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Discover Mixed Elements Salon in Crofton, Maryland
February 1st, 2012 Categories: Businesses
Mixed Elements Salon is one of Crofton’s best-kept secrets, because it’s tucked away out of sight from the main roads in the back of Princess Center, behind the Blue Dolphin restaurant. I was perfectly content with another local salon and might never have found Mixed Elements, let alone tried it, if they hadn’t donated a gift certificate to Crofton Village Garden Club as a door prize for their Fashion Show and High Tea in 2010.
That’s when I discovered Mixed Elements’ beautiful facility, friendly and competent staff, and LOWER PRICES than the local salon I’d been using for years. Now you have a great excuse to experience Mixed Elements during their semi-annual Color Jam next week, on February 7. Enjoy a 20% discount off their already “lower than the competition” prices for the following:
- Colors, foils and styles
- Nail services
- Eyebrow waxing
- Boutique items
- Select retail items*
If you’ve been thinking about trying a different salon for your beauty services, stop by, email or call (410-878-2284) Mixed Elements today for an appointment during Color Jam next week.
If you can’t make it on February 7, be sure to ask about the Valentine’s Day specials at Mixed Elements Salon. (Or drop some hints to your favorite Valentine that you might like a gift certificate to go with the flowers and chocolates on February 14.) Whatever your excuse, just try it. You might discover, as I did, that Crofton is home to more than one excellent salon.
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Crofton Area Teachers Honored
February 24th, 2011 Categories: Businesses, Community News
Three of the fifteen teachers named as semifinalists for the 2011 Anne Arundel County Teacher of the Year award are affiliated with schools in the greater Crofton area:
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Courtney Hoffberger, Arundel High School
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Julie Maine, Waugh Chapel Elementary School
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Jennifer Schnepp, Piney Orchard Elementary School
Fifty-five Anne Arundel County teachers will be honored at the 25th annual Excellence in Education banquet at the BWI Marriott in Linthicum on March 29.
The event will also honor local business and community partners that have forged critical partnerships with schools across the county, directly benefiting Anne Arundel County’s 75,000 public school students.
Five teachers from the Greater Crofton area will be honored at the event:
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William Campbell, Odenton Elementary School
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Mary Nicole Murphy, Davidsonville Elementary School
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Beth Tipper, Crofton Middle School
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John Trumbule, Crofton Meadows Elementary School
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Joyce Wills, Meade High School
Congratulations to all the teachers nominated for this award!
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Target, Petco, and Wegman’s Are Coming to Crofton
August 20th, 2010 Categories: Businesses
The Crofton area is about to see some major changes with the construction of Village South at Waugh Chapel in Gambrills.
I can just imagine what that complex will do to traffic on Route 3 between Crofton and Severna Park, can’t you?
Things have certainly changed around here since we moved to our first Crofton home in 1970. We really didn’t mind a bit that buying groceries or filling up the car with gas required a drive to Bowie.
I happened to be serving on the Crofton Civic Association Board of Directors when developers proposed the retail centers where Giant and Kmart are located. Vocal residents didn’t think we were doing enough to stop this commercial growth, so they showed up at meetings to protest, and anonymous residents mailed threats… no one would admit to seeing a need for these developments.
Evil visions of Route 3 in Waldorf danced through the heads of Crofton residents.
Now, of course, we take those commercial areas in stride – and I have to laugh whenever I see one of those one-time protesters in line at Kmart.
Forty years later, here we are… Target, Petco, Wegmans, PNC Bank, Dick’s, Bank of Annapolis, and other retailers and businesses large and small are headed our way – the latest and largest commercial development in the Crofton area. It’s way beyond the talking stage. In fact, ground-breaking for Village South will take place next month – Wednesday, September 1 at 10 a.m., to be specific.
I’ll probably be muttering some things under my breath while sitting in traffic on Route 3 five years from now, along with other Crofton residents, but I’m sure we’ll all learn to live with that traffic.
And we’ll no doubt be shopping at Village South, too.
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Check out A Healthy Step in Gambrills
August 1st, 2010 Categories: Businesses
Make A HEALTHY STEP shoe store in Crofton Maryland your destination this week, in honor of National Wiggle Your Toes Day on August 6, 2010.
I’m not kidding. I first discovered this holiday last year and introduced you to A HEALTHY STEP at that time. I just couldn’t let the occasion pass by this year without resurrecting that post, in case you missed it.
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A HEALTHY STEP shoe store is located in The Village of Waugh Chapel at 1300 Main Chapel Way in Gambrills – just 5 minutes from Crofton.
I pictured “grandma” shoes or “nun” shoes, for some reason, when a store called “A HEALTHY STEP” opened near retirement condos in the Village at Waugh Chapel. I had absolutely zero desire to visit that store. My mistake! Now I have to laugh at that misconception.
Their shoes may be “fine-quality men’s and women’s American and European comfort footwear,” as their website claims, but they’re really good looking, as well – at least some of them are. These red shoes have become my uniform shoes… I wear them or a matching pair in brown nearly every day, with slacks or summer dresses.
I might never have discovered A HEALTHY STEP had I not walked past the window while killing time before my nail appointment at nearby Robert Andrews Salon a few weeks ago. My plan was to get some exercise by walking to the other end of the shopping center and back, but I spotted so many cute shoes in the window at A HEALTHY STEP – I never finished that walk. Curious about prices, I stepped inside to check them out and left with two pairs of shoes. Since then, I’ve been back to buy more of the same shoes in other colors. They were THAT comfortable!
If you live near Fort Meade, Crofton, Gambrills, or Odenton and haven’t visited A HEALTHY STEP yet, I encourage you to check it out. You’ll find high quality footwear, friendly knowledgeable customer service, custom orthotics, and, oh yes, “cute” and “trendy” shoes for women.
(They do have men’s shoes, too, but I didn’t pay much attention to them. Sorry, guys, you’ll have to visit there and let us know what you think.)
Thank you, David Lewis, for founding A HEALTHY STEP and opening it right here in the Crofton area. I’m sorry it took me so long to step inside and find out that you sell cute and trendy shoes, too – not just practical ones. Maybe I’ll visit again tomorrow for “National Wiggle Your Toes Day.”
Originally posted at FocusOnCrofton.com on August 5, 2009.
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Have You Dined at Sly Horse Tavern Lately?
June 28th, 2010 Categories: Businesses
Lunch with friends under an umbrella outside the Sly Horse Tavern on the Village Green is one of my favorite things about living in Crofton. It has been for years… no, decades.
Some people go to the Sly Horse for their food, but I like this restaurant more for its ambiance. There’s really no place else like it nearby. And I can usually find something on the menu to tempt me.
In Winter, Sly Horse is the place I go for my “fireplace fix” since I now live in a home without a fireplace. But I enjoy the relaxing environment of dining outside in such pleasant surrounds when the weather is nice. Even when I opt for air conditioning on a blistering hot summer’s day, the view of outside diners from a cozy wooden booth in this Williamsburg style tavern is very relaxing. And I nearly always see someone there that I know from the neighborhood.
Speaking of “tavern” – My personal preference would be for a more 21st century “tavern-like” menu – you know, burgers and reubens and the like (similar to the menu at Olney Ale House in Montgomery County) – but Sly Horse feature more elaborate items such as “Marinated Grilled Salmon Topped with Dill and Cucumber Creme Fraiche.” Even though that’s not my personal taste, their selections obviously appeal to a lot of other people because Sly Horse has been in business since 1985.
The Village Green, where Sly Horse Tavern is located, is just inside the main gates of “Old Crofton,” across the street from Crofton Country Club in a Williamsburg-style “green” which houses small businesses and professional offices. The restaurant itself looks much like Raleigh Tavern in Historic Williamsburg – a lovely place to hold a private party, such as a rehearsal dinner or holiday office party, and they offer a catering menu for events off the premises, as well.
If you live or work anywhere in the Greater Crofton area and haven’t yet tried dining at the Sly Horse, I highly recommend it – especially on a beautiful summer day or evening.
Originally posted by Margaret Woda at Maryland Real Estate Blog on 4/8/09.
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