining establishments. Susan Kenedy reports. […]

A contractor for the Maryland State Highway Administration, Skelly and Loy, Inc., recently conducted an environmental survey to assess the bat population in an area near the designated route of the Brookeville Bypass. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports that wildlife biologists were looking for the northern long-eared bat, a threatened species. These biologists also conducted an […]

Having a place to park your bike is important when traveling around the region. The city of Rockville has launched a new Bike Rack Grant Program to make biking more convenient. Find out more in this report: Visit our PEG partner Rockville11 to view more of its programming.

Police are reminding drivers to “respect the bus.”  Over 1,950 violations were written in the first 18 months of the county’s automated school bus camera program.  Captain Tom Didone says the Montgomery County Police Department will have extra police officers on patrol this week for the start of the school year.  

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh unveiled new guidance designed to end racial profiling by police in Maryland this month and by his side was County Executive Ike Leggett. Take a look: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

The first day of school is exciting for both students and teachers. Did you know that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is welcoming over 600 new educators to the district this year? Find out how these new teachers have been preparing for the first day of school and the new school year in this MCPS-TV […]

Montgomery County government will observe the Labor Day holiday on Monday, Sept. 7. So what’s open and what’s not? Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

After receiving a $50 million Department of Labor grant, Montgomery College is leading the consortium of 14 Maryland community colleges in the cyber technologies’ pathways across Maryland initiative. MCTV’s Michael Brown reports. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke hosts the latest episode of County Report This Week, which includes reports on the Silver Spring Transit Center, a preview of Restaurant Week in Silver Spring, back to school preps and more. You can watch the show, below:

The Silver Spring Transit Center is scheduled to open on Sept. 20 and that’s welcome news for commuters. Lorna Virgili reports. The long-awaited, multi-modal transit center is located at 8400 Colesville Road. It’s features include: –32 bus bays; –direct access to Metrorail and MARC trains; –22 Kiss and Ride spaces; –electronic real-time bus arrival and […]