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Clean up at the loading docks of City Place mall are responsible for significant contamination found in the Bennington Tributary of Sligo Creek.
Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection issued a Notice of Violation to City Place Management on July 3rd.
Several months of investigative work, led DEP representatives Steve Martin and Dan McCann to the conclusion [...]

The Silver Spring Scene website is undergoing some changes that you will hopefully find enhances your blogging pleasure.
Gone is the GIF Animation, there is a new interactive header banner in Flash.
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The Washington Post is talking about it, so is the Gazette, but remember that you read it here first on the Silver Spring Scene. Recent news revealing Hook and Ladder Brewing Co. will be moving into the old historic fire house is part of an influx of independent business inundating Silver Spring.
Southern Georgia Avenue [...]

The Safeway at Four Corners was in the lead to take the top honors; but time after time of unfavorable experiences at the Safeway on Thayer Avenue, in downtown, it is clear to me which store gets the label as the worst store ever.
The Four Corners Safeway is a facility with a pungent order as [...]

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.
Discovery Communications [...]

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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 [...]

152 reports later, it’s been a full year since the Silver Spring Scene’s inception. With no other media sources covering prominent issues in depth with opinionated content, the Silver Spring Scene is an original blog that was started out of a passion and concern for Silver Spring, Maryland, an area with unrealized potential that is [...]