Libraries Join State Project to Record, Archive Pandemic Stories
The county’s library system is joining a state effort to record and archive residents’ stories about their lives and how they have been affected by the pandemic.
The county’s library system is joining a state effort to record and archive residents’ stories about their lives and how they have been affected by the pandemic.
Montgomery County Police say that an 18-year-old male is in custody following a January 19 armed carjacking at the Summit Hills Apartments in Silver Spring, and another suspect is in custody in Prince George’s County on additional charges.
A 31-year-old Germantown man, already in custody for a string of bank robberies in Montgomery County, now has additional charges after fighting with county officers in a bathroom Tuesday evening at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron last week announced the unsealing of a federal complaint charging six men, including two from Silver Spring, for a drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed cocaine and other drugs in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, as well as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Two new restaurants — Valenciana Wine Garden and Guavaberry Dominican Restaurant — will be opening in recently-vacated locations in downtown Silver Spring.
Downtown Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics has reached two historic achievements in its xenotransplantation programs, the company announced.
The county has launched the region’s first Electric Vehicle Purchasing Cooperative, a pilot program to encourage residents and businesses to buy EVs, as well as help the county reach its goal of an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2027 and a 100 percent reduction by 2035.
Detectives from the county’s Special Victims Investigations Division (SVID) have released a sketch of a male suspect in a Silver Spring residential burglary and are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying him.
Montgomery County Police say they have arrested and charged 23-year-old Ahyende Harold Gray with the January 14 robbery at the Capital One Bank in downtown Silver Spring.