Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School won a Student Production Award from the Capital Emmys for its Social Distance Television program. Recipients include Aidan O’Connor, Editor; Devin Handy, Anchor/Writer; Elena Pitman, Anchor/Writer; Griffin Boswell, Editor; Nicholas O’Connor, Editor; Kelsea Petersen, Graphics/Animation; Laila Nickelson, Anchor/Writer; Lola Nordlinger, Anchor/Writer and Matt Compton, Editor. David Lopilato, a teacher at B-CC […]

Montgomery County Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) officials are preparing for COVID-19 vaccine pediatric expansion eligibility for children under 12, and they have strategies in place. Federal health officials say shots could be authorized for kids ages 5-11 by November, as they review safety data from Pfizer. In Montgomery County, this age group […]

Montgomery County Police are searching for a man they say stole mail from a U.S. Postal Service mailbox, and they released surveillance video of the crime. Detectives say it happened on Sept. 5 shortly before 4:00 a.m. in Kensington on the 10400 block of Montgomery Avenue. An investigation revealed that the suspect walked to the exterior […]

Durante su reunión semanal con la prensa, el vicepresidente del concejo del condado de Montgomery, Gabe Albornoz, anunció que aún hay más de $14 millones de dólares, en fondos federales disponibles, para ayudar a los residentes del condado que han tenido dificultades para pagar el alquiler de sus viviendas, debido a la pandemia Covid-19. “Pueden […]

Carrie Fox joins Kelly Leonard for MyMCM’s September episode of Small Business Network.  The series of monthly sessions facilitated by Kelly Leonard addresses topics of interest to small business owners in Montgomery County. This is a virtual event. The presentation and discussion take place on Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 9 a.m. and was streamed live. Registration […]

Local leaders are working to strengthen trust between the community and police through newly introduced legislation. Bill 45-20 Police-Community Policing-Data, would require the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) to provide data on police interactions with residents, including stops, searches, citations, and arrests. “We can’t improve our policing, and we can’t improve our public confidence and reduce […]

The Montgomery County community gathered Sunday in Rockville to memorialize two Black men who were lynched in the late 1800s. John Diggs-Dorsey was lynched in 1880 and Sidney Randolph in 1896, according to Montgomery History documents. Diggs-Dorsey was accused of assault in 1880 and was in jail when a white mob took him and lynched […]

To help mitigate transmission and minimize student quarantines, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) will use random COVID-19 screening tests and rapid testing across all grades. However, school district officials say testing requires parent permission. MCPS Communications Specialist Melissa Rivera Pabón asks parents to “Say Yes to the Test”: In case you missed it, this community […]

Tras los resultados del Censo 2020, y como lo indica la Constitución del Condado de Montgomery, cada diez años se analiza el crecimiento de la población, y con éste se trazan los límites de los distritos. Después de la última distribución de los distritos en 2011, donde se trazaron cinco distritos municipales, ahora el condado […]

Casey Aiken hosts the latest episode of 21 This Week. On this week’s show, Aiken and the panel discuss: After more than a year of virtual learning, MCPS students show a decline in math literacy. Lawyers representing the public schools in the 2018 Damascus locker room assault case argue that the incident was not sexual […]