Vienna Businesses Take Sustainability Challenge
Challenge promotes environmentally friendly behaviors.
Volunteer Gardeners Help Town of Herndon
The Town Forester promotes community forestry.
The town earned designation as a "Tree City USA" by the National Arbor Day Foundation and is home to eleven neighborhood parks. However, within those 4.3 square miles are not only parks with new trees and plantings which require endless health and welfare checks but town properties, such as those on the Town Hall Square and at the Centennial Golf Course which require endless oversight, endless weeding, and removal of dead plants and shrubs.
Kittenpalooza
Herding baby cats into new homes.
For a couple hours, a back room of the Potomac Yard PetSmart on July 1 was turned into heaven. Dozens of kittens looking for prospective homes crawled and meowed and played with human friends and prospective owners.
Paving Reawakens Controversy
Some Frye Road residents seek fewer speed bumps.
Speed bumps on Frye Road
Finding Balance, in Life and Arts
Local artist Terry Angstrom went from teaching math to painting Italian architecture.
Local artist Terry Angstrom went from teaching math to painting Italian architecture.
Rain or Shine, the Show Must Go On
Fans overcome foul weather to hear Mandisa sing at Tysons.
Stormy weather could not dampen the spirits of hundreds of Mandisa fans gathered at Tysons Corner Center Friday evening to watch a music star sing in the rain.
Shouse Village Swim-a-Thon Brings in $5,400 for Charity
Neighborhood team swims 4,490 laps to raise money for HSC Pediatric Center.
For Shouse Village swimmers, Monday nights are synonymous with swim meets, and rarely do they get a break. But on June 25, instead of relaxing on their night off, swimmers and parents gathered at the neighborhood pool to give back to the greater community in the team’s annual Swim-a-Thon.
Intersection Options Presented to Community
Residents hear about plans to improve Balls Hill Road and Old Dominion Drive intersection.
On Thursday, June 28, 2018, more than 50 residents got to hear about a $20.5 million plan showing four different options to improve that intersection by Project Manager Gibran Abifadel of the Fairfax County Department of Transportation held at Cooper Middle School.
Great Fall Library Promotes Reading Adventure
Once the set number of books is read, the children and teens are given a coupon book as the prize.
The Fairfax County Summer Reading Adventure has kicked off again this year and the Great Falls public library is joining in to give children the chance to turn summer reading into fun prizes.
Summer Sunday Concerts Begin at Central Park
This was the first of seven weekly concerts this July and August, presented by The Alden at the McLean Community Center in cooperation with Dranesville District Supervisor John Foust.
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