Protect your identity by shredding your sensitive paper documents at Tackett’s Mill Center’s Free Safety Shred in Lake Ridge on Saturday, May 16, hosted by the merchants of the shopping center.

“We are very excited to bring a shred truck to Tackett’s Mill,” said Nancy Kyme, CFO for the owner of Tackett’s Mill Center. “We want to give our community the peace of mind of knowing their sensitive information is being disposed of in a safe way.”


Steve’s Auto Repair & Tire gave back to the community recently when they partnered with Tom Mitchell, head of the StillBrave Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Mitchell started the foundation after losing his young daughter to childhood cancer.


When it comes stories and content we publish on Potomac Local, that content must pass a few tests. The first and most important is the “who cares” test. Will our readers care about this story? Does it impact them, their family, or their livelihood?

Then we ask, “is it local?” This means does the story or event  that could be content for our site have anything to do with where our readers live, work, or play.


Vince Hughes is the Executive Vice President of Finance at Sequoia Management located in Chantilly.

“Sequoia Management is a property management company that manages commercial office buildings, commercial office associations, office parks, and we manage residential condominiums, townhouses, and single family neighborhoods,” said Hughes.


A display ad unit that links to your Facebook or Twitter pages — it gives you the opportunity to have a new ad on Potomac Local any time you want one by simply updating your Facebook or Twitter accounts. The reader is taken to either your Facebook or Twitter page after they click on your ad.

While we can count the many benefits of using the Facebook Updater ad, we’d rather focus on why it doesn’t work for some customers.


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Science is our natural world. Technology means computers and smartphones, but it goes back to television, radio, microscopes, telegraph, telescopes, the compass, and even the first wheel. Engineering is designing and building, roads, and bridges, but it also tackles today’s challenges of transportation, global warming and environment-friendly machines, appliances and systems.


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