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From Frank... I had a great birthday and enjoyed my week on Cape Cod. Many thanks for the birthday wishes! I am not sure why I felt so strongly that turning 60 was a milestone, but as the day approached, I felt a real sense of gratitude. I remembered that my paternal grandmother died at 59, just a day after my sixth birthday, while visiting the Vatican. The very last picture of her was taken in the colonnade of Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. She looks happy that she finally made it to...

From Frank...For all the Village News, Events, and Program for the rest of June 2026 please find it right here. Today is Juneteenth which is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War....

Our Village won the Washington Area Village Exchange’s Founders Award for our We Are Your Neighbors project! Thanks so much to all who participated in the project. Congratulations to the 2025 Founders Award Recipients! Valley Village Harrisonburg, VA Neighborhood Companions Baltimore, MD Cleveland & Woodley Park Village Washington, DC The WAVE Founders Award was created in honor of the organization's founders, Virginia Hodgkinson, Miriam Kelty, and Andy Mollison, and recognizes...