Montgomery County Council votes to keep Sligo open

The Montgomery County Council voted 7-2 Tuesday to approve spending $150,000 in public money to keep an inside-the-Beltway golf course open for the next nine months while the county tries to come up with a long-term plan to make the course financially solvent.

Elected officials who supported the appropriation to save Sligo Golf Course, which is a nine-hole course in Silver Spring that is popular with seniors and beginning golfers, said it was a jewel the county couldn’t afford to lose.