The Observer Newspapers

Close to Home by Christopher L. Moore

Everybody Loves a Fish
When I was a boy, my sister and I were like pied pipers for animals. We were always coming home with boxes of kittens we found abandoned, cut little puppies that needed to be nursed back to health, along with birds, ducks, horses, snakes, mice and the occasional human.
October 10, 2008

A Bailout We Can All Love
$700 BILLION? Really? That's what it's come to?
October 3, 2008

So Much for Citizen Input
The Town Council's 4-3 vote Tuesday night to reject the Diamond Properties plan to build a hotel at the corner of Elden and Monroe streets in downtown Herndon was a vote against progress, but more importantly, it was a vote against the will of the public.
September 26, 2008

Hang On. Wall Street Ahead
The turmoil on Wall Street this week has been shocking. News starts to spread about impending doom facing a company that only a few days ago was widely regarded as in good shape, and the next thing you know the company for whom impending doom was forecast is on stable ground but another company you never thought about is vaporized.
September 19, 2008

Council's Private Meetings Fail Herndon Citizens
The Herndon Town Council this week held its second closed meeting in a month to discuss what it can do to control loiterers on public streets in relation to the town's unofficial day labor market, particularly near Elden Street and Alabama Drive.
September 5, 2008

2007 Close to Home


Search Tips

 

© Copyright 2000-2008 The Herndon Publishing Company, Inc.
Call The Observer at 703-437-5886 or e-mail the editor.