The City of Takoma Park is asking citizens to take a survey to indicate their preference for the exterior design of a renovated and reconstructed library, officials announced. The survey provides a review of three designs submitted to the City Council in February by RRMM Lukmire Architects. The presentation included a project cost estimate of more than $8 million for each design.
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Listen and engage with New York Times columnist and Bethesda resident, Thomas Friedman about our...
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The county’s parks and library branches this week will begin lifting some restrictions imposed as part of the COVID-19 lockdown and offering certain services and amenities. Beginning today (June 29), Montgomery Parks will be reopening playgrounds to patrons under certain guidelines, and library book drops will open for returns (with some exceptions).
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This Friday will be the last day that patrons can request a hold on books to be picked up at the Long Branch Library as staff prepares to shut the building for a refurbishment project. The library, located at 8800 Garland Ave. will close for six to nine months.
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Saturday is your chance to meet a young kangaroo or wallaby at the Silver Spring Library. There’s also a record fair and later that day, a comedy show at Silver Branch Brewing Co. Presentations on microplastics in the Chesapeake and synthetic turf will be offered on Tuesday, while on Wednesday, the Long Branch Library hosts a talk on the local Underground Railroad.
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The county’s library system is looking for acts to enter the “Make Music Montgomery” contest that will take place during the Just for the Record—A Vinyl Day event on Saturday, April 18 at the Silver Spring Library. Acts can audition live or submit a recording. Each entry must include a live musical performance, though elements such as dance can be included.
Read More Fans of vinyl records can celebrate that music medium and all that surrounds the culture of LPs...
Read More Friday, April 26 DC Blues Society’s 4th Friday Happy Hour, Cissel-Saxon American Legion Post 41,...
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The county has set its schedule of closings and other changes due to the Martin Luther King Jr....
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Montgomery County is setting up “Countywide Citizenship Corners” in libraries and other area...
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Illustration from Public Domain Pictures. The county has announced its holiday schedule for Labor...
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Photo from Wikimedia Commons UPDATE: The post office move into the Silver Spring Library has been...
Read More Photo from Wikimedia Commons The U.S. Post Office in Spring Center on 16th Street will open in its...
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Memorial Day is Monday, May 28. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Memorial Day schedules for Montgomery...
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