Historic Takoma will open its public Reading Room starting Sunday, October 17, according to an announcement from Main Street Takoma. The Reading Room on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Historic Takoma is located at 7328 Carroll Ave. in Takoma Park.
IMPACT Silver Spring Executive Director Jayne Park will be stepping down from her role effective December 31, according to an email received by the Source. Ms. Park is leaving the organization to “move forward towards new horizons and opportunities,” according to the announcement.
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation is teaming with taxicab companies operating in the county to provide age 65+ seniors and residents with disabilities free roundtrip transportation to COVID-19 vaccination and testing locations.
The Washington Post’s food reporter/columnist Tim Carman has featured Senegalese restaurant Koité Grill, calling it “standout Senegalese cooking [that] builds on char, smoke, and butchery”.
Investigators from the Takoma Park Police Department are investigating an armed carjacking that occurred Friday, and are asking for the public’s help to identify the suspects.
Detectives from the county’s police department are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a Silver Spring woman who has been missing since Friday afternoon. Mingling Chen, age 78, was last seen leaving the 1500 block of Forest Glen Road on the afternoon of Friday, October 8, and may be in the Rockville area, trying to get into D.C.
Changes to 64 Ride On bus routes will take effect this Sunday, October 10, county officials announced. 25 routes that have higher ridership will see increased trips, and service after midnight will be reinstated for all routes which operated those hours prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DoubleTree by Hilton Silver Spring DC North is now open, according to a joint announcement from DoubleTree by Hilton and new operator Linchris Hotel Corporation. The hotel, located at 8777 Georgia Ave. in downtown Silver Spring, operated temporarily as Hotel Silver Spring after it was acquired by Plymouth, Mass.-based Linchris over the summer.
The county will add new COVID-19 vaccination sites to those it already operates in anticipation of increased demand for booster shots. One of the new sites will be located in the Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 Veterans Plaza, as of Monday, Oct. 11.