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FCPS Honors 2022

Recognizing achievements in education.

Recognizing achievements in education.

Finding Answers to One of Our Greatest Challenges

Finding Answers to One of Our Greatest Challenges

Chantilly Teen Dies after Car Crash

Chantilly Teen Dies after Car Crash


Roundups

Roundups

Vienna Wireless Society Participates in 2022 National Field Day, June 25-26

Public invited to see how it works, try it out.

Local amateur radio operators (“hams”) will join thousands nationwide...

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Seniors Helping Seniors® Arrives to Potomac

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Seniors Helping Seniors® home care recently opened a Bethesda-based franchise and is now providing non-medical services throughout Potomac and the surrounding areas...


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‘Relaxing and Therapeutic Environment’

Upscale Raizun Nail Spa opens in Fairfax City

Sure, it’s easy to find a nail salon in nearly every city. But one look inside Raizun Nail Spa...

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Cadet Sonya Erickson Receives the DAR Bronze JROTC Medal

Anna Maria Fitzhugh Chapter, NSDAR, is pleased to recognize the recipient of the DAR JROTC Medal and the winners of the DAR Youth Citizenship Award...

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Eagle Scout Court of Honor for Minh-Vien Nguyen

Eagle Scout Minh-Vien Nguyen is 14 years old, and is in Boy Scout Troop-881...


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Virginia Tech Studies Promising Tree of Heaven Control

The Tree of Heaven (TOH) may appear to most as just another pretty tree. With airy frond-like leaves...

FCPS Honors 2022

Recognizing the achievements in education in a challenging year.

At its Honors Reception and Recognition Ceremony on Wednesday, June 8, Fairfax County Public Schools paid tribute to its employees who...

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Class of 2022

Commonwealth Academy seniors graduate.

The Commonwealth Academy class of 2022 celebrated June 10 at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial following two years of scaled back ceremonies due to the pandemic.


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Virginia’s Lt. Governor Visits Local Businesses

Virginia’s Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, spent last Thursday in the greater Mount Vernon area...

Local Park Recognized by National Group as Community Forest

n April and May Monticello Park in Alexandria is a stopover for migrating warblers, and the park fills with birders...

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Sole Providers

300 new shoes distributed at Gum Springs.

Firefighters and volunteers from across the county gathered June 2 to distribute more than 300 pair...


Play Ball!

Aces season opens at Frank Mann Field.

The Alexandria Aces baseball team opened its 2022 season with a decisive 8-4 victory over the Cropdusters...

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Together Again

Mount Vernon At Home celebrates at River Farm gala.

Following two years of limited personal contact, Mount Vernon At Home marked a return to in-person gatherings with its annual gala May 25 at River Farm.

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Belle Haven Flood Wall: Solution for Coastal Flooding?

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study brings out residents, scientists and naysayers.

Flood Walls


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Ban Battle Botched

Inside the failed effort to ban assault weapons in Virginia.

Banning assault weapons was a major priority for gun-violence prevention advocates in early 2020...

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What's Up with Herndon Downtown Project?

Holistic view and Town Manager comments

What's Up with Herndon Downtown Project?