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Helping the Needy in Montgomery County
Montgomery County Muslim Foundation provides monthly food distribution.
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Bioterrorism Specialists Planned for Local Jurisdictions
A combination of federal grants and state funds means local health departments will receive one epidemiologist and one bioterrorism coordinator.
Bioterrorism Specialists Planned for Local Jurisdictions
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Letter: Moderate Voices Exist
I write this letter in response to David Speck’s commentary here in Opinion (Aug. 16) regarding dominance of the Democrat party in Alexandria City.
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‘Heroes Walk To Fly’
Group provides airline tickets to military families visiting injured loved one.
A family receives the devastating call that their son, serving in the Afghanistan, had life-threatening injuries from an IED and was being air-lifted to Walter Reed National Medical Military Center. They were told to start driving to the nearest airport. The hospital staff would do what they could to keep their son alive until they got there, even though it was a five-hour flight.
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Column: “Scanxiety”
The meaning being: the anxiety one feels waiting for, and awaiting the results of, a diagnostic scan.
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Week in Herndon
Town of Herndon Receives Aaa Rating Moody’s Investors Service has moved the rating outlook to stable and affirmed the Aaa rating on four states and 37 local governments, including the Town of Herndon. This follows the move to a stable outlook on the federal government’s Aaa rating, which occurred on July 18.
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Brief: 2013 Fairfax Library Foundation Scholarships Awarded
Nine individuals chosen to receive scholarships.
From a pool of many qualified applicants, Fairfax Library Foundation has selected nine individuals to aid financially in their educational pursuits. Fairfax Library Foundation’s Undergraduate Scholarship winners are Matthew Albert Beer, Thien Mai, Katherine C. Pietras, Ingrid Thais Quiroz, Claudia Rojas and Laura Ung, receiving awards of $1,000 each. These awardees are in the midst of pursuing or will begin pursuing undergraduate degrees as of fall, 2013.
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Letter: Much Still To Be Done
The Rising Hope Mission request for school supplies and backpacks (August 9, 2012) was responded to by a total of 25 different persons, churches and organizations. We ultimately were able to serve 377 children who attend 20 schools in this area, from ages 5 years to 19 years old.
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News Brief: Election Judges Needed
Montgomery County’s Board of Elections is seeking registered voters to serve as election judges at polling places for the Gubernatorial Primary Election to be held on June 24. In accordance with the Election Code, to serve in this paid position on Election Day or during Early Voting, an election judge must be registered to vote in the State of Maryland. They must also be able to speak, read, and write the English language, and while acting as a judge must not hold, or be a candidate for, public or party office. In addition, election judges may not serve as a campaign manager for a candidate or as treasurer for any campaign financial entity.
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Town Council Conducts First Meeting of New Term
Body reveiws plans for new restaurant, adopts official banking sponsor
Town Council Conducts First Meeting of New Term
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Bank Robber Receives 18 Years
Kentucky man sentenced for robbing two Loudoun banks in 2006.
Bank Robber Receives 18 Years
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History: George Washington Started a World War
Few individuals in history can be said to have caused a world war; however, George Washington could lay claim to being one of them. In 1753 the French alliance with Indian tribes in the Ohio region had become a serious threat to the British colonies, especially Virginia.
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Wexton to Take on Comstock
Moderate state senator did not get pulled to the left in primary.
State Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D-33) made a name for herself in Northern Virginia as a tough-as-nails prosecutor, including one case that grabbed national headlines involving a woman who persuaded her boyfriend to kill her father with a samurai sword. During her campaign for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, she never lost that sense of law-and-order grit, refusing to be pulled to the left as other candidates were calling for President Trump to be impeached.
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What To Serve A Lord Provost?
Mayor opens home, serves dinner to distinguished Scottish guest.
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Citizens Meet the Candidates
Evening gives citizens chance to see candidates' personalities at work.
Citizens Meet the Candidates
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‘This Is My Solemn Vow ...’
Potomac United Methodist Church holds Renewal of Vows ceremony.
When Peggy Conn suggested to her husband of 62 years that they participate in a Renewal of Marriage Vows ceremony with other couples from the Potomac United Methodist Church, her husband Dick responded, “I had no idea our marriage had expired.”