Montgomery Community Media

Walter Johnson and Churchill; North Bethesda and Potomac; steak and potatoes; liver and onions; they all go together. Rivals or not these two schools are peas in the same pod. Style and substance on the court was in fashion as the score ping ponged back and forth all night. Neither team garnered much of a […]

The Montgomery County Planning Department and Montgomery Parks have announced a meeting to discuss the Rock Spring Master Plan on Thursday, January 28. At the meeting, staff from Montgomery Parks will present information on planned amenities, open spaces and roles for County agencies and developers. Planning Department staff will also conduct a discussion during the […]

At a White House ceremony today, President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Captain Flo Groberg, a former Walter Johnson High School graduate. You can watch the ceremony, below: ORIGINAL POST Captain Florent Groberg, a 2001 Walter Johnson High School graduate, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award, […]

UPDATED Montgomery County is hosting an open house on Monday, October 19th so community residents can learn more about the White Flint Transportation Management Study. The event will be held from 7 -9 p.m.in the Walter Johnson High School cafeteria, 6400 Rock Spring Drive in Bethesda. Department of Transportation (MCDOT) Acting Director Al Roshdieh is […]

A new school year is about to begin in less than two weeks but not without Newsweek‘s annual list of the top public high schools in America for 2015. Five Montgomery County public schools made the list. Among them are: No. 110 Poolesville High School in Poolesville; No. 187 Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda; […]

The Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (MCCPTA) hosted a news conference on May 4 at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda to ask Governor Larry Hogan to “do the right thing.” Educators want Hogan to fully fund public schools all across the state of Maryland. Although the Maryland General Assembly adjourned on April 13, […]

Seven Montgomery County Public Schools seniors from five high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships, MCPS announced Wednesday. These scholarships, which range from $500 to $10,000, are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. The students are among 17 high school seniors in Maryland and more than 1,000 seniors nationwide to […]

This month, parents, students, and community members attended public forums to share their views on what they wish to see in the next superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

This past weekend after covering an emotional schoolboy hardwood battle between Georgetown Prep and Landon Friday night I picked my cameras back up on Saturday and headed out to Germantown. Weekends such as this are fun for parents and their student athletes.  It all comes to a fine dénouement – for end of season events […]

There has been another case of whooping cough in Montgomery County, this time at Gaithersburg High School. Mary Anderson, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed to MyMCMedia Friday that a student at that school has been confirmed to have pertussis, a highly-contagious respiratory illness. That makes the 16th case of the […]