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Three-Day of Budget Public Hearings
Out in force, crying out for help from Fairfax County.
Budget Hearings
Preschool Mail Carriers Deliver Valentines
FCPS teacher broadens students' learning and social skills through play.
Valentines
Honoring the Confederacy Does Not Honor Black Lives
Seven descendants of Confederate colonel support renaming of Mosby Woods Elementary.
As mass movements across the United States and Virginia respond to generations of police brutality and systemic racism by toppling Confederate statues and holding protests, members of the Fairfax County School Board are using their power to effect change.
Wreaths Across America at Chestnut Grove Cemetery in Herndon
Regional groups band together to honor and remember heroes.
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Supervisors Recognize McLean HS "It’s Academic" Team
First ever FCPS to win two championships in a row.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors recognized the McLean High School Scholastic Bowl Team for their "It’s Academic" championship with a resolution on Tuesday, July 25
Teacher Wants to Erase Student Meal Debt
VA Bill H-1967: School meals; availability at no cost to the student
Student meals
Breaking Records at Kids' Trout Fishing Derby
Looks like an all-time high for participating anglers.
Trout fishing
Silver Line Transferred to Metro's Control
Passenger service date to be determined by Metro's Board of Directors
Passenger service date to be determined by Metro's Board of Directors
Lee District is Changing Its Name to Franconia
Supervisors' vote is unanimous.
he Fairfax County Board of Supervisors overwhelmingly approved two motions to change the name of the Lee District to Franconia...
Challenged Books, Ballooning Waitlists for Mental Health, ADA Playgrounds
What you might have missed at the Dec. 2 School Board meeting.
School Board
SPARC’s Inaugural Gratitude Gala
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and State Sen. Richard L. Saslaw honored.
SPARC’s Inaugural Gratitude Gala
Virginia Dems: Blue Wall in Both Houses
One Republican Supervisor-elect, zero Republican-endorsed school board member-elects
Election
Snapshot of Election Day Morning, 2021 in Herndon
Insight from voting and volunteering neighbors.
Election snapshots
Celebrating Reopening in Great Falls
Great Falls food establishments, old and new, open under Phase One.
At the Village Centre in Great Falls near the corner of Georgetown Pike and Walker Road, The Old Brogue stood reopened for outdoor canopy dining on its courtyard and continued curbside pickup and delivery.
American Legion Post 184 Recognizes Giant Food at Northpoint
20 years of support.
The Wayne M. Kidwell American Legion Post 184 Herndon-Reston recently acknowledged their enduring friendship with its neighboring community establishment, Giant Store # 0747, at Northpoint Shopping Center in Reston.
Bridge Over Troubled Crosswalk
Wiehle Avenue and W&OD Trail Bridge to be operational this summer.
Bridge over troubled crosswalk