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Empowering Fairfax City’s Women Entrepreneurs

Luncheon will provide advice, connections, to grow their businesses.

Luncheon will provide advice, connections, to grow their businesses.

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Chantilly Man Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Pham was charged with attacking Connolly’s staffers.

Chantilly Man Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

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Workouts Reach New Heights at Club Studio in Tysons

Workouts Reach New Heights at Club Studio in Tysons

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Bats – Superheroes of the Night

As dusk fell on a recent bat walk, these nocturnal aerialists zipped about above the trail seeming to streak by every 30 seconds.

Bats

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Fairfax County Animal Shelter Hosts ‘Clear the Shelters’

Fairfax County Animal Shelter Hosts ‘Clear the Shelters’

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Doggie Swims Underway by RA

Doggie Swims Underway by RA

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FCPS Superintendent Attempts to Unwind Misrepresentations

Dear Governor: FCPS outperforms state averages in all state-mandated subjects.

FCPS Superintendent Attempts to Unwind Misrepresentations

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Dominion Energy & Park Authority Connect to Help Ospreys

Nest box platforms installed at Laurel Hill Park

Nest box platforms installed at Laurel Hill Park

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Reston Encampment To Be Shut Down Sept. 10

County officials don’t answer the tough questions.

County officials don’t answer the tough questions.

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Dominion Energy & Park Authority Connect to Help Ospreys

Nest box platforms installed at Laurel Hill Park

birds

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Rocking the Poise in Springfield

Local teen wins crown at recent national American Miss Pageant

Modeling

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The Legacy of Race-based Covenants

3 practices that created housing inequity: racial covenants; zoning; and limited access to mortgages based on race.

Some real estate developers and others selling property in Northern Virginia from 1900 through the 1960s used race-based, restrictive covenants to maintain segregation, and Virginia’s state and local governments were enablers at times, Dr. Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington history professor told a packed room of 120 on August 27 at the Sherwood Regional Library.

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Prison Reform Takes Long, Tortuous Path

Del. Hope advocates for more humane conditions for incarcerated people.

Del. Patrick Hope (D-47) spearheaded legislation this session that creates a state ombudsman over the Department of Corrections.

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Alexandria Old Town Art Festival

The Alexandria Old Town Art Festival returns to John Carlyle Square for the 22nd year. The popular, free showcase featuring thousands of fine art works from local and national artists happens Sept. 14 - 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

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Preserving Douglass Memorial Cemetery

Johnson to present updates Sept. 8. at Black History Museum.

Michael Johnson is a life-long Alexandrian, born and raised at a time when the city was divided by race. As a kid, he used to play in a field overrun by weeds, not realizing until decades later that it was the Frederick Douglass Memorial Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery where generations of his ancestors are buried.