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All Set, Money Muscle BBQ Adding Vegetarian and Vegan Menus
Downtown Silver Spring’s All Set Restaurant & Bar will offer a new exclusively vegetarian and vegan menu for lunch and dinner services on Tuesdays, starting later this month. Chef Ed Reavis, a health & fitness enthusiast, was inspired to create the menu following a recent partnership with Shouk, a local plant-based fast-casual chain.
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CKC Farming Deputy Director Honored as a Local Hero
CKC Farming deputy director Hannah Sholder has been honored by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-District 8) as a Local Hero of the Week for her work with farming in local communities, notably at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring.
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Black Lion Café Plans to Open in Fenton Silver Spring Apartments
Black Lion Café, a Rockville-based coffee shop and roaster, plans to open a location in the Fenton Silver Spring apartments, according to signs in the windows on the corner of Fenton Street and Thayer Avenue.
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County Executive Vetoes Silver Spring BID Legislation; Council Vows to Override
As promised, County Executive Marc Elrich yesterday vetoed a bill that would establish a business improvement district in Silver Spring. In response, seven County Council members vowed to override the veto when the council returned in September.
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Police Release Video of Armed Robbery Aboard Ride On Bus in Silver Spring
Detectives from the county’s 3rd District Investigative Section are looking to the public for help identifying a suspect in a July 4th armed robbery aboard a Ride On bus in Silver Spring.
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Quarry House Tavern Joins Summer Restaurant Week Promotion
Quarry House Tavern has joined the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s Summer Restaurant Week, according to a post to the tavern’s Instagram account.
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Takoma Park Begins Sidewalk Poetry Installation
The City of Takoma Park has begun the installation of sidewalks featuring poetry from local residents, as part of an interactive public art project organized by the City’s Arts and Humanities Division. The poems were chosen in a contest held earlier this year, with the winners receiving a $100 award in addition to their poetry…
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Veterans Plaza Hosting Ivorian Economic Cultural Festival
Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring is hosting the Ivorian Economic Cultural Festival today (Sunday, August 8). The festival, which kicked off at 9 a.m., will run until 10 p.m., featuring music and entertainment, arts and crafts, food vendors, and more.
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DTSS Named #7 on List of Top 10 Retail Experiences of 2021
Downtown Silver Spring has been named #7 on Chain Store Age magazine’s list of Top 10 Retail Experiences of 2021. “Can a retail center be so successful at reinvigorating a town that, 20 years after it first opened, it has to remake itself to catch up with what it accomplished?”