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GOTV Campaign Focuses on Immigrants

Encouraging neighborhoods of naturalized citizens to vote.

Their front doors are decorated with jack-o’-lanterns and spooky ghosts, and sometimes with oil lamps or Rangoli designs from the recent Hindu Festival of Lights.

It's Election Day: Vienna, Oakton Vote

It's Election Day: Vienna, Oakton Vote

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Thousands Cast Ballots at Great Falls Library

Fairfax County expected thousands of voters to cast their ballot at the Great Falls Library off Georgetown Pike yesterday.

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Tuesday at Langley High: School is Out and Voting is In

Election 2016

Fairfax County Public Schools were closed for Election Day, but people woke up early to vote at Langley High School off of Georgetown Pike yesterday.

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Herndon Votes 2016: Election Day ‘Block Party’

"… everyone has been pretty upbeat and friendly. Too bad the whole election wasn’t more like this.” — Keith Magnusson

Mayor Lisa Merkel was on hand to welcome the first wave of voters at the Herndon Community Center, although she was not the first one to show up at the front doors.

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Friends of Library Celebrates 25 Years

$2,500 donated to refurbish library meeting room.

Twenty-five years ago, Karin Currie had the foresight to launch the first Friends of the Library Chapter in Montgomery County at the Potomac Library.

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‘Dolphin Daydream’

Wayside students create “Art For the Sky.”

Every Wayside Elementary School student functioned as a critical piece in a massive work of art on the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 3.

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Vienna: It's Election Day: Vienna, Oakton Vote

November 8, 2016

As long as you are in line by 7 p.m., you will be able to vote. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you are planning to vote on your way home from work, give yourself plenty of travel time. Election officials want you to keep in mind that you need to be in line by 7 p.m at your poll location in order to cast your vote.

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Built-ins as Works of Art

Transforming the ordinary.

If there's a juncture where craftsmanship enters home remodeling, it's the “built-in.”

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Halloween Magic

Halloween Magic

County Notebook

Board Loosens Signage Restrictions; Hearings on Ballston Graveyard

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McLean: Election Viewpoints 2016

Who did you vote for and why?

By 7 a.m., 361 people had submitted a ballot. The high school was the polling location for both the Chain Bridge and Langley precincts in McLean and the county’s Office of Elections expected nearly 6,000 voters to pass through its doors by the time it closed at 7 p.m.

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Shifting Gears

Bumpy road ahead for Capital Bikeshare expansion in Northern Virginia.

It takes a little over two hours to bike from downtown Washington D.C. to the Reston. For the Capital Bikeshare, it’s a trip that’s taken six years.

“Flourishing After 55”

“Flourishing After 55” from Arlington Office of Senior Adult Programs for Nov. 13-18.

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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You ...

Some voters doubt whether they will gain by voting.

Jim Moore says the election this year has caused dissent and divisiveness, even in his barber shop.