Library System to Offer Food for Fines Program
Have overdue library books? Reduce those fines by doing a good deed.
Nonprofits Groups Joining Forces for Casseroles for a Cause
Five local nonprofit groups are teaming up this week to fill freezers with freshly cooked food for hungry and food-insecure populations in a project called Casseroles for a Cause.
Second Medical Marijuana Dispensary Planned Near Transit Center
Silver Spring will get a second medical marijuana dispensary when HerbaFi Wellness opens at 8413 Ramsey Ave. across from the transit center.
Spring Center Businesses Closing for Purple Line; Post Office, Others Stay Open for Now
Spring Center businesses in the 8600 block of 16th Street are shutting down, anticipating the center’s demolition for Purple Line construction that eventually will result in the Woodside station at that location.
Documentary explores history of Silver Spring
Anyone who hasn’t heard the story of how Silver Spring got its name can learn that and much more about local history Sunday at a free screening of “Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb.”
Fall means beer festival season
It’s fall, which means it’s beer festival season, and there are two local ones coming up.
Manna Food Center Demonstrates New Mobile Kitchen
“Manny,” a mobile kitchen from Manna Food Center, made its first appearance in Silver Spring over the weekend.
Departments, groups create downtown pop-ups for PARK(ing) Day
Several county departments and other organizations created pop-up spaces along Fenton Street and Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring Friday to mark International PARK(ing) Day.
Community Kitchen to Give Small Entrepreneurs a Boost
The Takoma Park Silver Spring Community Kitchen will hold its grand opening this weekend, bringing a new production facility to local, small-scale food entrepreneurs.