5 Things You Need to Know Today: June 17

Good Morning! What five things do you need to know to stay up-to-date about what’s going on in the community? Patch has you covered this Friday morning:

1. Expect more showers and thunderstorms throughout today. The skies might be mostly cloudy, with a high near 86 degrees. Into the evening, the thunderstorms may continue with mostly cloudy skies and a low around 69 degrees. 

2. Coming up in Patch, there are plenty of activities going on this weekend in downtown from a girls' night out at the spa, blues festival and Washington Revels concert on Sunday (Tamika Smith, your Silver Spring Patch Editor, will be there!). 

3. The top three cheapest gas stations near you: Sunoco located at 8225 Piney Branch Rd. (cash prices all $0.06 less) for $3.73; G & G Service Center at 9501 Georgia Ave. for $3.77, and Chevron located at 9475 Georgia Ave. for $3.79. (These prices are courtesy of gasbuddy.com)

4. Coming up in Patch, keep a tab on crime in your community with the police blotter from the previous week. In the meantime, check out how Silver Spring did compared to other areas of Montgomery County in the yearly report recently released the police officials.

5. Not signed up yet for our twitter page (SilvSpringPatch) or Facebook? Silver Spring Patch is now even easier to read with community news, local events and business listings at your fingertips. Just click "follow" on twitter and add us as a friend on facebook.

MORE ON PATCH: 

Welcome to our new series called "Changes in Your Community!" We will explore development and what that has meant to the diverse neighborhoods in Silver Spring. Throughout this feature you will meet Montgomery County officials working behind the scenes on the expansion of these projects, small business owners, and local leaders among others. .