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Are you on Twitter? Montgomery County’s 3-1-1 customer service center has launched a Twitter account that provides residents with non emergency county government information and residents can request services via Twitter. What this means is that you can now Tweet MC-3-1-1 with a question or a request for service and you will receive a response. […]

Montgomery County’s 311 Customer Service Center has launched a new Twitter account that allows residents to get non-emergency County government information and request services via Twitter. Initially, tweets will be monitored Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. What this means is that residents can now tweet MC311 with a question or request for […]

Over 60 Montgomery County firefighters responded to a house fire in the 13600 block of Pine View Lane in North Potomac on April 11. Pete Piringer, the public information officer for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, described efforts to extinguish the blaze as a “firefight” on his Twitter account. Piringer said four occupants escaped […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police are investigating an officer involved shooting in the 7400 block of Lake Katrine Terrace in Gaithersburg. It happened shortly after 8 p.m. on Jan. 29. “There was some type of domestic dispute. The officer observed his son attacking his wife with some type of sharp instrument, observed some type of stabbing […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police and fire rescue units responded to a multi-vehicle accident at Great Seneca Highway and Longdraft Road on New Year’s Day. According to Montgomery County police, the call came in at 4:46 p.m. on Jan. 1 and southbound Great Seneca Highway was closed at Horn Point Drive during the police investigation and […]

Santa visited the children at NIH’s Children’s Inn on the evening of Dec. 18. The Annual Police Santa Ride began in Germantown and made many stops along the way. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk got a chance to catch up with Santa. Take a look.

In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Joshua Starr responds to the motivation behind his open letter to parents about Cybercivility. Starr attended the Committee for Montgomery’s annual legislative breakfast in Bethesda. See Dr. Starr: ‘We Need to Talk about Cybercivility’ to read the letter and learn more.

Superintendent of Schools Joshua P. Starr published an open letter to parents on Dec. 13 about the need for a community-wide dialogue on how we teach our children to be safe and civil online. He wrote the letter in response to several inappropriate comments that were made to him on Twitter this week as he […]

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Over 100 firefighters responded to a three-alarm apartment fire on June 25 in the 19300 block of Club House Road in Montgomery Village and several rescues were made. According to fire officials, the first arriving units encountered heavy fire conditions throughout the building with fire blazing through the roof. More resources were quickly requested. As […]