Montgomery Community Media

It’s the end of an era for two retail stores in the Silver Spring area. The Kmart in Aspen Hill and the Sears in White Oak are closing permanently. Both Sears and Kmart are owned by Transformco. The announcement about Kmart was made on the store’s local Facebook page on Jan. 28: “We were gearing […]

The Sears at the Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg is closing in December. It’s among nearly 100 other Sears stores that will be closing by December. This news, first reported by USA Today, comes weeks after the company that owns Sears and Kmart confirmed that 26 other locations will close by October. Larry Costello, the PR […]

A 34-year-old Silver Spring man faces commercial burglary and theft charges after he stayed inside a Sears store past closing and tried to steal $830,000 worth of jewelry, Montgomery County police said in a statement. Daniel E. Grant of the 3400 block of Robey Terrace in Silver Spring is being held in lieu of bail, police said. About 11:30 […]

Cyber Monday is well underway today and is set to hit record breaking sales. According to a recent report, Cyber Monday sales are estimated to hit $3 billion for the first time this year. While we’re in the last leg of Cyber Monday shopping,  it’s still not too late to jump on the holiday savings […]

At the Aug. 6 Gaithersburg City Council meeting, City Attorney Lynn Board provides the details of the annexation agreement of the “Sears property.”

After a Montgomery County Council committee meeting to discuss a petition by the Sears company for Gaithersburg to annex the Great Indoors site (off Shady Grove Road and near 355), Rockville Mayor Phyllis Marcuccio said she was not disappointed as Rockville officials already knew there was nothing legally they could do to stop the petition. […]