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Alexandria: TC Girls’ Soccer Falls to Cox in State Semifinals
Titans out-shoot Falcons 28-5 but fail to score.
The T.C. Williams girls' soccer team lost to Cox in the state semifinals.
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Mount Vernon: Padres Select West Potomac’s Sara in 12th Round of MLB Draft
Sara facing choice between turning pro, attending William & Mary.
The San Diego Padres selected West Potomac pitcher Jamie Sara in the 12th round of the MLB Draft.
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Arno’s Pastries Come to Reston
Meet pastry chef Arnaud Herodet.
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Reston: Yoga at the Pavilion
The Love Your Body Yoga Festival gives back and urges community to love their bodies.
The Pavilion at Reston Town Center filled with yogis on Sunday, June 12 for the eighth Love Your Body Yoga Festival.
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Alexandria People at Work: A Second Family at Sunrise
Every Alzheimer’s story is unique.
A yellow balloon zooms across the room. An arm reaches up from a wheelchair and bats it back across the room. The balloon flies faster and faster. "Go Hunter, you throw harder than anyone." Some of the residents are down the hall taking naps.
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Alexandria: A Peace Plan
Confederate Memorials and Street Names Advisory Group completes recommendations.
The Civil War is over. The bitter, year-long argument over what to do about the Confederacy’s legacy in Alexandria seems to have ended with a report from the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Confederate Memorials and Street Names.
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Mount Vernon Letter: Fairness and Taxes
Letter to the Editor
In the June 2 edition of the Gazette, a letter entitled “Seniors Unfairly Tapped for School Budget” argued that senior citizens in Fairfax County should be given a tax rebate funded by a surtax on school-age families because those seniors “have not had children in the school system for years and years.”
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Mount Vernon Column: ‘To Do Nothing Is Also a Policy Choice’
Commentary
These tragedies occur faster than I can publish columns.
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Alexandria Letter: Dealing With Crime
Letter to the Editor
Last week the murder of Pierre Clark, in broad daylight a block from the new Belle Pre building, marked the third homicide in less than 12 months to occur within a narrow radius, just steps from Braddock Road Metro.
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Alexandria Letter: Design Change Unsettling
Letter to the Editor
A lack of transparency and violations of trust are poisonous to community life.
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Classified Advertising June 15, 2016
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Editorial: Support for Police in Reforms
Police commission recommendations come to Board of Supervisors for approval, implementation.
In some ways, the Fairfax County Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Commission, brainchild of Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova, was a bit of a miracle.
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Leadership Fairfax Honors 2016 Graduates
The Pavilion at Reston Town Center was a most fitting venue for the graduation ceremony of the 2016 classes of the non-profit Leadership Fairfax Institute (LFI).
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Considering Private School?
Small steps this summer can minimize stress of application process.
The school year has just come to an end … which means it’s the ideal time to prepare to apply to leading independent schools.
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Vienna Crime Reports
Notable incidents from the Town of Vienna’s Police Department from June 3-9.
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Vienna Bike Rodeo Kicks Off ‘Bike/Walk to School Week’
Annual kids’ obstacle course embraces safe biking.
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Chantilly Baseball Comes Back to Win State Championship
Chargers score three runs in bottom of seventh to beat Battlefield.
The Chantilly baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to beat Battlefield in the 6A state championship game on Saturday.