Montgomery Community Media

Gov. Larry Hogan issued a statement announcing that a case of the B.1.351 variant of COVID-19, originally detected in South Africa, has been found in Maryland. Maryland Department of Health  confirmed the case in consultation with the CDC. Two cases of the variant were first detected in the United States in South Carolina on Jan. […]

A Naturalization Ceremony was held on June 1 at the Gaithersburg Library where 34 new citizens were welcomed from 27 different countries. Representatives from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officiated the ceremony. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. Countries represented, included: Albania, Algeria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, […]

President Barack Obama delivered a statement on Dec. 5 about the death of former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, calling him “a man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.” “We will not likely see the likes of Nelson Mandela again,” President Obama […]