The county is planning to build a recreation and aquatic center in downtown Silver Spring. Photo of the Olney Swim Center from Wikimedia Commons. Several Silver Spring projects are included in the FY2018 capital budget and amendments to the six-year FY2017-2022 Capital Improvements Program released this week by County Executive Isiah Leggett. Highlighting the budget release is $55.3 million to … Read More
Illustration from FiveStone Church Wednesday, Jan. 18 “What Kind of World Do We Want?” conversation with David Grinspoon, author, Earth in Human Hands, Silver Spring Library, 900 Wayne Ave. 3rd Floor, 7-8:30 p.m. Safe Silver Spring Annual Legislative Forum, Great Hall, Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 Veteran’s Plaza, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 Montgomery Planning Board Meeting, 8787 Georgia Ave., … Read More
Illustration from the Montgomery County website. Silver Spring and Takoma Park residents now can get discounts on a variety of dental and health services through the county’s participation in the National Association of Counties’ Live Healthy program. The program expands on a free prescription discount program the county has offered in conjunction with NACo since 2004. Live Healthy is open … Read More
The Silver Spring Civic Building and other county offices will be open Inauguration Day. Photo from Christopher Consultants Ltd. Unlike at least two other jurisdictions in the area and the federal government, Montgomery County’s government offices will be open on Inauguration Day Jan. 20. The county schools and the school system’s administrative offices will be closed, however. The county’s park … Read More
A host of characters are expected to take over the Silver Spring Library Jan. 21 when the county’s library system hosts its first comic convention, MoComCon.
Illustration from FiveStone Church Wednesday, Jan. 11 The ABCs of Staying Safe Online and on the Telephone, Fenton Room, Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 Veteran’s Plaza, 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12 Silver Spring Transportation Management District Advisory Committee meeting, Discovery Communications, 1 Discovery Place, 8 a.m., RSVP required “Post Memory: Photographs of a Certain Place and Time” Opening Reception, Betty … Read More
Jheanelle Wilkins, a member of the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee, was chosen by that group on the third ballot last night as the nominee to fill the vacant delegate seat in District 20.
Councilmember Hans Riemer (D-At-Large) of Takoma Park has been appointed to the Intergovernmental Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission by Chairman Tom Wheeler.
With little to differentiate each other in terms of policy, candidates for state delegate focused on their priorities, background and experience to try to stand out before a standing-room-only crowd attending a forum Thursday night at the Silver Spring Civic Building.