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Tony Snow: Husband, Father, Neighbor
Waynewood neighbors remember their friend.

TELEVISION PERSONALITY, talk show host, presidential speech writer, editorial commentator, and White House press secretary -- Robert Anthony Snow was all those thing. He was also neighbor, husband, father, band leader, sports enthusiast and just all around guy "Tony" Snow. It was in the latter roles that most of his Waynewood neighbors in Mount Vernon District remember the affable but stiletto witted, intellectual, unabashed conservative former Bush administration press secretary remember their friend who succumbed to colon cancer on July 12 at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 53. Read more...

State Explains Waterfowl Hunting
Hunting along Dyke Marsh is permitted.

DYKE MARSH Wildlife Preserve has been and will continue to be off limits to waterfowl hunting enthusiasts. It's river border is a different matter. Those points were made quite clear during a meeting at Belle View Elementary School last Wednesday night hosted by the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) at the request of four Northern Virginia members of the State General Assembly. Read more...

Scout Completes Project
Boy Scout builds shelters for wildlife.

DESPITE THE intense heat and overwhelming humidity, 13-year-old Cole Rosenberg and a crew of 45 to 50 volunteers spent Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, building brush pile shelters for the wildlife at Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria. In the hopes of gaining Eagle Scout status in Boy Scouts of America, Cole began organizing a project that would help out the surrounding community. Read more...

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News
Transportation Fix 'Unlikely'
Hyland Proposes Looking At Meals Tax
Encouraging Turbines, Solar Panels

Sports
Summer Swim: Everybody into the Pool
SSSAS Baseball Downed in IAC Final
Saints Lose in VISAA Semifinal

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New Old Stuff
Red Noses For Relief
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Getting To Know ... Susan F. Fremit
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