MissHeard Media’s sister company From Here To Home Essentials has released Big and Little Fair Trade Luxury Boxes, collections of products from American-based small businesses, curated for gifting to even the most hard-to-shop-for person. 35% of the proceeds from each box will be donated to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, to support survivors of sexual violence.
“Choop is a cat that likes to be wherever you are. She loves to nap with her human parents, play hide and seek, seize hair ties mid-flight, swat at soap bubbles, jump and bury herself into (boxes, bags, drawers, and the refrigerator…if she can find a way), and seems content with life when a Muddy Waters record is playing. She sneezes when she’s happy, silently meows at birds when she sees them outside, loves to scratch the curtains to let her human parents know it’s time to wake up in the morning, and is overall a really wonderful and highly charactered cat. She is more than a cat though, she is our little heart.”
Purple Line contractors plan to begin two additional utility relocation projects in Silver Spring on Monday, Dec. 21, weather permitting, according to the Maryland Transit Administration. The first involves relocating both underground and overhead utilities along a stretch of 16th Street. The project will start at Lyttonsville Road, just south of Second Avenue, and go to Spring Street.
The Eleanor will be closing its Downtown Silver Spring location for the winter season this Sunday, according to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page.
A Silver Spring mother who, together with her child, were part of a missing persons case earlier this year is now wanted in a criminal case, according to county police. Ashley Spicer, age 35, has been charged with parental abduction of her nine-year-old daughter Israel “Kali” Burk; there is a now a warrant out for Spicer’s arrest.
Ultra Nail Bar will open next spring in the space vacated by Next Day Blinds, according to Laurie Yankowski, regional director, marketing for Peterson Cos. “It will offer an upscale nail spa experience with luxurious manicures and pedicures,” Yankowski said in an email to the Source.
After a year and a half of planning and buildout, downtown Silver Spring coffee shop & roaster Bump ‘n Grind has opened its new roasting facility in Kensington.
County Executive Marc Elrich will open public discussion of a Draft Climate Action Plan released yesterday with a virtual meeting tonight (Dec. 15) at 6 p.m., the Executive Office announced. The plan is described as a “strategic” plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the county by 80% by 2027 and by 100% by 2035.
Downtown Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics has received an FDA designation that helps to expand the company beyond its core business, according to a report from the Washington Business Journal.
“Jake is approximately 12 years old and is a Toy Fox Terrier, American Eskimo Dog, and miscellaneous. He loves cheese, bananas, peaches, and mangoes; going for walks in Long Branch Park; his toy chicken; and barking at foxes. He hates hugs, kisses, and snuggling (unless it will get him something that he wants). We tell him that he is the BDE (Best Dog Ever).”
Local teen empowerment organization MissHeard Media has launched a collection of products from small businesses that will encourage young women to practice self-care.
A Montgomery Blair High School student and his collaborator have been named the winners of his 2020 Congressional App Challenge, U.S Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-District 8) announced. Kevin Xu, a senior at Montgomery Blair High School, and development partner Leon Si, a junior at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute Ontario, created Tabulo, a free education app to assist teachers by allowing them to use a virtual whiteboard.