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High winds taking down trees, wires around the area

Mike Diegel | Aug 28, 2020Mar 2, 2018 at 5:15 pm | Silver Spring

Today’s continuing high winds are taking down area trees and, in some cases, power lines, causing damage and disrupting traffic.

Dangerous Wind Storm Whips Silver Spring

Source of the Spring Staff | Aug 20, 2024Mar 2, 2018 at 9:59 am | Silver Spring

A high-impact storm is moving through the area through Saturday, leaving downed trees, power lines and numerous cancellations in its wake.

County holds public hearing on Purple Line parking restrictions proposal

Mike Diegel | Aug 27, 2024Mar 1, 2018 at 10:40 am | Montgomery County

County to offer physical parking permits to residents

If approved, signs like this one may appear in neighborhoods near Purple Line stations. Photo by Mike Diegel. The county’s Department of Transportation held a hearing last night on a proposal to create 12 new Residential Permit Parking Areas in East Silver Spring. The permit parking program began in 1974 as a way to help reduce the impact of parking … Read More

County dedicates Silver Spring hall to honor Buffalo Soldiers

Mike Diegel | Dec 10, 2024Feb 28, 2018 at 1:30 pm | Montgomery County

County Executive Ike Leggett speaks in front of the Buffalo Soldiers flag. Photo by Mike Diegel. A number of county officials, led by County Executive Ike Leggett (D) and Council President Hans Riemer (D-At Large), last night dedicated The Buffalo Soldiers Great Hall in the Silver Spring Civic Building. The hall recognizes the Buffalo Soldiers, a segregated unit of African-Americans … Read More

Upcoming Events, Feb. 28-March 8

Mike Diegel | Aug 27, 2020Feb 28, 2018 at 9:20 am | Silver Spring

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

In Search of the Lost Souls of “Silver Spring:” Coachman William Henry Lemon (ca. 1806/16 -1893)

Jerry McCoy | Apr 5, 2023Feb 27, 2018 at 10:30 am | Silver Spring

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.”