Montgomery Community Media

Rockville’s Shop Local hosts start-up businesses at no cost and provides services to help women grow their businesses. Created in May 2019 as a pop-up store, Shop Local is sponsored by the Maryland Women’s Business Center and has launched a variety of successful small businesses at the Rockville Town Square. Currently, Shop Local’s list of […]

The Holidaze marketplace is scheduled to open on select dates, starting Dec. 4 through Dec. 23.

The Fenton Street Market, a weekly marketplace in Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring, is hosting an opening party to celebrate its holiday pop-up store at the upstairs gallery space inside Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring. The Holidaze marketplace is scheduled to open on select dates, starting Dec. 2 through Dec. 23 where visitors […]

With the busiest shopping time of the year around the corner, government officials are reminding residents to shop local and to shop small during the holiday season. On Nov. 24, Maria Contreras-Sweet, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, visited Americana Grocery Store in Silver Spring […]