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Duck Donuts Opens in the City of Fairfax

At first glance, Duck Donuts seems like a funny name for a doughnut shop. But those familiar with the legendary doughnut store in Duck, N.C. – from which it gets its name – know it’s the real deal.

Potomac Snapshot: Corporate Award

Representatives from the Manna Food Center, Ahold USA and Giant Food gather at Manna Food Center’s Heroes Against Hunger Awards dinner.

Bacardi Wins Annual Great Rum Punch Challenge

Opinion: Letter to the Editor: Don’t Ignore Citizen and Civic Groups

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Town Status Knocks on RA’s Door

RCA seeks community support for town status referendum.

Town Status Knocks on RA’s Door

Senior Law Day: Alexandria for a Lifetime

On Saturday, Oct. 13, more than 150 people participated in the second annual Senior Law Day Program sponsored by Senior Services of Alexandria and the Alexandria Bar Association at the First Baptist Church in Alexandria.

Langley Puts a Damper on McLean’s `Senior Night’

Highlanders lose baseball finale, but finish regular season with impressive 14-6 record.

Langley Puts a Damper on McLean’s `Senior Night’

Bruins' Postseason Soccer Run Ends at State Semis

After tough start to season, Lake Braddock emerged as region power.

Lake Braddock Secondary's dramatic turnaround boys' soccer season in which the Bruins won just two of their first nine games before emerging as a Patriot District and Northern Region force the remainder of the spring campaign came to a tough ending last Friday afternoon, June 8 at Westfield High School when the local squad lost its Virginia State AAA semifinals playoff game by penalty kicks to opponent Albemarle High of Charlottesville, 2-1.

Jewish Community

New Initiatives Underway As School Sets to Open

Laptop computers given to students at Minnie Howard.

New Initiatives Underway As School Sets to Open

Coping With the War

Family members describe their loved one who is off to war.

Coping With the War

Commentary: Promoting Best Possible Beginning for Babies and Moms

If you could make a choice that would greatly improve the health of your family, would you do it? We did. Last year, Inova Alexandria Hospital charted a new course to improve the health of newborns and their mothers in our community family by encouraging more mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies. With its proven health benefits of preventing chronic illness in both mothers and babies, breastfeeding is the best possible beginning.

Great Falls Goes to the Polls

Off-year election decides governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, delegate, sheriff.

Great Falls residents exercised their right to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, heading to the polls to decide on a new governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state delegate, sheriff and on a school bond.

Column: ‘Scantsy’

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to characterize the feelings I regularly experience during the final few weeks leading up to my every-three-month CT Scan, and even more so the feelings I experience waiting the following week or so to see my oncologist to discuss the results.

Alexandria: MetroStage Presents ‘The Letters’

Two-person psychological, cat-and-mouse drama takes place in 1930’s Soviet Union.

MetroStage in Alexandria is presenting the psychological drama, “The Letters,” directed by John Vreeke, May 15 to June 14.

Column: “CT Looked Good”

Commentary

Cryptic? Hardly. Words I can live with the for the next three months until my next CT Scan? Absolutely.

Running for Cure

Michelle Wilds of Fairfax will run in the Race for Cure in memory of her mother Elizabeth.

On her 21st birthday, Michelle Wilds lost her mother. A Fairfax resident and George Mason business student, Michelle had watched her mother, Elizabeth, combat aggressive inflammatory cancer since her diagnosis in 2008.

History Tells How Burke, VA Almost Disappeared

Burke, Virginia, now an 11.5 square mile unincorporated section of Fairfax County with a population of roughly 41,000, was fated to disappear in 1951.

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