Poolesville Seniors thanks these following 2022 Corporate Sponsors who made it possible to continue our mission to help area adults stay physically, intellectually, and socially young.
PLATINUM +
Edwin & Winsome S. Brown Foundation
GOLD
Gail Lee Homes
Jim Brown – Turning Point Real Estate
SILVER
Colonial Opticians, Don Hoffacker Air Conditioning and Heating, Poolesville Family […]
Let’s Celebrate Our May Birthdays!!
Do you know about the Plant an Extra Row initiative started by Sustainable Barnesville in cooperation with WUMCO in 2020? The advent of the COVID 19 pandemic was the impetus for this project which encourages and supports those with backyard farms and gardens to “plant an extra row” of commonly grown veggies to donate to a local food bank.
As a very local community initiative, Plant an Extra Row supports […]
Get outdoors, learn about local wildlife and contribute to science!
Calling naturalists, nature lovers and citizen scientists of all ages! You are invited to join the four-day City Nature Challenge between April 29th and May 8th. People in the Washington DC metro area and around the world will be participating in this global citizen science event to document urban biodiversity. Participants will be looking for signs of life in […]
Many thanks to Joyce Breiner and Poolesville Green, Inc. for the thoughtful and informative presentation on the science, consequences, and solutions of Climate Change. Climate Change is not weather, but it does have devastating effects on the weather.
Warming surface and ocean temperatures are causing a decrease in sea ice and an increase in permafrost thawing, an increase in heat waves and heavy precipitation, and decreased water resources in semi-arid regions. The […]
If you have never heard of Highland Beach, located just south and east of Annapolis, you should know that it is the first African American Municipality incorporated in Maryland, in 1922. 
The history of this small beach town, with street names honoring leading African Americans like Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langston, and Washington, began in 1892. Maj. Charles Douglass, Civil War veteran and the […]
Long before David Therriault and Sandy Wright, the proprietors of Locals and Riverworks, set in motion their ambitious plans to open two of Poolesville’s most highly anticipated ventures, a teenaged David was forming the cornerstone of these endeavors by spending hours steeped in stillness, abstractly studying his surroundings.
While still in high school David worked at a garden center near his family’s Potomac home. […]
Mahjong is back on Thursdays at Speer Hall (behind Poolesville Presbyterian) 10 am – 12:30 pm
April 30th – Sugarloaf Citizen’s Assoc. 14th Annual Plant Swap – Linden Farm – 10:00am – 12 Noon – Buy, Sell, Swap or Give Away.
April 30th – Rebuilding Together / Christmas in April. Join Poolesville area churches to help with necessary home repairs for a […]
More than two centuries before the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, British forces captured Washington and burned the Capitol during the War of 1812. Join local writer Steve Vogel in-person on May 24th at 7pm
Join Katie Longbrake, Executive Director of WUMCO Help on May 5th at 7 pm to hear more about this multi-services entity, that has been serving […]