Olazzo in Silver Spring Set to Close Permanently After 15 Years
Olazzo, an Italian restaurant in Silver Spring, announced that they will be closing permanently this weekend after serving the community for 15 years.
The restaurant located on Georgia Avenue in Downtown Silver Spring made the announcement through a Facebook post, where they thanked the community for their support.
“Words cannot describe how appreciative we are to the community for allowing us to operate for 15 great years, but it’s time for us to focus on other pursuits and dedicate our passions evenly,” the post said. “It truly has been a pleasure to serve our local community and feel a part of something great.”
Roy Exum: An Unconscionable Insult Friday, April 30, 2021 - by Roy Exum
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The Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, just five years removed from being chosen as the best in all of the United States, has just crashed and burned. Chamber president Christy Gillenwater, surely spurred by Board Chair and black activist Valoria Armstrong, shook the Chatttanooga business community to its core Thursday. When it was learned the “woke” movement has generated a Chamber-led “CEO Pledge for Racial Equity,” the reactions went from “stunned and shocked” to “How does ‘this’ fit with ‘that’?”
The overwhelming majority of city and county taxpayers – whose elected leaders appropriate over $400,000 to the Chamber to enhance the business economy – are aghast to learn they have lived for years in a community of systemic racism and I, as a lifelong citizen, will testify under oath that I believe Ms.
It happened near intersection of Georgia Avenue, Rippling Brook Drive By Dan Schere |
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A pedestrian died after a car hit her in Aspen Hill Wednesday night, Montgomery County police said.
Claire E. Weissmeyer Grossmann, 63, of Silver Spring, was trying to cross Georgia Avenue near its intersection with Rippling Brook Drive, police said in a press release.
German Alexis Del Cid Mejia, 19, of Rockville, was driving a 2015 Toyota Camry north on Georgia Avenue when his car struck Grossmann around 11 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Grossmann was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Mejia was not injured.
Police had posted about the crash on Twitter earlier on Thursday, but did not include details about the crash or the identity of the driver and victim.
Driver hits, kills 63-year-old widow crossing the street, blocks from where her husband died
Claire E. Weissmeyer Grossmann and her late husband Robert Grossmann were both hit and killed by drivers while crossing Georgia Avenue, five years apart. Author: Laura Wainman, Scott Broom, John Henry Published: 3:12 PM EDT April 29, 2021 Updated: 11:12 PM EDT April 29, 2021
WHEATON-GLENMONT, Md. A 63-year-old widow who lost her husband in 2016 when a driver hit and killed him while he was trying to cross the street has now met the same fate just blocks from where her husband died.
Claire E. Weissmeyer Grossmann, of Silver Spring, was struck by a 19-year-old driver late Wednesday night in the Aspen Hill neighborhood, Montgomery County Police said.