Arts

Fleetwood Mac’s song “Silver Springs” is based on Silver Spring, MD. While many of us love Nicks’ music and the song itself, the title of the song could be one of the reasons people often add an ‘s’ to the end of our beloved Montgomery County… census designated place.

Primarily a British blues band at first, Fleetwood Mac scored a UK number one with “Albatross”, and had other hits such as the singles “Oh Well” and “Man of the World”.  In late 1974, while Fleetwood was scouting studios in Los Angeles, he heard American folk-rock duo Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and asked Buckingham to be their new lead guitarist, and Buckingham agreed on condition that Nicks could also join the band.


Restaurants

Kumbia, a South American restaurant focusing on cuisine from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador, will be holding its grand opening celebration at on Saturday, March 19th. The new restaurant is located at 100 B Gibbs Street in Rockville Town Square, the former location of Spice Xing.

Per Federal Realty: Kumbia will occupy a 3,904-sqaure-foot space at 100 B Gibbs Street next to First Watch and Truist Bank. Named after the popular music style similar to salsa and reggae, the full-service restaurant will offer a variety of South American food from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador. It will also offer a robust tableside cocktail menu and a variety of nighttime entertainment.


MoCoSnow

Per the National Weather Service, “rapidly deteriorating conditions expected across the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas as well as northeastern Maryland by 9 AM this morning as rain changes to heavy snow. Rates of 1-2″ per hour are possible at times with gusty winds.”

Winter Storm Warning for NW MoCo, Winter Weather Advisory for C/SE MoCo.


MoCo Government

The winners have been announced of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation’s “Heads Up, Phones Down” high school video contest.

Montgomery County teens were asked to create videos to encourage peers not to allow cell phones to distract them while driving and walking. Prizes included a PS5, an Apple Watch, and Amazon gift cards.


Darnestown

Horizon Therapeutics plc announced in January that it signed a long-term, full-building lease with Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. to be the first tenant at the Alexandria Center® at Traville Gateway campus in Rockville, Maryland. The 192,000-square foot building with a five-level parking garage containing up to 562 spaces is currently being constructed for Research and Development use at 9810 Darnestown Rd next to the Travilah Square shopping center.

When completed, the state-of-the-art facility will serve as the company’s primary East Coast research and development and technical operations hub. Construction at the nearly 200,000-square-foot site is underway and Horizon expects to start work on interior improvements in 2023. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.


Lakeforest Mall

Rita’s Italian Ice, located on the lower level of Lakeforest Mall (701 Russel Ave) in Gaithersburg, has permanently closed.

The chain, which is known for their Italian ice and frozen custard, has remaining MoCo locations in Burtonsville, Derwood, Germantown, and Silver Spring.  It previously had locations in Gaithersburg (Quince Orchard Rd) and Olney.


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