Montgomery Community Media

The Sherwood Warriors girls team and the Gonzaga Eagles boys team swam away with championships at the Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend in Germantown. Congratulations to @WarriorResults swim & dive for capturing the girls’ team championship at Metros! #mcpsproud — Jeff Sullivan (@MCPSAthletics) February 7, 2016 The @WarriorResults girls and @GonzagaSwimDive boys are […]

Local leaders, including County Executive Ike Leggett, are remembering Scotland native and community activist Bette Carol Thompson, who passed away on Feb. 3rd at the age of 80. Watch this MyMCMedia Extra video:   @CoUnTy_ExEc Honors #BetteThompson with a moment of silence at #SOBM16 event in Silver Spring @mymcmedia pic.twitter.com/zn0oDIKpPi — Willie James Inman (@imwilljames) […]

Maryland’s 8th Congressional District race has a new candidate, David Trone, co-founder of Total Wine & More, Trone announced his candidacy this past week. And on Wednesday, Trone announced that he is naming Andrew Friedson as a senior adviser to his campaign. According to a news release, Friedson is a longtime aide to Comptroller Peter Franchot and […]

Good Counsel head varsity football coach Bob Milloy is going to be inducted into the Washington, D.C. Sports Hall of Fame this summer. According to the Good Counsel website, Milloy is in his 45th year of coaching with a record of 382-112-1 as a varsity head coach. He has also coached at Sherwood, Springbrook and […]

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal met with reporters on Nov. 16 for his weekly briefing and he was joined by Council Vice President Nancy Floreen. Leventhal began the briefing with a report about his recent trip to El Salvador. He also previewed tomorrow’s scheduled Council discussion about the cost drivers of government. But it […]

Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal held his weekly briefing with reporters on Sept. 28th and discussed a variety of topics including the Pope’s recent visit, the pesticide bill, an upcoming trip to El Salvador, early voting centers, police body-worn cameras, a new place for the homeless and more. You can watch the briefing in […]

The Montgomery County Historical Society has offered to manage the digital archives of the now-defunct Gazette newspapers. Matt Logan, executive director of the Montgomery County Historical Society, said he has called officials at The Gazette to offer the society as a landing spot for the digital documents of the newspaper that published its last edition June 17. […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal shares his reaction about the news that the Gazette newspaper is closing. Shutting down The Gazette is a gigantic abandonment by The Washington Post Company of its responsibilities to the… Posted by George Leventhal on Friday, June 12, 2015

No one can replace the Gazette. With the sudden announcement that the Montgomery County’s newspaper of record will print its last edition this week, there has been an understandable amount of shock and loss. The skilled staff of nearly 70 individuals (greatly downsized over the years of nearly-constant cutbacks) is the biggest loss of all. […]

The Washington Post Community Media is shutting down the Montgomery County Gazette and the community and staff of the newspaper took to social media to give their thoughts. Gazette staff told that next week’s editions are our last. Lot of great people lost their jobs today. pic.twitter.com/AnIZnMcMzR — Ken Sain (@GazSptsEd) June 12, 2015 Thank […]