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Detectives investigate downtown bank robbery

The Penguin newsroom — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:29:12 +0000

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division – Robbery Section are investigating a bank robbery that occurred Monday at the American Bank located at 8630 Georgia Ave in Silver Spring.

Blasting schedule set for Silver Spring transit center site

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:11:29 +0000

After endless digging and more digging, construction crews at downtown Silver Spring's transit center site will begin blasting at bedrock later this month, county reps announced.

Georgia Ave office building to bolster Fenton Village park

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:00:56 +0000

A development group and the county's planning board agreed to a deal that will shift public space from outside a Georgia Avenue office building to a park in Fenton Village.

Gratuitous Shot

Jennifer Deseo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00:52 +0000

Courtesy of Susan Sermoneta. The day after Thanksgiving marks the quasi-official start to the holiday shopping season, and according to The Washington Post, plenty of people hit the stores on Black Friday. Sure, people didn’t spend as much as they have in the past, The Post reported, but at least they put in some face time [...]

Downtown pizzerias show varying signs of progress

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:22:03 +0000

On one end of downtown Silver Spring, a franchise pizzeria is poised to fling open its doors and sling a few pies into its ovens. At the other end, a locally owned parlor sprouts slowly from scratch. It's the tale of two pizzerias on different tracks of development.

County, developer reach agreement on Fillmore music hall

Jennifer Deseo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:26 +0000

Stick a fork in it — negotiations to build a Fillmore music hall in downtown Silver Spring are done. Or as MoCo exec Ike Leggett exclaimed after a town-hall meeting Thursday night, “It’s done, done, done!”

Downtown shooting was related to drug deal, police say

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:24:35 +0000

The guy who took a bullet outside a City Place gym Monday evening was shot during a drug deal, detectives with the third police district announced Tuesday in a press statement.

Man shot in attempted robbery outside downtown gym

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:47:55 +0000

A 25-year-old man was shot in the leg Monday evening as two guys tried to rob him outside a Colesville Road gym, MoCo police said.

Transit-center construction included contamination cleanup, county official confesses

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Here’s the good news: Some of the construction work at Silver Spring’s transit-center site is cooking with oil. The bad news: It had also been cooking with nasty chemicals in the soil.

Crews at the Colesville Road site removed soil tainted with unspecified petrochemicals as part of their excavation work, David Dise, director of the county's general services department, told The Penguin at Saturday's library book fest. Peg that petrol on a fuel storage facility that Dise said was on that site back in the day.

Details drip in Downtown Silver Spring brawl

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:04:16 +0000

How many sugar-rushing, go-go grooving kids can you pack into Silver Plaza before a fight breaks out? About 7,000.