During a visit to my barber this week, I learned that many small business owners and their employees are still hurting financially. Many in shops across our region are longing to see their customers’ faces.
Box-box stores and drive-through restaurants appear to be fine. Now — when they’re struggling the most — we must provide small business owners the tools necessary to help them and their employees win back customers and rebuild their businesses.
Independent news website grows to 110,000 monthly users, 3 million page views annually
As Potomac Local News turned 10 years old on June 10, 2020, the independent local news website has achieved multiple milestones.
In one month, Potomac Local News will celebrate 10 years of publishing local news in our community.
That’s a huge milestone — one that we’re exceptionally proud of.
Every day, the news is filled with the numbers of new coronavirus cases, and grim stories about those who died from the disease.
Local businesses are shuttered and people out of work. Some may never recover from this.
Many of us are now working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But that doesn’t mean we should forget the people in our work lives who make our days better, and our jobs a little easier.
I spent the past four hours scouring the web, looking for the Twitter handles of as many restaurants in our area — from Gainesville to Fredericksburg — that I could find.
Starting tomorrow in Virginia, it’s Restaurant Takeout Week, a chance for residents to support their favorite restaurants during a time when dining rooms are closed in the wake of a growing number of coronavirus cases in the state and in the U.S.
The staff here is trained to greet everyone who comes through the dining room door with hearty “Welcome to Chick-fil-A!” But now that the dining room is closed to the public, that phrase isn’t being used there as much as it was only a few short weeks ago.
The staff now at Chick-fil-A Bristow have been working to serve their customers from the drive-through window and utilizing curbside pick up.
On this day that the president is set to be exonerated after his impeachment trial, I stumbled on to a memory that I didn’t even recall until now.
Mr. Trump, I want you to know that I’ve been impeached, too.
Since we launched our paid subscriber program two years ago, you’ve spoken and we’ve listened.
In February, we’re launching a newly redesigned weekday email newsletter and website at PotomacLocalNews.com that will be easier to read, with even more local content.
Conservatives have momentum after yesterday’s peaceful Second Amendment rights march in Richmond.
Predictions of Antifa, or white supremacists groups infiltrating the march to incite a riot similar to what we saw in Charlottesville in 2017, didn’t happen. Governor Ralph Northam is taking credit for de-escalating what he said could have been a dangerous situation.
