If approved, signs like this one may appear in neighborhoods near Purple Line stations. Photo by Mike Diegel. The county’s Department of Transportation held a hearing last night on a proposal to create 12 new Residential Permit Parking Areas in East Silver Spring. The permit parking program began in 1974 as a way to help reduce the impact of parking … Read More
County Executive Ike Leggett speaks in front of the Buffalo Soldiers flag. Photo by Mike Diegel. A number of county officials, led by County Executive Ike Leggett (D) and Council President Hans Riemer (D-At Large), last night dedicated The Buffalo Soldiers Great Hall in the Silver Spring Civic Building. The hall recognizes the Buffalo Soldiers, a segregated unit of African-Americans … Read More
Illustration from FiveStone Church Wednesday, February 28 Third Session of Winter Speaker Series: Place Making as a Tool of Economic Development, Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning headquarters, 8787 Georgia Ave., 6-7:30 p.m. Hearing, Residential Permit Parking, Purple Line Parking Impact Areas, Silver Spring Civic Building, 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1 Latino Resource Fair, Silver Spring Civic Building, 6:30 p.m. Sundown … Read More
The county has chosen The Martha B. Gudelsky Child Development Center Inc. to redevelop the site of the former Silver Spring Library on Colesville Road, according to a Feb. 23 letter from David Dise, the county director of general services, shared with the Source.
Vegaritos Restaurant, a vegan/vegetarian Mexican restaurant located near the Takoma Metro Station, is for sale, according to an announcement on the Main Street Takoma Facebook page.
All Set Restaurant & Bar will welcome a friend of Edward Reavis, co-owner and chef, next week for a pop-up dinner series and benefit.
The gas station at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road closed last week in preparation for construction of a new Residence Inn.
CREATE Arts Center is leaving its current home on Thayer Avenue and moving a few blocks away to the Atrium Building at 914 Silver Spring Ave.
Students head down Colesville Road for a march on Washginton. Several hundred Montgomery Blair High School students joined others from the area yesterday to march on Washington to demand new gun controls in the aftermath of the high school killings last week in Parkland, Fla. The students began gathering at 9:30 a.m. and walked down Colesville Road accompanied by a … Read More