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Holidays: Time for Companionship

Seniors may need extra care over the holiday season when loneliness and depression can set in.

Holidays: Time for Companionship

Working Together To Grant a Wish

Sunrise Valley readies for its 6th annual 5K, a charity event to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Working Together To Grant a Wish

Commentary: Children and Outside Learning

Research highlights the benefits of outdoor and environmental education for children—ranging from increased academic achievement, improved social skills and interest in school, and boosted health, according to environmental education leaders who have organized NoVA Outside: An Alliance of Environmental Educators (www.novaoutside.org). I attended their School Environmental Action Showcase last week at George Mason University, and I was impressed by the students and their projects. The showcase is like a science fair but with the emphasis on environmental science.

Letter: Boards, Commissions and Power Politics

To the Editor: The city’s boards and commissions have grown to total 76 and were mostly established in the 1980s.

DockDogs Demonstration Highlights Lake Anne Pet Event

PetMAC Marketplace and Adoption Center in Lake Anne Plaza, Reston, hosted another Pet Event on Saturday, Sept. 12.

In Session: Virginia General Assembly Briefs

Ghost of Carter Glass

Meet state Sen. Carter Glass of Lynchburg.

Reston’s Own Opera Star

Elizabeth Bishop In concert at CenterStage on Sunday, Dec. 16.

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Opinion: Commentary: Preventing the Callous in Young Black America

Growing up in Birmingham, AL, I recall playing in the basement of 16th Street Baptist Church. The same church that was bombed in 1963 by the KKK, killing four young Black girls and injuring dozens.

Herndon Holiday Homes Tour Dec. 7

The untold ins and outs of the community-based and supported event.

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Roundups

Anyone Care about RA Cap?

Fee break for those on fixed incomes recommended.

Anyone Care about RA Cap?

Giving Back to Task Force One

Firehouse Subs gives firefighters $10,000 toward search tool.

When disasters nearly anywhere in the world trap people in buildings and under rubble, Fairfax County’s Urban Search and Rescue Team is often called to find and rescue them. Now, thanks to a new piece of equipment called a telehandler, the team will be even better prepared for the task. “It looks like a forklift on steroids,” said Battalion Chief Chris Schaff, program manager for the team, called Virginia Task Force One (VA-TF1). “It gives you the ability to pick up stuff and also be able to boom out and reach out over a rubble pile while training.”

Volunteers

Arlington Snapshot: Feeling Like a Firefighter

Caitlyn Suet has climbed up onto the silver platform on the front of the fire engine and now has to figure out how to get down.

Town Unveils Budget Proposal

Proposed budget includes increase in real estate tax rate, town employee salaries.

Town Unveils Budget Proposal

‘I Like the Kind of Man He Is’

Residents flock to Centreville High to hear president Obama speak.

They came, they waited and, more than three hours later, they entered Centreville High’s gym. Hundreds and hundreds of people from the local community, as well as from Loudoun and Prince William counties, stood in humid, 96-degree heat Saturday afternoon, July 15, to see President Barack Obama in person and hear him speak at a grassroots campaign rally.

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