Mike Salmon
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 12
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Homemade Ice Cream Sales from a Hometown Bike (opens the original)
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Boom in the Middle of the Night September 17, 2026 Creativity runs in Ally Kirkpatrick’s blood, flowing into her ice cream business “Fabled Ice Cream,” and into an ice cream bicycle she rides around events selling pints out of the ice box contraption that’s part of the bike. Ally’s bike is an “Icicle Tricycle,” model they make in Portland, OR but she managed to find a used one at a good price and put some work into it. “I thought it would be cool, I found one for $800 on Facebook Marketplace,” s
Crossing Guards Are on Everyone’s Radar (opens the original)
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With all the budget commotion involving crossing guards at high schools in Fairfax County and then a teen fatality in the City of Fairfax, some parents took matters into their own hands and got crossing flags for some pedestrian crossing paths in the name of safety. The flags are posted near some crosswalks for students to carry as they cross the road. “It enhances the safety,” said Tamara O’Neil, a parent that has two children in the county school system - one at West Springfield High School an
9/11 at the Connection as I Remember it (opens the original)
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The morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 started out to be a warm late summer day and as a reporter for the Connection Newspapers, it was a deadline day. The newspaper had a full staff and we put out weekly newspapers for several communities across Fairfax County as well as Alexandria, Arlington and Potomac, MD. Our office was out in Tysons Corner, which it was known as back then, in a one-story building on land that is now Tysons II. As always, I had to hit Starbucks before jumping on I-495 t
Mount Vernon Bike Path Detours Away from Long Bridge (opens the original)
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This summer, cyclists along the Mount Vernon Trail encountered a detour on the northern end of the trail at Gravelly Point due to the Long Bridge Project where impacts include a temporary bypass and detour. Beginning July 1, the bypass opened, shifting riders closer to the GW Parkway, with a well-marked maze of fences and cement barriers. It will be in place for the next few years. Cyclist Trent Bailey captured it all in a video he posted on social media to lessen the confusion, calling it a "ma
Dolly Parton’s Legacy Includes 1975 Show at (Old) Mount Vernon High School (opens the original)
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As the nation mourns country music great Dolly Parton, some of the residents in Mount Vernon feel a little closer to this country music legend because some 51 years ago, Parton put on a show at Mount Vernon High School with a few other country musicians to put the school on the map. Allen Case-Sipes was at the Mount Vernon High School show. “I saw Dolly a few times around there, she played a few of the high schools,” he said. At Mount Vernon, “she played in like a cafeteria,” he recalled. Sipes
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