Burtonsville

Chapala Tex-Mex in Burtonsville has announced it will be ceasing operations on February 16th.

Last month we spoke with John Angel, one of the owners of the restaurant, who told us that they purchased the neighboring building that was home to Seibel’s for 82 years at 15540 Old Columbia Pike (Seibel’s closed permanently on November 28th).


Retail

Last year Kohl’s announce a major partnership with Sephora that would open 850 Sephora “shop-in-shops” in Kohl’s locations across the country by 2023, in a similar deal to the one struck between Target and Ulta. Sephora previously had a partnership with J.C. Penney that has been slowly winding down ever since J.C. Penney filed for bankruptcy in 2020.

Kohl’s has Montgomery County locations in Aspen Hill, Calverton, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, and is about to start construction on the first Sephora shop-in-shop location at the Calverton location, which is in the orchard Center on Cherry Hill Road. This will be the first Kohl’s location in Maryland to add a Sephora.


Silver Spring

Silver Branch Brewing Co. at 8401 Colesville Rd #150 in Silver Spring will be holding an event this Saturday, January 15 at 5pm, celebrating the life of Betty White on what would have been her 100th birthday weekend. White passed away at age 99 on December 31, 2021.

The brewery will have themed cocktails and will be showing episodes of the Golden Girls on their taproom projector. One dollar from every “Betty White” cocktail sold will be donated the Key to Lion’s Heart rescue.


Gaithersburg

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services responded to a townhouse fire on the 300blk of W Deer Park Rd in Gaithersburg on Wednesday morning around 3am.

Chief Spokesperson for MCFRS Pete Piringer reports that up to 20 people from six different townhouse units are displaced.