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Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin, who represents District 5 that includes the eastern part of the county from Howard County to the District of Columbia, and Gabe Albornoz, director of the Montgomery County Recreation Department, are partnering with IMPACT Silver Spring and Pyramid Atlantic to host the third annual Audacity of Hoops Silver Spring 3-on-3 […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin, left, was one of four honorees on Oct. 17 when the Center for Nonprofit Advancement presented its annual Phyllis Campbell Newsome Public Policy Leadership Awards at the Center’s 34th Annual Celebration at the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C. The award honors the Center’s former director of advocacy and community relations. […]

Leaders from Montgomery County, Prince George’s County and the District of Columbia  showed their united stand to create a regional minimum wage of $11.50 per hour. The elected officials, who emphasized their collaboration at an event at the Metropolitan Washington  Council of Governments in Northeast D.C., are backing similar bills in their respective jurisdictions. Councilmember […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin was presented with the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s Phyllis Campbell Newsome Public Policy Leadership Award at the Center’s 34th Annual Celebration on Oct. 17. Councilmember Ervin, in her second term on the Montgomery County Council, will join 2013 honorees Sharon Bulova, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors; Prince […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy (GO) Committee will hold a worksession on the proposed list of early voting sites in Montgomery County at 1 p.m. on Oct. 14. The Maryland General Assembly, in its 2013 session, approved increasing the number of early voting sites in the County from five to eight […]

The Corporate Volunteer Council of Montgomery County recently held its partnerships meeting at MCM’s studios. The discussion was entitled, ” A Cycle of Service.” Take a look: For more info about the CVC-MC, visit its website at https://cvc-mc.org./

Rex Smith, president and CEO of Hearts and Homes for Youth (HHY), talks about how the organization over the past 50 years has helped shelter and counsel more than 30,000 abused, neglected, homeless and troubled children, from newborns to 21 years of age, through a variety of residential and supportive programs. The organization, which began […]

The Montgomery County Council on Oct. 1 continued its efforts to prevent bullying—both in schools and in the workplace—when it recognized Bullying Prevention Month. Councilmember Valerie Ervin (second from left) was among those who spoke about increasing awareness about the lifelong impacts of bullying. Also at the ceremonies in Rockville were, left to right: James […]

Montgomery County Councilmembers Roger Berliner and Valerie Ervin wrote a letter to Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett on Sept. 30 concerning a settlement that the Executive reached with Columbia Country Club on the alignment of the future Purple Line. You can read the letter below:

Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia will be among the leaders addressing the Richmond City Council at its fall retreat on the University of Richmond campus on Sept. 30. Councilmember Ervin will participate in a panel discussion with University of Richmond School of Law Dean John Douglass and former […]