DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse is preparing to close its Ellsworth Drive location on Jan. 22, as the retailer will move into new space inside Ellsworth Place at 8661 Colesville Rd. in downtown Silver Spring.
A staff report prepared for a County Council briefing scheduled for today (Jan. 18) shows a significant increase in homicides, carjackings and firearm-related violent crime in the county in 2021 compared to 2020. While the report notes that total violent crime decreased almost 13% in 2020 compared to 2019—largely due to COVID-related shutdowns—carjackings were up that year almost 90% and homicides increased 21%.
Montgomery County Police say a 70-year-old Adelphi man was struck and killed by a motorist Monday evening in the Hillandale neighborhood of Silver Spring.
Residents who use rapid at-home COVID–19 tests can now report the results via a new county portal, officials announced. The self-reporting portal is available in English and six other languages, including Spanish, Vietnamese, French, Korean, Chinese and Amharic.
Metro will not resume the reinstatement of its 7000-series trains into service for at least 90 days, the agency announced last week.
Two Silver Spring restaurants will participate in restaurant week sponsored by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, which runs from Jan. 17–23.
Cielo Rojo will relocate to a larger location to accommodate an expansion of the restaurant, according to a report from Washington City Paper.
Montgomery County is distributing COVID-19 testing kits to community organizations to redistribute to the county’s most vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations, officials announced yesterday.
“As a former litigator, Paula Gibson saw the economic and emotional costs of prolonged disputes and recognized that there could be better ways to resolve cases. And after spending too many days and hours at home during the pandemic, Paula realized that it was the right time in her life to start her own business by doing something that was personally rewarding and helpful to others. She decided to open her own mediation practice because she was mediating family law cases in the D.C. Superior Court and wanted to expand on doing that work in Maryland and elsewhere. Her practice, the Gibson Mediation Group, LLC consists primarily of divorce and eldercare cases.” [sponsored]