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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Bull Run Festival of Lights is Underway

The holiday light show is open each night from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5:30-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday and holidays.

If you're looking for things to do with friends and family during the holidays, you can kick the holiday spirit in gear with a visit to Bull Run Regional Park, 7700 Bull Run Drive in Centreville, where the annual lights festival continues through Jan. 6. The Bull Run Festival of Lights features Santa's Enchanted Lights, more than 40,000 animated lights set to music that you can view from your car. Each year the event attracts about 30,000 cars. The busiest evenings are Friday through Sunday. The holiday light show is open each night from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5:30-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday and holidays. Admission rates are $15 per car Monday through Thursday and $20 per car Friday through Sunday and holidays.  A $3 off Bull Run …

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Mary Ann Barton

10:55 am on Friday, November 23, 2012

We have never gone but hope to make it this year.   more ›

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Enter Patch's “Deck the House” Contest for a Chance to Win $100,000

Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!

We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America — the best “decked” house in the country —the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16 (check the site Monday for a direct link to our contest page so you can enter). Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local …

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Shaun Courtney

3:45 pm on Monday, December 17, 2012

Good point, Eugenia. I was lucky to buy my fresh green swag over Thanksgiving and to get my tree the first week of December. Otherwise even those very simple decorations might have never happened! -Shaun   more ›

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