UPDATE: These mailboxes have been gathered in this area for a while, according to a Google Maps image.
Someone appears to have gathered USPS blue collection boxes/mail receptacles in Downtown Silver Spring, according to a tweet shared with us this morning.
“Tip Your Cap” Negro League Exhibit Comes to Sandy Spring Slave Museum
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Negro League Baseball, the Sandy Spring Slave Museum will host a new exhibit about the Negro Leagues as part of the “Tip Your Cap” initiative.
Back in December we told you that Ulta would be taking over the old Dress Barn location in the Neelsville Shopping Center in Germantown. This morning we were told that they expect the location to open around October.
Ulta Beauty, an America beauty chain with over 1,000 stores that carry cosmetics, skincare brands, men’s and women’s fragrances, nail products, bath & body products, beauty tools, hair care products, and is equipped with a salon, brow bar, and skin bar, is coming to the Neelsville Village shopping center in Germantown.
Leisure World is an age-restricted, gated development primarily inhabited by retirees. The area was formerly known as the Rossmoor census-designated place for the 2000 census, at which time it had a population of 7,569– named after developer Ross Cortese, who had acquired the land for $5 million in the early 60s.
The sales office opened in 1965 and the shopping center broke ground in October of 1967 with Safeway, People’s, Hot Shoppes, and more signed on. The Leisure World Globe used to be colorful and even rotated (backwards). After years of security having to make people stop “riding” the globe, and multiple motor malfunctions, the change was made to the static globe we see today.
George’s Hotpot and BBQ in Gaithersburg (24 Bureau Dr.) has jumped into the seafood game.
The hotpot and bbq restaurant has added Cajun style seafood to cater to customers who aren’t quite ready to dine-in yet.
COVID-19 impacting non-white, uninsured MoCo residents the most.
In July, the Washington Post reported that in Montgomery County, Hispanic residents — who make up about a fifth of the County’s population — accounted for 74 percent of recent COVID-19 cases.
Taco Bell in Burtonsville should open in “about a week,” according to the head of the construction crew putting the finishing touches on the fast food restaurant.
Located in Burtonsville Town Square, construction began back in the spring of 2019.
Yesterday, it was announced that residents who used an AdvaGenix COVID test at a Montgomery County site within the past two weeks ought to be retested. AdvaGenix kits were primarily used for asymptomatic individuals and were self-administered tests. According to a press release, approximately 8% of COVID tests used throughout the county were processed by AdvaGenix.
Montgomery County’s testing partnership with AdvaGenix has been suspended for the moment. Residents who have upcoming appointments at a site that planned to use AdvaGenix kits are being notified and will be alerted of alternative locations to take their test.
Party & Essentials is taking over the location that was home to Kim’s Tailor in the Hillcrest Center in Olney.
Located on Georgia Avenue, next to Intuition Boutique, the party supply shop is planning on opening on Monday, August 24th,
Sarah Cooper, best known for her lip-syncing videos of President Trump on TikTok, has landed a Netflix special.
Cooper moved to Rockville at age 3 and graduated from Magruder High School; she then attended the University of Maryland, College Park. Cooper was born in Jamaica.
The Wegmans will be 92,000 square feet, and is planned to be built on the corner of Rockville Pike and Halpine Road. Along with the store, an apartment complex and parking garage will be added to the site. Developers estimate the initial stage of development will be completed by 2024.
The Wegmans is part of a major multi-phase development that was officially approved by the Rockville Planning Commission, according to Bethesda Magazine. The development includes several new apartment buildings, numerous office and retail locations, and a 1-acre park.