Illustration from FiveStone Church Thursday, February 15 Virtual town hall meeting with County Executive Ike Leggett, 1-2 p.m. Silver Spring Urban District Advisory Committee meeting, Silver Spring Fire Station (8110 Georgia Ave.), 3rd Floor, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Author Series: Panel Discussion with Angela J. Davis, Editor Of “Policing The Black Man,” Silver Spring Library, 900 Wayne Ave., 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, February … Read More
“We want our children to be happy, yes. But more importantly, we want them to be kind. In many situations, we ask our kids, “What is the most important thing?” And they know the answer is “to be kind.” We want them to face the world with a kind heart.”
The Classics restaurant at 8606 Colesville Rd. will close at the end of February after about 4½ years of operation.
Fair Day’s Play, one of the area’s few independent toy stores, will move from its 10-year home at 7050 Carroll Ave. into the street-facing portion of Takoma Framers at 7312 Carroll Ave.
A Spring Street property that once housed United Therapeutics’ IT group will become the company’s newest manufacturing facility later this year.
A local thrift shop will mark 65 years in Silver Spring with a series of events next week.
Snowmageddon 2010 was a proverbial blessing in disguise for the founders of Cupid’s Undie Run.
Illustration from FiveStone Church Wednesday, February 7 Join the Resistance February general meeting, Montgomery Blair High School cafeteria, 51 University Blvd. E., 7-9 p.m. Thursday, February 8 Silver Spring Transportation Management District meeting, Discovery Communications, 8-10 a.m. RSVP required Black History and Heritage, Silver Spring Library, 900 Wayne Ave., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Carpe Diem! Second Thursday Contra Dance, Silver Spring Civic … Read More
It was a mild 61 degrees and a little before 8 p.m., April 17, 1917, when members of the Columbia Historical Society began to stream into the Gold Room of the Shoreham Hotel at the corner of 15th and H St., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to speak that evening was Maj. Gist Blair, whose talk was titled “Silver Spring.” Blair was the grandson of Silver Spring’s founder, Francis Preston Blair, Sr., advisor to U.S. presidents from Andrew Jackson to Ulysses S. Grant, and son of Montgomery Blair, United States Postmaster General during the first term of President Abraham Lincoln.