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Prompted by a year of protests against police shootings and studies into ways to change policing in the county, Police Chief Marcus Jones, Sheriff Darren Popkin and Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s John McCarthy plan to promote community building and partnerships by attending cookouts and block parties Tuesday as part of National Night Out. The idea […]

MCPS and the NAACP Parents’ Council hosts a virtual college conversation on Thursday, Aug. 5 from 6-8 p.m. This event aims to connect rising high school seniors of color to top colleges. The virtual conversation recognizes the unique challenges students of color face during the college admissions process. Attendees will have exposure to more selective […]

Tom DeGonia, former president of the Montgomery County Bar Association, joins lawyer Bernice Mireku-North and prosecutor Perry Paylor in an attempt to become Montgomery County State’s Attorney. All three are running in the Democratic primary, which will be held June 28, 2022. DeGonia of Olney is a partner at the law firm of Ethridge, Quinn, […]

En el episodio #43 de Hola Montgomery El Podcast, René Pedraza del Prado, hijo de la reconocida poeta cubana Pura del Prado, y residente del condado de Montgomery, abre su corazón sobre la situación política actual en Cuba, revive el legado de su madre, declama algunos de sus poemas, y cuenta cómo con uno de […]

Today is Monday, Aug. 2, and here are five things to know in Montgomery County. 1. Tokyo Olympics – Day 11:  It is Day 11 of the Tokyo Olympics, and MyMCM continues to offer coverage of all the athletes from Montgomery County who are competing for Team USA and other countries. Friday, Katie Ledecky won gold in her final swim […]

Montgomery County is well represented at the Tokyo Olympics by the likes of swimmers Katie Ledecky, wrestler Kyle Snyder and others. Beyond the playing fields, one of the people covering those athletes, NBC4 reporter Eun Yang, also hails from MoCo. Yang was born in Seoul, South Korea then moved to and grew up in the Washington, […]

Thea LaFond waited five years for an opportunity to return to the Olympics and find redemption on track and field’s biggest stage. The Kennedy High graduate and teacher, who resides in Silver Spring, qualified for the Tokyo Games, competing for her native Dominica, a small Caribbean island. LaFond carried the Dominica flag in the Opening […]

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart graduates from the Classes of 2015 and 2020 gathered in Potomac for a watch party Friday night to cheer on their former classmates Katie Ledecky and Phoebe Bacon who were swimming for Team USA in Tokyo. They sang and celebrated as Ledecky finished her last event at these […]

One of the greatest swimmers in Olympic history added to her legend in her final swim at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Katie Ledecky, the Bethesda native and Stone Ridge School graduate, will be bringing yet one more gold medal back home with her. Ledecky led from start to finish in the women’s 800-meter freestyle and […]

Three-time Olympian and Silver Spring native Dominique Dawes will be honored with a sculpture in her likeness. This was announced Friday. Montgomery County Council Vice President Gabe Albornoz announced during a virtual press conference that the sculpture will be located at the future Silver Spring Recreation and Aquatic Center, which will also house the Montgomery […]