Montgomery Community Media

The county is looking into COVID-19 safety enforcement measures for businesses to ensure that they are racially equitable. All businesses, as a condition of reopening, are required to abide by general operating guidelines. Violations can result in citations or closure. During a virtual media briefing on Thursday, Office of Emergency Management Director Dr. Earl Stoddard mentioned […]

Watch a video preview of the next episode of 21 This Week, below: 21 This Week airs on Montgomery Channel 21 on Sundays at 11 a.m. and again at 7 p.m.; Mondays at noon and again at 8 p.m.; Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.

According to county contact tracing data, indoor, outdoor, and family gatherings continue to have high levels of COVID-19 transmission. Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich says COVID-19 testing is important in getting a handle on the virus’s transmission. Although the testing numbers continue to be strong, Elrich says the more people who do it, the better. “Our […]

Sherwood High School has officially renamed its gymnasium after the late Warren Crutchfield. Crutchfield, who was 83 when he died in July 2019, was influential to many in the Sherwood community. For 33 years, he worked at Sherwood as a basketball coach and physical education teacher. His influence was so profound that in November 2019, […]

An uptick in COVID-19 cases locally, nationally and around the world has caused County officials to give pause about lifting some restrictions that are still in effect. During his weekly virtual media briefing on Thursday, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich mentioned the possibility of a second surge of COVID-19 cases as we enter colder months. […]

Curtis Pride was a dominant athlete at Kennedy High School in the 1980’s in not one, not two but three sports. He was all-county and all-state in baseball, basketball and soccer. Pride was also all-America in soccer. And somehow, he found the time to maintain a 3.6 GPA. This Sunday, Pride, 51, will be inducted […]

Hasta el martes, se han recibido más de 379,000 solicitudes para votar por correo, según la Junta Electoral del Condado de Montgomery. El proceso de escrutinio continuará hasta que todas las papeletas de votación se abran y se escaneen para su recuento. Los votantes pueden ver en línea el estado de su solicitud de papeleta […]

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Gov. Larry Hogan announced that $11.7 million in general funds will go towards providing legal services to families facing eviction and homelessness. The funds will be directed to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation (MLSC), which makes grants to nonprofit organizations that provide legal services for low-income Marylanders. Since 1982, […]

Montgomery County Department of Transportation officially debuted its Flash bus rapid transit system Wednesday, the first of its kind in the state of Maryland. MCDOT’s Flash buses operate on U.S. Route 29 from Burtonsville to Silver Spring. Buses arrive at stations every 7.5 minutes during rush hour. There’s 80 seat capacity aboard the 62 feet […]

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is responding to President Donald Trump, who has been raising concerns about voter intimidation in the upcoming 2020 General Election. “Voter intimidation, voter harassment is a crime. It’s a crime under state law, it’s a crime under federal law,” Frosh told MyMCMedia. “If people are intending in Maryland to come […]