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Opinion
Green Living: Put Some Green into Your Labor Day
It's the Labor Day weekend — time for picnics, parades and end-of-summer fun. Here are five easy ways to add some green to your Labor Day celebration: Cut back on holiday shopping. ...
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The Neighborhood Files
Grandpa's Pie
It's blackberry season in Maryland and I just brought home a bucket of freshly picked berries. Despite a healthy dose of soap and water, my fingernails are stained purple. Looking at my...
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Opinion
Tadpoles and Burnt Cheese
"I've never fallen in a creek before," my 10-year-old son informed me after a day of camp at Locust Grove Nature Center. A mud-stained T-shirt and shorts bore witness to his words. Yet ...
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Arts
Surviving Germantown Glory
If you're looking for a great firework display this Fourth of July and don't want to deal with the crowds in D.C., Montgomery County is hosting the Germantown Glory fireworks display at t...
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The Neighborhood Files
Independence Day Expected to Draw Major Crowds to National Mall
If you are tempted to head downtown Monday to watch the country's most spectacular fireworks light up the National Mall, plan to take the metro. Parking will be all-but-impossible in ...
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News
VIDEO: 'They Died That We May Live Free'
It was a somber ceremony at Christman Park in Gaithersburg as veterans, family members and city officials commorated Memorial Day through song, prayer and oratory. Lt. Gen. Harry E. ...