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Maryland School Buildings Closed, But Student Learning Continues

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Silver Diner at Rio and Real Food for Kids Increase Weekday Meal Giveaway

More than 6,000 free meals provided for area schoolchildren and their families in need.

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Earth Day Is April 22

Special Earth Day Address from His Holiness Pope Francis to be included in Earth Day.

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Potomac Home Sales: March, 2020

In March, 2020, 49 Potomac homes sold between $2,079,000-$593,000.

Potomac Home Sales: March, 2020

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Banks to the Rescue

Small businesses wait for banks to get federal money from the Paycheck Protection Program.

Like many business owners across Northern Virginia, Cyrille Brenac is still waiting to hear back from his bank about his application to the Paycheck Protection Program. That’s the $350 billion program that was part of the $2.2 trillion stimulus law designed to offer money to small businesses who can demonstrate they are keeping their employees. For Brenac, who lives in the Cherrydale neighborhood of Arlington, the money would help him rehire about 50 employees of his two French restaurants he laid off when the economy abruptly shut down as the result of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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This Week in Coronavirus in Maryland

Surging unemployment claims to mandatory face masks: weekly synopsis of local news on pandemic.

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News Briefs: Potomac

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Obituary: Mary Ragan “Polly” Webster, 97

Potomac Almanac co-founder, founding member of St. Francis Episcopal Church.

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Gaithersburg Book Festival Selects Poetry Finalists

Churchill student among finalists in Gaithersburg Book Festival contest.

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Working from Home with Children

Juggling the role of parent and employee.

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