The Grand Prix of
Silver Spring cycling race will once again take place July 22nd from 8:00am to 12:00pm in downtown. I don’t think it was done last year.
To celebrate the new Harry Potter movie and book coming out, Borders will not only stay open late but will also turn Ellsworth drive into some Harry [...]

Bucking the regional trend of declining condo construction or perhaps just a case of the lemming syndrome, developers still find Silver Spring lucrative enough to push forward with their projects.

The planning staff report is out and recommendation for approval of the project called the Moda Vista Residences is planned to happen July 12th, 2007.

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A survey from the South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association has just been released for the Silver Spring community.
Just go to http://survey.southsilverspring.org/index.php?sid=76849 and fill out the form if you want your voice accounted for.
It only takes about 7 minutes to fill out.

Close to100 gathered at Silver Plaza in pursuit of their First Amendment rights. It was no coincident that the protest took place, today on America’s Independence Day, 4th of July.
News Channel 8, WAMU and Dan from “Just Up the Pike“ took notes of the protest while picking the brain of Jamie Raskin, state senator representing Silver [...]

Or at least raised? Just from personal knowledge and looking at the Wikipedia page about Silver Spring (in the historical section), is it safe to say that Silver Spring has the highest concentration of famous people in the D.C. area?
I wonder how it stacks up against larger more popular areas. People like David Chappelle, Rachel [...]

On July 3rd, District 5 Councilwoman Valerie Ervin will ask the rest of the County Council to reconsider the new parking rules that have extended hours in the Silver Spring CBD.
The new rules keep Silver Spring inline with existing parking hours in downtown Bethesda
Ervin will introduce a resolution that will change the new rules back [...]