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Silver Spring Hit By Tornado 100 Years Ago Today
At approximately 3 p.m. on April 5, 1923, an unprecedented tornado tore through Silver Spring, injuring four people, destroying five houses, and partially wrecking a dozen others, but miraculously killing no one.
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County Offices Opening as Scheduled
The county’s offices and departments will open today as scheduled, as the region digs out from a winter storm that dumped up to 8 inches of snow on the area.
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Residents Asked to Avoid Traveling on Roadways if Possible
The county’s Department of Transportation is asking residents to stay off the roads and avoid travel as crews work to clear roads after a winter storm dumped up to 8 inches of snow on the area.
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Hyperthermia Alert Issued for Montgomery County for Monday, July 12
A Hyperthermia Alert has been issued for Montgomery County for Monday, July 12 from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. The County issues a Hyperthermia Alert when temperatures and/or heat indices are forecast to reach 95 degrees or higher.
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Hyperthermia Alert Issued for Montgomery County
A Hyperthermia Alert has been issued for Montgomery County for Tuesday, July 6 from 12 p.m. until 7 p.m. The County issues a Hyperthermia Alert when temperatures and/or heat indices are forecast to reach 95 degrees or higher.
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Blumen Lumen Kinetic Art Now Operational, Open to Public
Blumen Lumen, the kinetic art installation at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road, is now fully operational and the site is open to the public. The installation from the Foldhaus art collective is a 25-foot tall group of “flowers” that changes colors and opens and closes based on weather information from the National…
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DOT Cautions Residents, Businesses Pandemic Restrictions Could Affect Storm Operations
The county’s Department of Transportation is cautioning residents and businesses that pandemic-related restrictions on personnel could slow the department’s response in areas affected by a winter storm. Crews began arriving Tuesday to pretreat area roads with salt brine to prevent frost and ice from forming, making snow removal easier. The county policy is to start…
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Sections of Sligo Creek Parkway to be Closed Friday for Repairs
Montgomery Parks will close two sections of Sligo Creek Parkway tomorrow, Sept. 18 to vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians from 8 a.m.–2 p.m. The sections are: Parkway from Colesville Road to Wayne Avenue, and Parkway from Kennebec Avenue to Maple Avenues.
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Life in the Time of the Coronavirus: Voices from Silver Spring—Dr. Lilly Walker Shelton
Editor’s note: This guest post and photo is from Jonna Huseman, who began the Voices project to document the lives of friends and neighbors in Silver Spring and Takoma Park and how they may have changed since the shelter in place order. It originally appeared on her blog, The Sligo Creek Photographer.