The Takoma Park Police Department will mark National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 3 at Piney Branch Elementary School, 7510 Maple Ave., according to a community advisory. The event will run from 6–9 p.m. and feature McGruff the Crime Dog along with a display of police vehicles and Maryland National Park Police horses.
Silver Spring photographer Jonna Huseman of Jonna Michelle Photography has been honored by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-District 8) as a Local Hero of the Week for her photo essay series, Life in the Time of Coronavirus: Voices from Silver Spring.
Nips Juice House is holding a soft opening starting today (Saturday, July 31), from 3 to 6 p.m, according to a post to the outlet’s Instagram account. A grand opening is set for Thursday, August 5 at 12 p.m.
Commissioner Natali Fani-González has resigned her position with the county’s Planning Board and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, effective Aug. 31. Earlier this year, Fani-González announced plans to run for County Council representing District 4.
A Massachusetts company, Linchris Hotel Corp., has purchased the Sheraton Silver Spring at 8777 Georgia Ave. and is temporarily operating the hotel under the name of Hotel Silver Spring.
Locavino, the wine café that overlooks Veterans Plaza in Downtown Silver Spring, is the featured business in a new episode of the ‘Made In Montgomery’ series from the County Council and County Cable Montgomery.
The County Council yesterday approved a bill to establish a business improvement district in Silver Spring that would provide marketing and promotions for all the businesses within the current Silver Spring Urban District.
Detectives from the county’s 3rd District Investigative Section are looking to the public for help identifying a suspect in a commercial burglary that happened in the 900 block of Ellsworth Drive.
Chris Van Jura, the owner of the Catalyst Hot Dogs food cart, is featured in an episode of ‘The Indicator from Planet Money,’ NPR’s “little show about big ideas”. The episode, titled “The COVID Small Business Boom,” discusses businesses that were started as a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic.