Montgomery Community Media

American and Caribbean food restaurant on Georgia Avenue is getting ready to celebrate its third anniversary on March 23. The Society Restaurant and Lounge reflects the diversity of downtown Silver Spring, according to owner and former NBA player Jason Miskiri. “… Silver Spring is truly a reflection of Society’s menu and mission of ‘good food, good […]

An Ad Hoc Committee on liquor control looking at issues within the Department of Liquor Control including product delivery and inventory control, is scheduled to talk to bar and restaurant owners and other licensees March 20. The Ad Hoc Committee includes Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer, who serves as its chairman;  Council President George Leventhal, chair of the Council’s […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a bank robbery at the Capital One bank at 11241 Georgia Avenue in Wheaton. According to police, the robbery occurred shortly before 5 p.m. on March 12. No other information has been released to date. Robbery detectives responding to bank robbery at Capital One located at 11241 Georgia Ave. […]

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett announced today that the county has selected Artspace to develop the former Third District Police Station and adjacent land located on Sligo Avenue in Silver Spring into an arts center anchored by affordable live/work housing. The station relocated last May from 801 Sligo Ave. to its new location at 1002 […]

The Montgomery County Board of Appeals on Wednesday denied Costco a special exception to put a 16-pump gas station in Wheaton. The board voted unanimously in favor of adopting an earlier report from Martin L. Grossman, hearing examiner and director for the Office of Zoning and Administrative Hearings. Grossman recommended denial of the special exception […]

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins University has received a $1 million grant from its parent foundation. The award comes from the Bernard Osher Foundation, which is based in San Francisco, Calif. “This generous grant from the Osher Foundation will make it possible for the Osher at JHU program to meet growing community […]

An innovative improvement in processing development approvals was announced on March 10 by County Executive Ike Leggett and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s (WSSC) General Manager and CEO Jerry Johnson. WSSC is opening an office at the Department of Permitting Services (DPS) in Rockville that will make it more convenient and efficient for customers to […]

The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) officially broke ground on the campus’s second parking structure, a $20 million “green” garage to support the USG’s addition of the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Education Facility. The  garage will open in early 2016 and is being funded by Montgomery County, according to a press release about the event. The new […]

Online fashion retailer, HBF Boutique, is launching its first brick-and-mortar store at Downtown Crown in Gaithersburg this week. HBF Boutique is scheduled to celebrate its grand opening with a runway show on March 7. HBF Boutique founders, Mike and Julie McVearry, learned the fashion industry as models and opened HBF Boutique online in 2013, according […]

Harold Varmus, M.D., who has led the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly five years, has announced today that he will step down from his post, effective March 31. “It has been our great fortune to have Harold at the helm of the NCI,” said NIH Director Francis […]