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Building Girls' Self-Esteem

Girl Power! holds county-wide conference at the Reston Teen Center.

Building Girls' Self-Esteem

Jean Cryor returns to Annapolis

Incumbent anxious to get back to work

Jean Cryor returns to Annapolis

James Brady Speaks at Madison

Former White House press secretary and gun control activist kicks off Disability Awareness Week.

James Brady Speaks at Madison

Clusters Ponder Life Without RELAC

Two dozen people with RELAC learned about quiet central air conditioning at an informational meeting last week.

Clusters Ponder Life Without RELAC

Students Plan Own Town

Eighth-grade students presented hypothetical New Town plans to county and local officials.

Students Plan Own Town

Remembering Annie MacRae Stapp

Vienna resident and GI bride dies.

Remembering Annie MacRae Stapp

Sitting at the Table

Committee hears both sides of the proposed fire changes.

Sitting at the Table

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Alexandria: Port City Playhouse Stages ‘Fool for Love’

Play is an exploration of pleasures, perils and consequences of sexual chemistry.

Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" will be staged by Port City Playhouse from Feb. 26 to March 12 in Alexandria.

Alexandria: Tucker Modified Calendar Yields a Win-Win

Intersessions provide remediation or enhancement.

The school year is just half over. Rene Paschal, principal at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School, says the school's modified school calendar has worked well for everyone from school children to teachers to parents.

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Cabrera: Automobile Detective of Alexandria

The case of the blinking AVS light.

Blink. Blink. The hood of the 2007 Toyota Highlander is propped open. Cristoper Cabrera, certified technician at Jack Taylor's Alexandria Toyota Scion, is sitting in the driver's seat, a bulky black machine on his lap, scanning the codes for a blinking AVS light. "It will give me some ideas on where to look."

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Snowstorm Q&A: Lake Braddock's Jones Had First Snow Driving Experience

Snowstorm Q&A with Lake Braddock catcher Caroline Jones.

New Principal at Potomac Elementary

Educator plans to incorporate more technology, keep parents informed.

Ever since she was an elementary school student, Catherine Allie knew that she wanted to be an educator.

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Alexandria People at Work: Every Kitchen’s a Challenge

Shawna Dillon's mother let her pick out the furniture for her bedroom and rearrange it when she was 7 years old and, "I've always, always wanted to be an interior designer."

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Alexandria: Calhoun Hams Celebrating 35 Years At Farmers’ Market

Tom Calhoun first opened his Calhoun Hams/Meat Market in 1980 at the Alexandria Farmers’ Market at Market Square in Old Town. It continues as a mainstay of the Saturday market today.

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Potomac: In the Kitchen with Terri

Local cooking school offers classes in preparing elegant and seasonal meals.

Creamy gruyere cheese flows through a box grater followed by long shards of russet potatoes. Both are piled on a platter. The potatoes gain a deep crunch after sizzling in hot oil, the cheese melts on top of the potato crust and the concoction is topped with grassy, deeply green asparagus. Such is the beginning of an asparagus frittata at Terri's Table.

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Langley Senior Aims to Engage Young Voters

Swetha Ramesh invited to present nonprofit at Harvard.

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, Langley High School senior Swetha Ramesh traveled to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. where she was invited to present her 501(c)(3) nonprofit SILVER (Students for Increased Legislation on Voter Engagement through Registration) as part of a panel discussion on millennial political engagement.

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Reston-centric Gifts Found at Lake Anne

Special gifts for the special people and pets in your life.

Imagine small shops where shopkeepers know everyone by name, catching a glimpse of neighbors enjoying a leisurely hot drink through the window of the local cafe, locals enjoying the view of the water at the plaza.

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Lorton: South County to Host Robinson in 6A North Semifinals

Q&A: RB Ramsey enjoys father’s gumbo on Thanksgiving.

South County will host Robinson at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday in the 6A North region semifinals.

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University Drive in Fairfax Going on a Diet

It will have narrower travel lanes, center turn lane and bike lanes.

University Drive is going on a diet, but not the kind involving food. Instead, new markings will narrow the road’s travel lanes to make room for a center turning lane, plus a bike lane on each side.

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Alexandria: Water Taxi Must Go On

Rain or shine.

Blast, blast … BLAST! Captain Alex Skubel is backing out the first water taxi of the day from the Port of Alexandria. "How many on board?"