🥬 Getting our locally grown weekly greens just got a bit easier. The Nourish Acres farm in now offers Friday pickups at Boulangerie Christophe in Cabin John Village for just-picked greens, artisan loaves, and pasture-raised meats. Get ready to build your box and reserve pickup

🅿️ Permit parking addition is on the table for Highland Stone: MCDOT scheduled a virtual hearing for Tue, Nov 18 to add more of Bunnell Dr to the neighborhood’s Residential Parking Permit zone. See map and Register to speak

🧣 A Bethesda fave migrates to Potomac: The Cashmere Sale pop-up store has relocated to Potomac Woods Plaza (former On Cloud 9 location) for the holiday season. Check out their cozy-lux styles until Dec 13 [Store Reporter]

🎃 It’s Halloween week at Quincy’s Potomac: Highlights include a Franken-Stein holding showdown, a Kids Not-So-Scary Bingo for families, and Friday’s big Halloween Costume Party. Pick your nights

🏈 Churchill took down Wootton 34–6 to improve to 7–1. Next up is the also 7-1 Paint Branch this Thursday. Read the MoCo HS Football week 8 recap

Franken-Stein Competition | 8pm @ Quincy’s Potomac
Flex those forearms in Sam Adams’ Oktoberfest stein-holding showdown, where endurance meets beer and pride’s on the line for Potomac’s strongest. 🍺

Planning to Leave Federal Service | 12–1pm @ Virtual
Get clear on FERS, TSP, FEHB, and FEGLI with this expert-led session built to untangle your federal retirement roadmap before you take the leap. Sign up in link 💼

Dinner & Learn: Jewish Funeral Planning | Weds-Thurs @ Attman’s Potomac Deli
Hosted by Northern Virginia Jewish Funerals, this Dinner & Learn demystifies Jewish funeral traditions, choices, and costs so families leave informed, relieved, not sold to. Free dinner on either Wednesday or Thursday at 6pm 🍽️

Great Falls Ecology Walk | 10am–1pm @ Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center
Guided Towpath hike for elementary students from Peaceful Worldschoolers of the DMV that explores habitats, adaptations, and invasive species while spotting wildlife by the falls. Free, register in link + arrive by 9:45 with you lunch and water 🥾

McCrillis Gardens Fall Tour | 1–2:30pm @ McCrillis Gardens
Brookside’s Karl Quimby leads a brisk wander through this hidden woodland, spotlighting fall-blooming camellias and champion trees for a connoisseur’s look at McCrillis’ jewel-box textures. Register in link + also on Saturday @ 10:30am 🍁

Denice Frohman: Esto No Tiene Nombre | 12:30pm @ Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
Slam champion Denice Frohman performs a one-woman show in English with some Spanish, uplifting oral histories of Latina lesbian elders and exploring identity, community, and change. Tickets in link 🎤

Amanda Leland: Sea Change | 7–8pm @ Wonderland Books
Environmental Defense Fund’s Amanda Leland unpacks Sea Change, a hopeful, plain-spoken look at unlikely alliances that rescued fisheries, in conversation with a local chef. 🌊

Compagnie Hervé Koubi: Sol Invictus | 8pm @ Music Center at Strathmore French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi’s electrifying troupe vaults through capoeira, urban, and contemporary forms in Sol Invictus, a luminous meditation on lineage, solidarity, and love’s gravity-defying resilience. Tickets in link 🌞

Halloween Costume Contest & Social | 12:30–2pm @ Nancy H. Dacek North Potomac Community Recreation Center
Take the spotlight in a playful costume showdown with prizes, photo ops, and cackles, as North Potomac contenders vie for 2025 bragging rights. Ages 55+ register in link 🎭

Fall Harvest Festival | 5–8pm @ Scotland Neighborhood Recreation Center
Family-night Fall Harvest with games, candy, and treats, plus a costume contest, music, arts and crafts, and giveaways for neighbors of all ages. Free + costumes encouraged 🎃

6th Fear Presents: The Haunted Trail | 7–9:30pm @ 14901 Damson Terrace
North Potomac’s beloved DIY haunt returns with a ten-minute maze of eerie effects and jump scares built by neighborhood families for fun and good causes. Free, ages 5+, bring non-perishable food donations 👻

Meet Nova: Your adventure buddy

Smart, high-energy, and curious. Shy on first hello, then playful. Food and toy motivated (ropes and squeakers). Knows Sit, walks nicely, rarely soils her kennel. Best for active homes with kids 11+. No cats or small animals. Dog-selective, so slow introductions.

Ready to meet her? Apply to adopt Nova today.

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

Pass the Loop to that neighbor who still thinks kale is a garnish.

-Potomac Loop Team