Appetite: On the Menu: Goings-On in Alexandria Restaurants
From permanent restaurant closures to a focus on private parties to wholesalers becoming direct-to-consumer distributors, the pandemic has brought with it quite a few changes to the area’s food-and-drink landscape.
Mountain View High Students Graduate
Mountain View High held a social-distancing graduation outside the school, June 8-9.
Pools In For Summer in Potomac
Pools allowed to open as county enters Phase 2 of Covid recovery.
The good news came just hours before the actual beginning of summer. Public swimming pools in Montgomery County could open.
Covid-19 Response in Potomac
Metro announced that 15 rail stations that had been closed as part of the transit agency’s Covid-19 response will reopen on Sunday, June 28.
Don't Touch the Veggies in Herndon
COVID-19 Safety Guidelines in place as Herndon Farmers Market reopens.
The 2020 Herndon Farmers Market, operated under Fairfax County Park Authority, opened for the season later than normal, not on the usual third Thursday in April, but on June 18.
Uncertainties of the Fall 2020 High School Sports Season
Local student athletes weigh in.
As the fate of in-person classes for high schools in the fall remains unknown, another uncertainty – the fall high school sports season – is on many student athletes’ minds.
McLean Parks Open for ‘Responsible Recreation’
As of June 12, McLean parks have opened under Phase Two COVID-19 Guidelines.
Shelter Experiences in Alexandria May Be Virtual, but They’re Still Warm and Fuzzy
“Tigger, Tigger,” 13-year-old Allayna said over and over, as a year-old pit bull terrier she had never met leaped in her lap and licked her face.
‘This Was Something I Could Count On’ in Centreville
Paul VI seniors honored in neighborhood’s graduation parade.
Thanks to COVID-19, this year’s high-school seniors didn’t get to have their achievements and graduation recognized in a public way.
‘One Step in the Long Road to Recovery’ in Fairfax City
City creates grant program for its businesses.
Fairfax City received some $2.1 million of Virginia’s CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act funds. And last Tuesday, June 9, City Council approved using $1,150,000 of this money for a business-support grant program, Fairfax City ReConnected Grant, to help small City businesses impacted by COVID-19.
Partying While Social Distancing
Area high school graduates reflect on drive-through diplomas, basement prom parties.
As seniors everywhere are adjusting to the loss of their final year in high school, many have had to get creative to celebrate their long-awaited accomplishments.
Titan Triumph
T.C. Williams holds online commencement.
It wasn’t the graduation ceremony the senior class expected when the school year began in September, but across the city students and families celebrated June 13 as T.C. Williams High School held a virtual graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020.
‘We’re Grateful You Were our Theater Director’
Zoom retirement party for Centreville High’s Mike Hudson.
Mike Hudson’s taught for 40 years – the last 30 as Centreville High’s theater teacher/director. And he and his students have always had such a strong bond that they didn’t call him “Mr. Hudson,” but “Huddy,” as a term of endearment.
Stand Up for Racial Justice
More than 400 members of several churches and synagogues in Potomac, Bethesda and Chevy Chase gathered for concurrent peaceful, interfaith vigils on June 7 to stand in support of racial justice.
