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This episode of “21 This Week” includes a discussion of the gubernatorial primary election and the continuing controversy over the name of the Washington Redskins. You can watch a preview of today’s show here: “21 This Week” airs on Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Montgomery Channel 21; on Mondays at noon and […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, Bill Lynch, the owner of the Washington Spirit previews the team’s home soccer game this weekend. The Washington Spirit get a chance to redeem themselves this Saturday (June 21) evening against the Portland Thorns. The Spirit were defeated by the Thorns last Sunday 2-0 at the end of a lengthy, four-match […]

Dr. Ahmed Kilani gets about 25 ticks a day. They come to him in plastic baggies, via FedEx trucks and even hand delivered. That’s because his company Clongen Laboratories in Gaithersburg is one of the premier labs in the country that tests, label and catalogs ticks’ DNA for diseases like Lyme. Lately, tick bites in […]

New video of the Bethesda bear that spent a couple of hours up a tree on the campus of NIH on June 19. After being tranquilized in Bethesda by DNR officials, the bear was transported to Potomac and released in the woodlands off River Road in western Montgomery County. You can read more about the […]

A bear took a stroll onto the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda and climbing up a tree near the Medical Center Metro station. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk has the story. He drew quite a crowd as the bear perched from his tree branch at the entrance to NIH on Rockville Pike. “This is very […]

Update: MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk reports the bear came down from the tree in response to the noisemakers and started running. Police with tranquilizer guns went after the bear, chasing it through the NIH campus. Original post: Police and fire rescue crews are on the scene at NIH where a black bear has been spotted in […]

UPDATED Rockville police officers responded to a confirmed sighting of a black bear near downtown Rockville on Thursday morning. Major Michael England said the bear was last seen around 9 a.m. at Great Falls Road and Monument Court. He said a city employee initially spotted the bear earlier this morning. Officials say it is relatively […]

Early voting is underway in Montgomery County and the nine designated early voting locations are popular places for many of the candidates who are stumping for every vote they can get. Still, candidates said getting the word out about the June 24 primary election continues to be a challenge. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. You can […]

The plans for the long-awaited Ovid Hazen Wells Recreational Park are underway and one thing is for sure – it will include a carousel. In this MyMCMedia Extra, County planners seek input from the community on what they’d like to see move into the Clarksburg area. A new 290-acre park is in the plans for […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro, along with Council President Craig Rice and Councilmembers Roger Berliner, Cherri Branson, Marc Elrich, Nancy Floreen and Hans Riemer, plan to introduce a resolution on Tuesday, June 17, declaring the sense of the County Council is that possession of small amounts of marijuana and paraphernalia by adults should be among […]