Five Things You Need to Know Today, April 8

Here are the five things you need to know today, April 8, in Montgomery County:

1.The Montgomery County Council will receive an update on the Silver Spring Transit Center today and the Council will hold a public hearing on the County Executive’s recommended operating budget tonight.

2. Montgomery Al Dia celebrates its 100th radio show. Congratulations to the show’s host, Lorna Virgili!

3. The county will hold a forum on the challenges facing Muslim women today.

4. Montgomery College will remember the Holocaust tonight.

5. You can learn to garden in Gaithersburg tonight. Speaking of Gaithersburg, the city has been named one of the top suburbs for retirement by Forbes this week.

Save the date: two weeks from today, on April 22, we celebrate a “Day in the Life of Montgomery County.”

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Sonya Burke is the Multimedia Manager at Montgomery Community Media (MCM). You can email story ideas at sburke@mymcmedia.org or reach her on Twitter @SonyaNBurke.

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