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Dumfries, Va. –– More than 60 people had a paranormal experience at the Dumfries Community Center on Saturday.

The Weems-Botts Museum presented “Paranormal Research 101,” where Krystal Porras, founder and director of 3:33 AM Paranormal Research, shared the differences between “paranormal investigators” and “ghost hunters.”

A free community resource, the PotomacLocal.com’s calendar contains great ideas to keep you busy right where you live.

Start this weekend off at Hoops Fest, where you can check out local basketball talent dunking for a cause.  Tickets to the event at C.D. Hylton High School are $10 and proceeds from the event will benefit a local Afghanistan Veteran who’s been paralyzed from the waist down.

Surviving in post-earthquake Japan is about getting used to nerve-racking aftershocks, trying to block out the devastation left behind from the disaster and feeling skittish about reports of radiation leakage, says one Japanese resident.

Rick Cogley is from Pittsburg and moved to Japan and now runs a computer firm. His sister, Karen, lives in Dale City and says she is thankful Rick has survived the strongest earthquake on record in Japan. But living in the earthquake and tsunami – ravaged country has its challenges.

I love to watch wild animals on television and see them at the zoo.

Firefighters in Woodbridge shaved their heads to help find a cure for childhood cancer.

Occoquan Woodbridge Lorton VFD held their sixth-annual St. Baldrick’s event on Friday, where 52 volunteer fire and rescue crew members, including Prince William Supervisor Martin Nohe, shaved their heads for a cause.

A free community resource, the PotomacLocal.com’s calendar at is packed with great ideas to keep you and your family busy all week long.

This weekend, you have several options to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a little early.  Be sure to catch the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manassas, which starts at Quarry Road and Prescott Avenue at 11am on Saturday morning.

Serious it is.  Encouragement from parents, our children do not accept.  Ask I must.  Why?