Salma Hasan Ali Bridges Divides with Her Personal Stories
Sharing stories, making connections.
Potomac’s Salma Hasan Ali has learned “the power of sharing personal stories.” “Stories humanize,” she said.
Contest: Name the Mini
New miniature horse will debut at Potomac Community Center Marketplace.
Squeals on Wheels, Potomac's traveling petting zoo, has recently acquired a tiny miniature horse.
Whitman Grad Helping in Peru
Sacred Valley Project promotes academic, personal growth for Peruvian girls.
Sacred Valley Project promotes academic, personal growth for Peruvian girls.
Potomac Real Estate: Top Sales in February 2012
In February 2012, 22 Potomac homes sold between $1,950,000-$380,000.
Potomac Real Estate: Top Sales in February 2012
Easter Bunny’s Four-Legged Friends in Potomac
An Easter Egg Hunt for dogs was held Saturday, April 7 to benefit the Lucky Dog Animal Rescue.
Farmer Opposes County Bid Procedure
Farmer Sophia Maravell, who is spearheading Brickyard Educational Farm (BEF) on the Montgomery County schools land along Brickyard Road in Potomac, stated concerns to Montgomery County this week about the county’s acceptance of a bid for a sublease leading to the construction of parking lots and soccer fields on the site.
Potomac Calendar April 11
To have community events listed free in The Potomac Almanac, send e-mail to almanac@connectionnewspapers.com. Deadline is Thursday at noon for the following week’s paper. Photos and artwork encouraged. Call 703-778-9412.
Thrift Sale Benefits Church Outreach, Local Charities
Area residents peruse hundreds of items for sale at the annual St. Francis Episcopal Church this past weekend, with proceeds going to the parish’s outreach program and other local charities.
Home Work
‘Why Is My Home Rotting Away?’
"Mike, why is my house rotting away!?" This is the kind of question brimming with alarm and horror that builders and remodelers often hear. "How old is your house?" I asked. "It’s only 15 years old." "Ray, your house is not rotting away, but the skin of your house might be."
In Potomac Village
To better serve their customer base, Village Settlements, Inc., and its affiliated law firm of Savitz, Parker, Hollman, Simon, Hahn & DeLisi, LLC, have opened an office in the Semmes Building located at 10220 River Road, Suite 207, in Potomac.
Letter: Help Maintain Neglected Fields
Dear MSI Executive Director and Board Members: This open letter is asking you to hold back and defer signing the sublease for the Brickyard Road School site.
Parents Seek Answers at ‘Facebook 101’
‘Facebook 101’ draws scores to seminar at Churchill.
Facebook’s goal is to make the world more open and connected. But if millions of people are connected, “it’s hard to think of a population that big without any crime,” said Brooke Oberwetter, of Facebook.
Bells Mill Students Take First in State
Next: Odyssey of the Mind World Finals in Iowa.
A team of third and fourth graders will represent Bells Mill Elementary School at the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals in Iowa this May.
Editorial: On Funding the Silver Line
Commonwealth will collect the dividends, but refuses to invest; Northern Virginia pays.
Northern Virginia localities should together commission a study now to determine how much growth is stimulated by the opening of the Metro stations in Tysons and along the toll road out to Dulles, how many new jobs created, quantify how much that growth leads to increased income and sales tax, and how much revenue (taxes) would get shipped off to Commonwealth coffers.
Field Notes: Remembering Margaret Lundy Dell
On Feb. 1, my mother-in-law passed away. What’s remarkable is that she was a woman not only of exceptional years, 103, but also quite memorable.