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19-Year-Old Pianist Wins with 103-Year-Old ‘Rach 3’
Min Ji Lee won first prize playing one of the most challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire — Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor.
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Community Notes
Community Notes
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A House for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity breaks ground on 50th house in Northern Virginia.
A House for Humanity
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Christmas Comes Early To Force Protectors
Christmas Comes Early To Force Protectors
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What Will The Consequences Be?
Changes made to fire bill, but major structure remains.
What Will The Consequences Be?
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He Doesn’t Come From ‘Out of the Blue’
Potomac native brings vocal group to home local church
He Doesn’t Come From ‘Out of the Blue’
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Program to Move to Wayside
Students with multiple disabilities will have the chance to be educated with their neighbors.
Program to Move to Wayside
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Week in Springfield
Week in Springfield
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Crime
Crime
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Bringing Home Colors of Fall
Late-blooming flowers are exploding with orange, yellow, purple and other vivid shades.
“Fall is a great time to plant,” said Claire Seesman of the Potomac Garden Center in Potomac. “There are a lot of fall blooming perennials: Echinacea (also known as purple cone flowers), ornamental fall grasses, mums, pansies, cabbage and kale are huge right now.”
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One-Woman Show in the Race for District 31 Senate?
Barbara Favola seeks reelection to Virginia State Senate.
For the second time in a month, Sen. Barbara Favola (D-31) debated by herself.
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Potomac: VisionWalk Raises Funds for Visually Impaired
Two-year-old Henry Skrivanek of Olney is the poster child for the 6th Annual Montgomery County 5K VisionWalk.
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Letter: Consider City’s Future
Letter to the Editor
Having been active in Alexandria for the past 15 years, it has been clear that the city has faced its fair share of challenges, including many outside of its control. We have seen our quality of life erode at the edges because of the differences between the city’s revenues and expenditures.
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Centreville Letter: Countering Terrorism With Interfaith Prayer
Letter to the Editor
We often see Muslims in the media creating terrorism, but the Muslims of the Ahmadiyya Community are fighting against it.
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Arlington: Schools To Dip Into Reserves
School Board sacrifices future budgets to avoid cuts in 2017.
The good news is that the Arlington School Board approved a budget without cutting any of the proposed programs from the $582 million budget the School Board sent to the County Board.
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Vienna and McLean: Celebrating the Persian New Year
The Nowruz Festival will be held Sunday, March 13 at Tysons Corner Center.
Following 3,000 years of customs and traditions, the colorful Nowruz Festival -- the Persian New Year celebration -- will be held on Sunday, March 13 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Alexandria Obituary: Remembering Dorothy Evans Turner
Public housing, Civil Rights activist dies at 87.
To her friends, she was affectionately known as “Peaches.” But the tender moniker belied the fierce, unyielding spirit of Dorothy Turner, a descendant of one of Alexandria’s oldest African American families, when she was fighting for equal rights for public housing tenants.
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Reston: Celebrating Pinter, Poetry Month
Reston’s CenterStage celebrates Harold Pinter and National Poetry Month with actor Julian Sands.
Be smitten by the works of Nobel recipient Harold Pinter who wrote romantic verses to his wife such as this; "You are my life, And so I live."
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Transportation Strategy Update Launched
NVTA launches work on a six-year TransAction program.
Members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) chose an appropriate location to announce the launch of the organization’s TransAction update efforts last week.
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