Montgomery Community Media

Downtown Bethesda is taking advantage of the warm weather and is opening a “streetery” which will create added outdoor seating for restaurants. The “Streetery” will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily starting on Wednesday, June 10th, and will cause temporary street closures. “Bethesda Streetery not only gives the community a safe dining […]

El Departamento de Policía del Condado de Montgomery tuiteó el jueves que está investigando un video que circula en Twitter, que muestra una confrontación entre un hombre y una mujer que ocurrió en el centro de Bethesda. En el video, el hombre utiliza una retórica racista hacia la mujer. La policía tuiteó: “MCPD está al […]

Montgomery County Police Department tweeted Thursday that it’s investigating a video circulating on Twitter, showing a confrontation between a man and woman that occurred Wednesday in downtown Bethesda. In the video, the man uses racist rhetoric toward the woman. Police tweeted, “The MCPD is aware of the video circulating on social media of a ‘road […]

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich did not include any funding in his capital budget proposal for the Capital Crescent Trail Tunnel, which was supposed to be included in the Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) design.  The tunnel was proposed for pedestrians and cyclists to get across Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda safely and have access to the […]

A pane of glass fell from an upper-level apartment balcony above Harris Teeter on Woodmont Avenue and Battery Lane in Bethesda, injuring a child. According to Pete Piringer, the spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services, the incident happened around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. ICYMI – Woodmont Av & Battery Lane, Bethesda, for unknown reason […]

Rockville district police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man wanted in connection with a burglary in a Bethesda office. Police say the burglary happened on May 24 at the Penney Designed Group office, which is located on Woodmont Avenue. Officers responded to the Penney Designed Group’s report about the incident on […]

The Montgomery County Planning Board takes up approvals for the new Marriott International project in downtown Bethesda next week. The 2.25-acre site is at Wisconsin and Norfolk avenues. It also faces Woodmont Avenue to the west. Marriott International now has its headquarters in Bethesda on Fernwood Road. In October 2016, the company announced it was […]

Over the next five weekends, Montgomery County’s Department of Transportation will close lanes on Rockville Pike between Woodmont Avenue and Wilson Drive, near the Medical Center Metro Station, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Naval Support Activity Bethesda. The lanes will close at 10 p.m. Friday […]

Online court records say former Redskin Clinton Portis failed to appear in District Court on Tuesday for a charge of driving without a current license tags. Stopped at Old Georgetown Road and Woodmont Avenue in Bethesda, Portis faced at $70 fine, the records say. The incident occurred at 9:12 p.m. Jan. 3.   District Court […]

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) Division of Parking will begin charging for parking in the 960-space Capital Crescent Garage beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, March 2. The garage is at the intersection of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues. Parking has been free since the garage opened on January 20 to give parkers time […]