Group Raising Funds to Continue Legal Fight Against Purple Line
Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail is circulating an email in an attempt to raise funds for legal fees to continue its opposition to the Purple Line construction.
2017 Reader Survey
We’re nearing the end of 2017, and Source of the Spring is 1 Year Old, which means it’s time for our Annual Reader Survey.
8407 to close, new restaurant group to take over
8407 Kitchen Bar on Ramsey Avenue will close in two weeks, according to information provided by two sources.
Proposal Would Replace Library With Senior Independent Living Facility (Part 2 of 2)
The former Silver Spring Library on Colesville Road would be torn down and replaced with a four-story senior independent living facility, with a child care component, under a plan proposed by the second of two finalists selected in a Request for Proposals process.
Library System to Offer Food for Fines Program
Have overdue library books? Reduce those fines by doing a good deed.
Nonprofits Groups Joining Forces for Casseroles for a Cause
Five local nonprofit groups are teaming up this week to fill freezers with freshly cooked food for hungry and food-insecure populations in a project called Casseroles for a Cause.
Second Medical Marijuana Dispensary Planned Near Transit Center
Silver Spring will get a second medical marijuana dispensary when HerbaFi Wellness opens at 8413 Ramsey Ave. across from the transit center.
Spring Center Businesses Closing for Purple Line; Post Office, Others Stay Open for Now
Spring Center businesses in the 8600 block of 16th Street are shutting down, anticipating the center’s demolition for Purple Line construction that eventually will result in the Woodside station at that location.
Documentary explores history of Silver Spring
Anyone who hasn’t heard the story of how Silver Spring got its name can learn that and much more about local history Sunday at a free screening of “Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb.”