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PIG POINT ARTIFACTS
The Capital: " By the time Capt. John Smith rowed up the Patuxent River in the summer of 1608, indigenous people had been gathering at present-day Pig Point for thousands of years. Had Smith gone another couple miles up river, he might have come upon what Anne Arundel County's Lost Towns Project has uncovered - a mother lode of evidence indicating generations of settlement, fishing and hunting on a knoll overlooking Jug Bay."
DULLES TOLL ROAD LAWSUIT
Fairfax Times: "Two Northern Virginia residents are suing the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority in federal court, claiming it is unconstitutional for the authority to raise revenues for the Dulles Metrorail extension through the Dulles Toll Road. The authority is using bonds backed by toll revenue to pay for a large portion of the $6 billion project. John Corr, a Great Falls resident, and John Grigsby, a Hillsboro resident, are the two named plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday."
STINKY MEETING
wtop.com/ap: "A Virginia congressman is hosting a forum on how to manage the smelly menace of the brown marmorated stink bug. Scientists have yet to find a way to control the spread of the stink bug, a non-native species that has no predators in the U.S. and has spread its wings from Pennsylvania throughout the Mid-Atlantic."
