The South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association (SSSNA) held a community meeting last night at the Eastern Village Condominium complex. Invited to give an update on crime in the area was Commander Betsy Davis of the 3rd district. The commander is a long time Silver Spring resident that covers 32 square miles of the Silver Spring [...]

I can’t think of the last time the local TV news media covered Silver Spring/Maryland so inimitably outside someone getting shot or robbed. To my surprise the controversy made the first segment on the local TV stations, lasting longer than 30 seconds. In fact there was a Fox News van on Ellsworth this morning.
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Silver Spring based Hook & Ladder Brewing Company has plans to open a bar/restaurant in the old Firehouse #1. Silver Spring Scene first brought the scoop. Recent info reveals that Brothers Rich and Matt Fleischer have purchased the historic firehouse at 8138 Gerorgia Avenue, after several investor bids came forth with plans like a cafe [...]

In the spirit of Just Up The Pike’s “County Government Head-to-Head Tour“, the Silver Spring Scene decided to join the crusade and find answers to some pressing questions.
It was a cold and cloudy Monday afternoon in Montgomery County’s government seat, a snow storm was around the corner. Crossing Maryland Avenue you could see the new [...]

The Silver Spring Regional Center meeting room was packed with community residents and groups; several listening in from outside the doorway. What was suppose to be a discussion focused on the public use space for the planned Falkland Chase development, led to a wide range of questions bombarding the Co-Chairman and Founder of Home [...]

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Flashback to August 2006 and you might remember the beginning of “Falkland Chase under fire“. It was that month the owner and developer Home Properties held a resident meeting announcing plans to demolish the northern section of the historic site for the largest residential project in Silver Spring in recent history. At that time the [...]

If you’ve been wondering why posts at the Silver Spring Scene have been few and far between, well, here is part of the reason. As promised on the sites blogiversary, a totally new blog would be born, everything is brand spanking new. The Scene is no longer using Blogger/Blogspot, it’s now on the Word Press [...]

A double post at the housing trend tracking blog, Bubble Meter, attacks two condominium buildings in downtown Silver Spring. This wouldn’t be the first time blog creator ‘David’, puts the spotlight on the Silver Spring condo market. The conversion taking place at the former Springwood Apartments, now turned MICA, has become a reoccurring ‘butt of [...]

Maryland public high school students should raise their heads high as they achieved second place standing nationally. It didn’t make the front page on the Washington Post or even the local TV media outlets like some other rosey reports but that doesn’t make it any less significant. According to the non-profit group College Board, [...]