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Join Poolesville Seniors on January 20th  @7pm for next Historic Ag Reserve Properties presentation with local historian Kenny Sholes. The lands around us have played an important part in American history over the last few centuries. The fields we pass through each day have spurred economic development, been the scene of battles, provided escape from the pace of daily life, and brought families together at the dinner table. Dotting this landscape is an array of impressive historic homes – standing as visual reminders of those […]

Join Rande Davis, Monocacy Monocle publisher and historian, on February 3rd at 7 pm for another Mystery History. Rande will reveal how a 1937 WPA project and the Sugarland Ethno-History Project are connected through history.

Artist Susan Due Pearcy, moved to her Barnesville Sugarloaf Studio in 1997 and joined the Countryside Artisans. Susan offers a vast array of original prints, paintings and photographs celebrating nature’s beauty. 

Susan’s art is held internationally in the permanent collection of the Pushkin Museum, Russia, the Chemalier Museum, France, the National Gallery of Art Rare Book Collection, Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Katzen Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Institutes […]

Dean Gray Wroth is an artist and illustrator who grew up in the Poolesville area and attended Poolesville High School.  Her family had been in the area for many generations.  She received a BA in Fine Art from Marietta College in Ohio.  

Living in Poolesville, she worked as a freelance artist during her career, painting portraits, illustrating books, and capturing many of the local historic buildings and scenes with watercolors. She was commissioned to paint large wall murals in the original […]

1/5/22: Town Hall Administrative Offices are closed until further notice due to multiple staff exposures to Covid 19. Staff are working remotely. For permitting services, email [email protected] or call 301-428-8927 as messages will be checked throughout the day. If you have a water emergency please call 240-286-3389. We apologize for the inconvenience. https://www.poolesvillemd.gov/AlertCenter.aspx... 

Virtual Town of Poolesville Public Meetings can be viewed on YouTube at  Town of Poolesville Public Meetings – YouTube 

Don’t forget Community Farmshare a Poolesville […]

Let’s Celebrate Our January Birthdays!!  

• 1/02 Pamela Boe 
• 1/02 Richard Norwood 
• 1/07 Terri Pearson 
• 1/08 Eddie Winovich 
• 1/15 Connie Hanscom 
• 1/17 Pat Civetti 
• 1/22 Jerry Greaney 
• 1/22 Melanie Purdy 
• 1/25 Pam Bent 
• 1/28 Janice Berkland 
• 1/28 George Coakley 
• 1/29 […]
  

Many thanks to Clarence Hickey for his wonderful presentation on the Eastern Monarch Butterfly. We heard about the Monarch’s long trek from Mexico, and its life cycle. The Monarch caterpillar eats only one thing and the loss of their milkweed feeding grounds have contributed to diminishing Monarch populations.  

Mr. Hickey, a retired biologist, became a citizen scientist by collecting and caring for Monarch caterpillars, then tagging, and releasing the eventual butterflies. He showed us how to differentiate male from female butterflies and identify monarchs in the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult stages of life, and ways to help […]

No Celebration Without Legislation 

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Americans celebrated the first official Martin Luther King Day, which is the only federal holiday commemorating an African American, on Monday, January 20, 1986. In 1994, Congress designated the holiday as a National Day of Service – a “Day On, Not a Day Off” to honor the life […]

I.J. Hudson, former long-time WRC-TV reporter,had 32 years of broadcast experience in front of the camera as a television reporter in San Diego, Green Bay, Chicago, and Washington. He reported on stories ranging from politics to public health to technology. He has received six Emmy awards and numerous others for general assignment and feature reporting. He started his broadcasting career after leaving the Navy, when there really was “film at 11.”  He became the […]

On Friday January 14, 2022, the Biden administration announced that Americans can begin ordering free at-home Covid rapid tests starting Wednesday January 19, 2022. These tests can be ordered using the website COVIDTests.gov. A phone number will also be made available for those without internet access.  

Tests should ship within 7-12 days of placing the order, meaning the earliest you will receive a test kit is the end of January. The site will […]