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
Between 1850 and 1860, Francis Preston Blair, Sr. (1791-1876), advisor to U.S. presidents from Andrew Jackson to Ulysses S. Grant, enslaved up to 20 human beings at his Montgomery County home, “Silver Spring.”
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
The U.S. Postal Service has confirmed that the post office located in the Spring Center on 16th St. will move its operations to the Silver Spring Library at 900 Wayne Ave.
Illustration from FiveStone Church Wednesday, February 21 Schweinhaut Song Circle, Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Rd., 1-3 p.m. Book Discussion, “Indignation” by Phillip Roth, Long Branch Library, 8800 Garland Ave., 2 p.m. Carpe Diem-Revels Community Sing, Seekers Church, 276 Carroll St. N.W., $5 donation suggested, 7-8:30 p.m. Flower Avenue Classical House Concert, BannerArts, 7502 Flower Ave, $20, 8 … Read More
Trattoria da Lina, which opened last March at 7000 Carroll Ave., is expanding into space next door that was occupied by the now-closed Dolci Gelati, according to an announcement from Main Street Takoma.
Local events marking FeBREWary, a celebration of craft brewers, begin tonight with the Takoma Tap Takeover from Main Street Takoma.