The weather forecast for this weekend looks perfect for leaf raking, just in time for the county’s annual leaf collection to begin Monday, Nov. 9. This year, the county has modified the online collection schedule tools so that residents can find their planned collection date (weather permitting) by simply entering their street address.
Since mid-October, Capitol Heights-based Pessoa Construction has been performing utility relocations along Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring and Kenilworth Avenue in Riverdale for the Maryland Purple Line project.
County Executive Marc Elrich has introduced a revised Executive Order 122-20, COVID-19 Local Order that would roll back recent loosening of restrictions designed to lessen the spread of COVID-19. The revisions come in response to a recent spike locally and elsewhere in the number of COVID-19 cases. One of the principal changes reduces the allowed indoor capacity at shops and restaurants from 50% to 25%.
The Takoma Park Police Department is warning residents of the theft of airbags in the area of New Hampshire Avenue.
Incumbent Takoma Park Mayor Kate Stewart and all six current city council members are leading in races to keep their seats, according to preliminary results posted last night. Stewart was leading challenger Roger Schlegel by a vote of 2,912 to 1,561 with 18 write-in votes.
Officers from the Montgomery County Police Department’s 3rd District have charged 55-year-old Wayne Riley, of Washington, D.C., with the attempted second-degree murder of the owner and a customer of a Silver Spring 7-Eleven convenience store, according to an MCPD press release.
Takoma Park Police last night responded to calls of a truck that crashed into Capital One Bank at 1181 University Boulevard in the Takoma-Langley Crossroads neighborhood, triggering multiple reports of news helicopters in the area.
The County Council will add two members in the 2022 election with the passage of Question C, according to unofficial election results posted shortly before 1 a.m. this morning (Nov. 4). The ballot question garnered more than 62% of the vote for the change, while about 37.5% voted against the question.
If you saw or heard helicopters over the area last night, you aren’t alone.