A Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy is being recognized after helping reunite a runaway juvenile with their family while off duty.
Amazing Art Studio, the longtime Gaithersburg-based creative destination, is expanding to Silver Spring with the grand opening of its second location at White Oak Town Center.
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Collars & Co., the menswear brand known for its appearance on Shark Tank, will officially open its flagship Bethesda store on Wednesday, June 10.
Montgomery County Police and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFRS) responded to a collision involving an overturned dump truck at the roundabout at Brookeville Road and Georgia Avenue in Brookeville on Monday afternoon. (more…)
The Takoma Park Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred early Sunday morning in the 100 block of Philadelphia Avenue.
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Students at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown turned a music performance into a powerful lesson in history, compassion, and peace this spring. (more…)
The Mental Health Version of an Annual Physical Is Here
By Montgomery County Counseling Center
You get the annual physical. You go to that 9am dentist appointment. You’re vigilant about your sleep and exercise. You treat your well-being as something you maintain, not just repair. Why is mental health different? Why aren’t we more proactive? Why do we only seek out support when something goes wrong? Mental health is so often treated like an afterthought when routine check-ups can make a world of difference. Montgomery County Counseling Center is working to change the way we view mental health with a new offering designed to put wellness and preventative care on the map for good.
For most people, mental health care follows a pretty predictable pattern. Something gets hard enough and it lasts long enough that it finally feels like a problem worth addressing. So then you find a therapist and you start working on it until you’re out of crisis, and then you stop. But that’s not the only path and for a lot of people, it’s not the best starting point either; the threshold for “is it bad enough to say something” ends up being way higher than it needs to be, and a lot gets ignored in the meantime.
Think about how you approach the rest of your health. You don’t wait for a heart attack to see a cardiologist. You don’t wait until you’re sick to get your flu shot. You plan ahead. You stay on top of it. You check in. You make decisions based on something more than a gut feeling or a bad stretch. The value of a routine checkup isn’t that it always finds something. It’s that you know either way, and make minor precautionary tweaks. Mental health doesn’t have to be any different.
And yet, for most people, it is. There hasn’t really been the equivalent of an annual physical for mental health. No annual touchpoint, like a birthday or a new year, where someone sits down with a professional and simply goes over how they’re doing. There’s certainly no outside party, like a school, a sports league, or a camp that insists you get checked. That’s why people fall through the slim cracks between doing great and being at risk. After all, the absence of a crisis is not the same thing as a clean bill of mental health. (more…)
One year after celebrating its 50th anniversary, Armand’s Pizzeria & Grille in Rockville has announced it will permanently close. In a message shared with customers, owners Chris Sappe and Jim Hrozencik said the restaurant’s final day of operation will be June 20, 2026, ending a more than five-decade run serving DMV and Montgomery County residents in various locations.
The upcoming closure of Tippy’s Taco House in Centreville, VA has sparked an outpouring of support for two employees who many customers say were the true heart of the restaurant.
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UPDATE (8:29am): MCFRS Chief Spokesperson Pete Piringer says several workers were injured during an electrical mishap involving an electrical vault near the Medical Center Metro Station. Multiple workers were evaluated at the scene, with three transported to area hospitals. According to Piringer, one patient was transported as a Priority 1 trauma patient and two others as Priority 2 trauma patients. All three suffered serious injuries, including electrical burns and other injuries. The incident remains under investigation.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service crews are responding to a major electrical incident near the Medical Center Metro station that has left six people injured.
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Updated at 10:07am: Montgomery County police are investigating a fatal collision that occurred early Monday morning near the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and Gail Street in Silver Spring.