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- Tonight, parents at Oakland Terrace Elementary School can learn more about plans to place kindergartners in empty classrooms at Sligo Middle School. With over 900 students estimated to attend Oakland Terrace in coming [...] 
- Check out these RAD photos from East of Maui, the 1990's-era skatepark once located on Ellsworth Drive where Silver Plaza is today. If you're like me, you'll spend a few minutes wondering what this kid would've flown into today. (My guess is [...] 
Mayorga in 2006. Photo by Katmere on Flickr using Creative Commons.
Silver Spring's new Civic Building (you know, the one with the windows) currently under construction at Ellsworth and Fenton shouldn't be named after anyone at all, say the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board. The' [...] 
- From the listservs: Shorpy is an awesome website that catalogs high-resolution historical photos, many of which are from the D.C. area. You might not believe it, but this photo above was taken at the intersection of Georgia and Eastern avenues (today's South [...] 
- A firefighter at the Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department brought a drunk woman to sleep at the station who woke up in the middle of the night and relieved herself in the bunk of [...] 
Mmm, Wheaton. I believe this yellow cake came from the Little Bitts bakery on Triangle Lane.
- Okay, so the Trolley Museum didn't actually reopen last Saturday. My bad. Though it did give Cyndy a reason to see the ridiculous cell phone tower disguised as a tree that's been put up next door. The museum, meanwhile, says they'll [...] 
Wheaton residents who fear their small-town status is being subsumed by gentrification (or, alternately, dying a slow death) might take solace in this letter to suburban Chicago's Daily Herald from Mary Landreth about' [...] 
- Acha Kamara, the Sierra Leone Inspector General of Police, was honored last week at a dinner held in The Warwick, an apartment complex on University Boulevard [...] 
If you haven't noticed already, posting's been a little light this week because of the Thanksgiving weekend. JUTP will be back up to full speed Monday morning. Anyway:
- The National Capital Trolley Museum says they're still planning to re-open this Saturday. Located on Bonifant Road in Layhill for forty years, the museum lost much of their collection of historic streetcars in a 2003 fire and was displaced by construction' [...] 
- It won't be finished for nearly two years, but check out these images of the new White Oak Community Recreation Center anyway. At 33,000 square feet, it'll be the largest such facility in the county. In addition to the standard fare (gym, game [...] 
The death of a 63-year-old pedestrian in the circle at 16th and Colesville on Wednesday is a reminder of how dangerous the streets of Downtown Silver Spring are for pedestrians. Sligo at Silver Spring, [...] 
- Of course, tomorrow is the annual Montgomery County Thanksgiving Parade in Downtown Silver Spring. (Hoping the mounted horses don't pee everywhere this time.) The parade kicks off at Georgia and Sligo at 9:30am' [...] 
Once the dragonfly fell to earth, it didn't have a chance. There was a sale at DSW Shoe Warehouse and the high heels were the first to go, clomping loudly and' [...] 
I know Sligo at Silver Spring, Singular likes his mid-century modernism, so this is for you. The Sears in White Oak (once the "largest Sears in America" according to [...] 
- What's wrong with the scene in this [blurry] photo, taken last Saturday night on Ellsworth Drive in Downtown Silver Spring? That's right: there are cars. Is not closing Ellsworth on [...] 
part FIVE of a series about new development proposals in Calverton and Hyattsville by Percontee.
One little-known fact about Chick-Fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy (or, as he wrote it, 'S. Truett Cathy) is that he is an apostrophe fanatic, much to the chagrin of his friends, family and English teachers. The fast-food [...] 
One month after the ice rink outside the new Silver Spring Civic Building was formed, we're seeing even more signs of progress. The supports for the super-modern, glowing canopy that'll go [...] 
- Over in College Park, the University of Maryland's cut their ties with development firm Foulger Pratt/Argo to which was going to build East Campus, a mixed-use development on Route 1 "twice the size of . . . downtown Silver Spring," which FP/Argo [...] 
Congratulations on getting your very own music hall, East County! Hopefully the wait (which continues, after all, the thing hasn't even been built yet) is well worth it. Anyway:
If you haven't heard already . . .
JUTP reader and Wheaton resident Melanie alerted us to a sign advertising a new theatre opening at the former Cinema 'n' Drafthouse in Westfield Shoppingtown Westfield Wheaton Wheaton Plaza, which closed [...] 
- Happy Veterans' Day, East County. Today's a day to commemorate the sacrifices of those who serve our country. This year, we also note the execution of John Allen Muhammad - better known as the mastermind behind the Beltway sniper attacks seven years ago [...] 
Supporters of a pedestrian bridge between the Silver Spring Library and the Wayne Avenue Garage are holding out hope that it'll still get built.
Come by tomorrow for an update on the new Silver Spring Library. In the meantime, if you missed it last week, check out these photos of the shuttered City Place [...] 
- Join Jerry McCoy of the Silver Spring Historical Society for their monthly tour of historic Georgia Avenue. The two-hour tour begins at 10am in front of the B&O Railroad station, [...] 
The last time I visited the AMC City Place 10 was in 1999, on a sixth-grade field trip to see Baby Geniuses (educational, right?). For members of White [...] 
part ONE of a series about new development proposals in Calverton and Hyattsville by Percontee.
The first thing you do when you buy a house is see if it will fit on your boat. (This is if you have made the correct choice to buy a [...] 
1) Unofficial "mayor of Silver Spring" Susan Hoffmann (above) lost her bid for re-election as official Mayor of Rockville to seventy-four-year-old Phyllis Marcuccio by just four hundred votes. Hoffmann won her first term in the 2007 Rockville mayoral race, which Just Up The [...] 
- The Department of Parks is holding a community meeting to discuss a temporary skate spot that'll be built in Woodside Park this winter. That meeting's at 7pm tonight at the Park [...] 
Staring out from the top of any tall building in MoCo, like Georgian Towers The Georgian, the most compelling part of the view is the trees, forming an almost-uninterrupted carpet of green across the landscape. It's comforting to know that, no matter how busy the' [...] 
From the Post:"A 25-year-old man was shot Monday evening in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery County police said.
- Just twelve people showed up at a public hearing for the InterCounty Connector tolling plan in Calverton Wednesday night. But Prince George's lawmakers say the charges to use the 16-mile highway - up' [...] 
The roundabout at Old Columbia Pike and Perrywood Drive in Burtonsville, outside Banneker Middle School, was completed about four years ago, but the hand-made street sign remains. I'm not sure who put it up -' [...] 
Rain cancelled many planned activities at the Silver Spring Library's annual BookFest last Saturday, but about sixty residents showed up anyway to catch a first glimpse of the new library, to [...] 
- The animal welfare website PetFinder.com hosts its third-annual Discovery Adoptable Pet Event tomorrrow. It's your chance to see "cute, adoptable pets, including dogs and (for the first time) cats" (emphasis theirs) [...] 
If you haven't already, check out this week's posts about pocket parks and skater kids and the future of Burtonsville (which got picked up by Greater Greater, don't you know). Anyway, [...] 
Skater kids, shown here in front of the Discovery Building, are the sole users of many Downtown spaces but are often chased out of them by security. Check out this photoset of pocket parks.
Not quite zombies, but close.
"Is Burtonsville settling?" asks Eric Luedtke, East County Citizens Advisory Board member. He was discussing the controversial ezStorage project that I can't say much about (it's [...] 
- Post food critic Tom Sietsema's 2009 Fall Dining Guide, includes three local restaurants: Ruan Thai in Wheaton; Cuba de Ayer in Burtonsville; and Kabob n Karahi in Cloverly (the review incorrectly' [...] 
- From the listservs: Samuel Myers, better known as Bonifant Street dry-cleaner Jim Dandy, will receive the 2009 Neal Potter Path of Achievement Award this year. Named for the former County [...] 
On Tuesday, WMATA held a public hearing to discuss changes to the Metrobus Q2 line between Silver Spring and Shady Grove. Kathy Jentz, East Silver Spring resident [...] 
- Work on 8407, chef Pedro Matamoros' new restaurant at 8407 Ramsey Avenue, formerly the Jamaican restaurant Yellow House (and before that, a tiki bar) is well underway. That is, at' [...]
- Work on 8407, chef Pedro Matamoros' new restaurant at 8407 Ramsey Avenue, formerly the Jamaican restaurant Yellow House (and before that, a tiki bar) is well underway. That is, at' [...]
At fourteen stories, a planned mixed-use complex based on D.C.'s CityVista would dwarf anything else in Downtown Wheaton. But is that necessarily a bad thing?
After years of civic wrangling, several close calls, and thirty-five thousand square feet of plastic grass, Silver Spring finally gets its ice-skating rink. Work commenced [...] 
- Those who take the Metrobus Q2 (Shady Grove-Silver Spring), the most-used route in Montgomery County, can learn and comment on plans to improve the line at a public [...] 
"No Americans come" to eat in Wheaton, say owners of Latino restaurants in the CBD. Staff with language barriers and a preference for traditional dining habits (according [...]
You might get tripped up, but there's still a road ahead, East County. Here's a look at what's happening this weekend:
This is a new sculpture in the plaza outside of the Argent, a brand-new condo at 410 and Blair Mill Road. It's pretty cool to think that nothing in this picture - save [...] 
Years in the making, a new pedestrian walkway connecting Georgia Avenue to Triangle Lane in downtown Wheaton looks like it could open any day now. It goes through [...] 
