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Calendar and Entertainment: Potomac
Calendar and Entertainment: Potomac
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Potomac Home Sales: July, 2021
In July, 2021, 92 Potomac homes sold between $2,562,500-$550,000.
Potomac Home Sales: July, 2021
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New Law Could Help Save Turtles
Wild turtles need protection; enjoy them by seeing them, but leave them be.
From scratchy ancient petroglyphs to the children’s book heroine, Myrtle the turtle, to fictional superheroes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, turtles have long fascinated people.
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Shoestring Theatre Co. Presents ‘The Frenchman’
Original play about a French colony in Virginia
In the 18th century, a citizen of France traveled to America, came to Virginia and changed it forever by founding a French colony here.
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Flourishing After 55 in Arlington
Office of 55+ Programs
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Application Drought for McLean CBC: No Inquiries
Zoning and land use attorney discusses project challenges
Developers may be working quietly on plans or assembling parcels for future development in downtown McLean.
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Area Campgrounds Offer a Rustic Oasis Just Outside the Beltway
Various levels of camping varies from roughing it in tents, to RV sites with running water.
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Opinion: Commentary: Virginia State Police Funding
Next year in 2022, the Virginia Department of State Police (VSP) will celebrate its 90th anniversary.
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Back to School: The Best Shot: Vax Up!
Fairfax County families and educators discuss COVID-19 School Year 2021-22.
The first day of the much-anticipated, in-person return to school for SY2021-22 looms for many families, friends, and educators in Fairfax County's independent, public and home-based education systems.
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Universities Measure Heat Disparities in Virginia
Marymount professor and student join ‘Heat Watch’ effort.
Enduring dangerously high temperatures, Marymount University student Bader Hakami and biology professor Susan Agolini spent a day working as community scientists.
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Silver Anniversary, Grande Finale
Last performance for Bowen McCauley Dance Company to celebrate final performance, at Kennedy Center
Lucy Bowen has decided to go out with a bang.
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Appetite: Dine In, Out or at Home During This Summer Alexandria Restaurant Week
Like an old friend that you know you can rely on year after year, Alexandria’s summer Restaurant Week is almost here once more.
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Snakeheads Are Thriving in Area Waters
Snakeheads taste like a tender pork chop, some say.
They lurk in the murky, sluggish shallows, their elongated bodies and splotchy, brown skin camouflaged in the shoreline’s woody detritus and dense vegetation.
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Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Olympic Gators
Phoebe Bacon '20 and Katie Ledecky '15, both of Stone Ridge, swim in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
It is essentially unheard of to have two Olympians from the same high school participate in the Olympics together, said Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, which had alumnae Phoebe Bacon (Class of 2020) and Katie Ledecky (Class of 2015) swim for Team USA in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Flourishing After 55 in Arlington
Office of 55+ Programs
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Arlington Swimmers Want Pool Agreement Reconsidered
Superintendent‘s decision not reviewed first by school board and pool patrons
Arlington taxpayer and swimmer Walt Edwards is angry.
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Vienna Police Highlights: July 23 – July 29, 2021
The following summary contains various incidents of general interest handled by the Town of Vienna Police Department from July 23 – July 29, 2021.
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Brightview Explores Plan for Leesburg Pike Facility in Vienna
Senior Living reps hold two community engagement meetings with Vienna, Great Falls neighbors
Brightview Senior Living has resumed community engagement for its proposed Continuing Care Facility project at 9439 Leesburg Pike [Route 7], Vienna.