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Area Targeted for Improvements to Include Janna Lee Avenue
Rec center and tech incubator could be the start of more opportunity.
Stabbing on Janna Lee
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Discarded PPE Litters Neighborhoods
Disposal of this essential equipment has not found its way into the trash cans in some cases.
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Rubinstein Honored as Sully District Officer of the Quarter
It’s pretty special for a police officer to be selected as his station’s Officer of the Quarter.
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Montgomery County Public Schools Plans for Fall Opening
Published draft subject to review
Montgomery County Public Schools announced Saturday a plan for reopening schools this fall.
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Volunteers Work to Clean Trash Along C&O Canal
Potomac resident Allen Gorrelick runs along the path above the C&O Canal near Angler’s Inn about three times a week.
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Meet Marta Hill Gray, New Executive Director of Culpepper Garden
Marta Hill Gray wears one of her masks as she has her temperature taken, signs in with her own pen and walks through the door of Culpepper Garden on July 1.
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Man Fatally Wounded in Reston Shooting
Detectives from Major Crimes Bureau are continuing to investigate a fatal shooting that occurred Friday night, July 10, in a Reston apartment community.
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Controversy over Hidden Creek Country Club in Reston Erupts
Stakeholders and county supervisor speak out.
It is approaching three years since Connecticut-based real estate developer Wheelock Communities announced its acquisition of Hidden Creek Country Club in Reston.
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The Closet Awards Scholarships
The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area, Inc. recently awarded $45,000 in college scholarships to 22 deserving high school graduates at five local high schools.
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Protecting Paychecks
Restaurants, lawyers and consultants in Alexandria receive millions in forgivable loans.
Restaurants in Alexandria received the biggest chunk of federal cash from the Paycheck Protection Program, landing more than 200 forgivable loans and saving about 4,000 jobs, according to new data released from the Small Business Administration. Lawyers, consultants and home health care workers also scored big, landing hundreds of loans and saving thousands of jobs. Ultimately, businesses in Alexandria received more than 3,000 loans and preserved more than 35,000 jobs.
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Look Below the Impervious Surface
The public has 90 days to respond to a proposed $11 billion project that would impact 48 miles of the Beltway, the American Legion Bridge, and land and water below for generations to come.
The risk is $11 billion and contamination of waterways and parkland for generations to come.
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Coalition Pleads for Removal of Fairfax County SROs
NOVA Equity Agenda Coalition proposes redirecting of funding to hire counselors.
"While schools' primary role is to serve as an institution for learning, it must also remain a suitable place for young people to mature and sometimes err, without being subjected to the unquestionably perilous path of the criminal justice system," wrote members of the NOVA Equity Agenda Coalition in a July 6 letter to Fairfax County Public Schools Board and Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
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Early Morning Shooting Injures Five in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Police District officers responded to an apartment complex in the 7900 block of Janna Lee Avenue in Mount Vernon at 1 a.m. July 7 for a shooting.
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Opinion: Letter to the Editor: Racism Must Force Us as Individuals to Act
Over a century ago African-American educator and activist, W.E.B DuBois argued the dilemma, "Am I an American or am I a Negro ... does my black blood place upon me any more obligation to assert my nationality than German, Irish or Italian blood would."
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Opinion: Letter to the Editor: Racial Justice Applied to Traffic Enforcement
An open letter to Alexandria’s City Council Members, the City’s Manager and Alexandria’s Chief of Police: Subject: AFSS statement on racial justice applied to traffic enforcement
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Health Care Heroes in Mount Vernon
#CAREavanChallenge visits assisted living facilities.
The gauntlet was thrown. ElderTree Care Management Services challenged care providers to get creative and show appreciation for health care aides at local assisted living facilities.