A list of Earth Day-related activities in the April 22 Weekend section, which is printed in advance, incorrectly included the Navy Festival. That festival will not be taking place this year.
In early editions of the April 21 Style section, the name of sneaker collector Ian Callender was misspelled.
An April 21 Home article about Habitat for Humanity's building supply and home furnishings thrift shops omitted two area ReStores, one in North Brentwood and one in Fredericksburg.
An April 20 article mistakenly said that the train station from which President-elect Abraham Lincoln left for Washington in 1861 was across the street from the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. Lincoln actually departed for Washington from the Great Western Depot, located several blocks away.
An April 20 Metro article incorrectly reported the percentage of increase in Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan's proposed 2006 budget over the current spending plan. It is 8.6 percent, not 10 percent.
An incorrect Web address was published April 20 in the Swing golf section. The correct Web address for the Executive Women's Golf Association Washington D.C. Metro Chapter is www.ewgadc.org.
In the April 17 Sunday Source, an entertainment highlight about the "Eagle Festival" at Mason Neck State Park included the wrong hours and admission price. The festival is Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and admission is free.
The Mini Page, a children's syndicated feature that runs inside the second section of the Sunday comics, recently made two errors. In the April 10 edition about Wind Waves, Tsunamis and Tides, it incorrectly stated that the sun orbits Earth. The sentence should have read: "The orbit of the moon around Earth and Earth around the sun creates forces affecting tides." In the March 27 edition about the Netherlands, the name of Philips Electronics, a Dutch company, was misspelled.
An April 3 Magazine article incorrectly reported that the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology failed to produce a semifinalist in this year's Intel Science Talent Search. There were five semifinalists from Thomas Jefferson.
A March 15 Health article was unclear about when Maryland and Virginia require meningitis vaccination. Both states require college students living on campus to be inoculated against meningococcal disease, the leading cause of bacterial meningitis.
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