🥂 Best of Potomac Awards Party is Saturday. Potomac Lifestyle’s cocktail-attire celebration brings tastings, music, and vendor showcases to Cogir of Potomac, with ticket proceeds benefiting the Red Cross and Salvation Army. See tickets and details

📚 Sunday library hours are changing. Potomac Library will no longer be open on Sundays as MCPL shuffles resources. Rockville Memorial is now Potomac’s closest Sunday option among nine MCPL branches still open. See the details

🏛️ Historic-site grants are back. Montgomery Preservation’s Wayne M. Goldstein Action Fund is offering up to $5,000 for research, designation, restoration, or legal defense tied to local historic sites. Apply before Feb. 28

🎤 Open Mic Night returns to The Writer’s Center. A night of prose, poetry, and spoken word where 20 locals share 4–5 minutes of fresh work every other Wednesday. Plan to read or listen

🎭 More summer camp registrations open. Imagination Stage opens sign ups for theater & filmmaking weeks and District DabbleLab has themed arts & crafts camps for kids. Browse camps at Imagination Stage and District DabbleLab

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MoCo Monday Ride at Muddy Branch | 6–8pm @ Muddy Branch Greenway Trail
A beginner-friendly mountain-bike ride on Muddy Branch with regroup stops, built for riders with basic MTB skills who want singletrack without the ego. Register in link 🚵

Rockville Science Tuesday Lecture Series: Dinosaur Park with John-Paul Hodnett | 1–2pm @ Virtual
Rockville Science Tuesday brings local paleontologist John-Paul Hodnett to Zoom for a tour of Prince George’s Dinosaur Park, where Cretaceous fossils meet modern conservation. Free registration in link 🦖

Crafternoon | 5–6pm @ Potomac Library
Miss Lisa turns the library into a mini makers’ studio, with kid-led crafts and freeform art play that’s more process than perfection for ages 3–10. 🎨

West Montgomery County Citizens Association Monthly Meeting | 7:15–8:15pm @ Potomac Library
Road salt keeps us upright but turns local streams briny, and Salt Watch director Samantha Puckett explains smarter salting and how Potomac neighbors can help. 🧂

Cabin John Middle School PTA Fundraiser | 11am–9:30pm @ California Tortilla, Cabin John Village
Turn taco night into school support by eating in or taking out where 25% of sales goes straight to the CJMS PTSA. 🌯

Lunch & Learn: Downsizing with Confidence | 11am–12pm @ Cogir of Potomac
Moyer Move Management shares a practical playbook for decluttering, sorting, and planning your next move, with a complimentary lunch. Free RSVP in link 📦

Potomac Teen Advisory Board (TAB) | 6:15–7:45pm @ Potomac Library
Help decide what teens actually want from the library, rack up service-learning hours, and practice real leadership skills, with pizza as your very persuasive committee co-chair. Ages 13-17 🍕

Mahjong Night | 7–9pm @ Whelan’s Beer & Wine
Grab a seat or reserve a whole table for a friendly, beginner-welcoming Mahjong night, including a Mahjong 101 table for first-timers who want guidance. Tiles provided, bring you own NMJL card or buy one there 🀄

PCV Speaker Series: The President Has Been Shot! | 3–4:30pm @ Potomac Community Center
United Press International managing editor Ron Cohen relives Reagan’s shooting through the newsroom adrenaline rush, then pivots to what we’ve lost in an internet-first news world. Free registration link 🗞️

Ghost[ed] with Arthur Kayzakian | 7–8:30pm @ Virtual
Strathmore hosts Kate Tufts finalist Arthur Kayzakian for an erasure-poetry workshop that turns exile and fragmentation into electric new work by deleting with intent. Register in link 🖋️

Winter Waterfowl at Gunners Lake | 2:30–2:30pm @ Gunners Lake Trailhead
Park’s closed Friday, so meet off-site for a 1.3-mile paved loop with a volunteer ranger, scanning Gunners Lake for buffleheads, mergansers, and widgeons. Binoculars strongly recommended 🦆

(Almost) Dry January Happy Hour | 4:30–6:30pm @ Jurisdiction Clothing
Sip Wölffer Estate tastings from classic to low and no-alc while browsing Jurisdiction’s polished pieces. Drop-in’s welcome 🍷

^{*Dates & times subject to change based on weather and/or venues making your life more difficult}

Forward the Loop to that neighbor who likes to salt the sidewalk like French fries.

-Potomac Loop Team