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Hyland Covers Controversial Topics
Hyland Covers Controversial Topics
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Skin Care Advice for Tysons Shoppers
Dr. Amy Wechsler, one of two doctors in the country who are board certified in both psychiatry and dermatology, talks to customers at Macy's.
Skin Care Advice for Tysons Shoppers
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A Formal Day To Remember
Fair Oaks firefighters, search team reflect on Sept. 11.
A Formal Day To Remember
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Retired Officers Lister to Candidates
Morrogh, Petersen and Scott address law enforcement community.
Retired Officers Lister to Candidates
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A Big Night for Crestwood
Cafeteria hostess Eleanor Williams honored during Crestwood Elementary’s 50th anniversary celebration.
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The Miracle of Life
Did you know that the Book of Esther read every year on the holiday of Purim (Thursday March 8), is the only book in the entire Bible in which a reference to God is not made even once? Why?
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Creating Bowls to Fill at McLean High
McLean High School prepares for upcoming Empty Bowls event.
On May 31, the community will be invited to McLean High School to select a clay bowl, fill it with the ice cream of their choice and donate money to help feed hungry people. But on Thursday, March 1, the bowls were just one-pound lumps of clay, waiting for dozens of students and faculty to turn them into bowls.
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A Formal Day To Remember
Fair Oaks firefighters, search team reflect on Sept. 11.
A Formal Day To Remember
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Letter: Westgrove Park and River Towers
Westgrove Park Off Leash Dog Area (OLDA) proves its worth.
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Colvin Run Mill Hosts Open House
Participation in grant competition inspires outreach effort.
Colvin Run Mill held an open house inviting guests to come see the historic mill in operation Sunday, May 5. Millers grinded grain, and local blacksmith Pat McGuire fired up the forge for a demonstration.
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Council Notebook
It's official. The Alexandria City Council is against expanding operations at a hazardous materials facility on the West End of the city near the Van Dorn Metro station and just a few hundred feet from Tucker Elementary School.
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Expo Sunoco Eyes Expansion
Alcoholic beverages sales concern WFCCA.
Sunoco plans to expand its gas station near the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly.
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As Sandy Rolls In, Still Plan to Vote 10/31/2012
Variety of choices in political landscape.
Hurricane Sandy means that the week preceding the election will not be what we were expecting. This editorial is being written Sunday night, Oct. 28, as forecasters predict five inches of rain and 65-mile-per-hour winds over the next two days. With some predicting that power could take a week or more to restore, we have to worry about the likely condition of the Eastern seaboard will be on Election Day, Nov. 6. Absentee voting in person had been cancelled for Monday, and most government offices were closed in anticipation of the storm. What will this mean for voter turnout, for access to voting places on Election Day?
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Langley High School Presents ‘Little Women’
Students put on musical version of Louisa May Alcott novel.
When it came to playing sisters, Langley High School students Madeleine Chalk, Jamie Goodson, Kathryn Bailey and Camila Maric were more than up to the task. The four play the March sisters in Langley’s upcoming production of “Little Women.”
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Column: In and Of Itself
Even though I’ve been riding this non-small cell lung cancer roller coaster going on 56 months now, post-diagnosis; I still can’t separate cancer effects (physically, mentally, psychologically, spiritually, etc.) from normal age-related effects, and by normal I mean reasonably expected at this middle age: gray hair as an example. Certainly I don’t want the effects (symptoms if you must) to indicate cancer on the move and/or the stage IV tumors in my lungs doing something to complicate an already precarious set of terminal circumstances. However, as life goes on, I’m likely to experience this sort of fact (cancer) from some kinds of fiction (not cancer). No one ever said living with cancer would be easy, quite the opposite in fact. Nevertheless, living is preferred, so complications be damned.
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Alexandria's New Book Shelf
DreamDog Foundation creates citywide literacy program.
Passionate about sharing the gift of reading, the DreamDog Foundation intends to get books into the hands of every child in need in the City of Alexandria through its new literacy program called Alexandria's Book Shelf.
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Great Falls Remembers 9/11
Annual ceremony marks 11 years since attacks.
Several dozen Great Falls residents gathered at the Great Falls Freedom Memorial Tuesday, Sept. 11 to pay tribute to those lost on that day, particularly six Great Falls residents that were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
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Column: Help Craft City’s First Youth Master Plan
Alexandria is a community that supports and enhances the well-being, success, and achievement of children, youth and families: True or false?
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Column: Seeing Progress on U.S. 1
As we move to the end of the General Assembly session, we are engaged in intense negotiations on the major issues. Also, we have had significant progress on U.S. 1.