As promised, County Executive Marc Elrich yesterday vetoed a bill that would establish a business improvement district in Silver Spring. In response, seven County Council members vowed to override the veto when the council returned in September.
Detectives from the county’s 3rd District Investigative Section are looking to the public for help identifying a suspect in a July 4th armed robbery aboard a Ride On bus in Silver Spring.
Quarry House Tavern has joined the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s Summer Restaurant Week, according to a post to the tavern’s Instagram account.
The City of Takoma Park has begun the installation of sidewalks featuring poetry from local residents, as part of an interactive public art project organized by the City’s Arts and Humanities Division. The poems were chosen in a contest held earlier this year, with the winners receiving a $100 award in addition to their poetry stamped in sidewalks around Takoma Park.
Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring is hosting the Ivorian Economic Cultural Festival today (Sunday, August 8). The festival, which kicked off at 9 a.m., will run until 10 p.m., featuring music and entertainment, arts and crafts, food vendors, and more.
Downtown Silver Spring has been named #7 on Chain Store Age magazine’s list of Top 10 Retail Experiences of 2021. “Can a retail center be so successful at reinvigorating a town that, 20 years after it first opened, it has to remake itself to catch up with what it accomplished?”
All Set Restaurant & Bar, Matchbox and Tacos, Tortillas & Tequila in downtown Silver Spring are set to participate in the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s Summer Restaurant Week, which runs from August 9-15.
The owners of A Few Cool Hardware Stores are selling the company to their employees, allowing them to own the company through an Employee Stock Ownership Program. Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman operate Silver Spring Ace Hardware at 815 Wayne Ave. and Old Takoma Ace Hardware at 7001 Carroll Ave. in Takoma Park.
The Eleanor in Downtown Silver Spring will be celebrating National Oyster Day tomorrow (Thursday, August 5) with $1 oysters all day, according to a post to the restaurant’s Instagram account.