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Arlington Little League excited about resuming practices during Phase 2 reopening 06/15/2020 04:30am • As Northern Virginia begins Phase Two of its gradual reopening, youth sports are playing a key role in helping kids get through the coronavirus pandemic. So what does that look like for children in the region, once teams can resume practicing the week of June 15? Arlington Little League chief Library of Congress commissions 10 music pieces inspired by COVID-19 06/15/2020 12:35am • Nathalie Joachim performs for the Library of Congress. (Erin Patrice O’Brien) The coronavirus pandemic has shaped our lives like few world events ever have. Starting Monday, the Library of Congress will premiere 10 commissions of new music on its website as well as Facebook, Twitter and Explore! Children's Museum launches interactive website 06/13/2020 01:52pm • Keeping up with the kids may be more challenging this summer but there's a new online resource that will allow them to explore activities from museums all across the world, including the Miami Children's Museum and the City Museum of Manhattan. The Children's Museum in the District is quite famil Hundreds of parents and their children rally in support of Black Lives Matter 06/13/2020 12:18pm • Using the hashtag #YouthSpeakUp, hundreds of parents and their children gathered in the District Saturday for a discussion and a walk from Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue to Black Lives Matter Plaza near Lafayette Square. The event was headed by Dionne Johnson Calhoun, who said she didn't th Self-care for parents in a pandemic: Finding time when you don't have it 06/13/2020 04:01am • Parents know the drill: Put on your own oxygen mask before helping your children put on theirs. It's so true, and yet it's become a cliched metaphor for parental self-care. If there was ever a time that it's especially true, it's during this now months-long pandemic and our added ongoing conce What Loudoun County schools plan to do next school year 06/12/2020 11:13pm • The head of Loudoun County Public Schools presented the school board with plans for the next school year as Virginia moves forward with its coronavirus recovery plans. As school system submits plans and strategies for dealing with the public health risk of COVID-19, Superintendent Eric Williams t 'Black history is America's history': Montgomery County student calls for change in curriculum 06/12/2020 05:25pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland, middle school student called attention to how she believed American history could be better taught in the school system. "The dreadful death of George Floyd was a huge eye-opener to me," Tiara McDonald, a student at Herbert Hoover Middle School in Potomac, told the Hair Cuttery, other salons closed permanently in the District 06/12/2020 10:30am • The Hair Cuttery at 1645 Connecticut Ave., NW is closing down for good. (Courtesy Google Street View) The Hair Cuttery in Dupont Circle and the nearby Salon Cielo, both on Connecticut Avenue NW, along with two Bubbles salons on Capitol Hill have closed permanently. Parent company Creative Hai Coping with loss of sports due to COVID-19 changes 06/11/2020 07:55pm • Some sports fans who miss games are experiencing actual grief and bereavement, according to a D.C.-area counselor who offers advice for coping with the loss. "The lack of sports, not being able to watch sports on the TV or play sports in our communities … has caused a huge loss and certainly so Hogan: Indoor dining to resume with restrictions on Friday 06/11/2020 07:49am • Citing a decrease in coronavirus numbers based on reopening metrics, indoor dining in Maryland may resume on Friday, with restrictions and capacity. Gov. Larry Hogan said in an update Wednesday that starting Friday at 5 p.m., indoor dining at restaurants can start at 50% capacity, with strict pub Long list of precautions, but Northern Va. day care centers to open Friday 06/10/2020 01:05pm • As Northern Virginia enters Phase Two of the lifting of coronavirus restrictions on Friday, day care centers in the area will be allowed to open their doors. But, they will have a long list of new health regulations to follow. "It is definitely going to be not quite what the children were used Md. opioid-related overdose deaths rise slightly, but Prince George's sees deaths more than double 06/10/2020 12:51pm • Opioid-related intoxication deaths for Maryland counties and Baltimore city between Jan. and March 2020. (Courtesy Maryland Department of Health) Maryland saw a slight rise in opioid-related deaths over the first quarter of 2020, preliminary data from the state's health department show, together Young athletes in Northern Virginia to (carefully) take field Friday 06/10/2020 09:56am • After almost three months of restrictions related to COVID-19, young athletes and their parents will be able to expend that built-up energy, Friday. As Northern Virginia enters Phase Two of Gov. Ralph Northam's plan to reopen the state after the March shutdown due to the novel coronavirus, youth Maryland's abbreviated road tests keep drivers on closed course 06/08/2020 04:15pm • Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration has resumed road tests for new drivers, only they don't have to leave the parking lot. In mid-March, Maryland, like Virginia, suspended the administration of road tests out of concern that having a testing agent in the car with a new driver could spread the 'What's happening?' How to help your children in stressful times 06/08/2020 04:00pm • Do you think your kids are stressed? A local psychiatrist offers advice. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/fizkes) Helping children process current events during turbulent times should involve lots of questions from calm parents, according to a Northern Virginia psychiatrist. "First of all, you must