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Inexperienced Fairfax Looks to Maintain Postseason Success
Defending region champ has won six straight conference titles.
The Fairfax field hockey team has won six consecutive Conference 6/Liberty District titles.
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West Springfield Winning with Team-Oriented Approach
Spartans beat Robinson at Blast ALS tournament.
After a rough start to the second day of the Blast ALS field hockey tournament at Lake Braddock Secondary School, West Springfield increased its defensive effort and showed what can happen when the Spartans are on the same page.
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Burke: Robinson Finds Early Success Despite Inexperienced Defense
Rams go 2-1-1 during Lake Braddock tournament.
The Robinson field hockey team went 2-1-1 during the Blast ALS tournament.
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Lake Braddock Finishes Strong at Blast ALS Tournament
The Lake Braddock field hockey team is off to a 2-3-1 start.
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McLean Volleyball Finishes Runner-Up at NVVA Invitational
McLean reached the championship match of the NVVA Invitational.
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Vienna: Oakton Field Hockey Competitive at Lake Braddock Tourney
The Oakton field hockey team finished 1-3 at the Blast ALS tournament.
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Vienna: Oakton Volleyball Wins NVVA Invitational
Cougars sweep five opponents in Sterling tournament.
Oakton went undefeated while winning the NVVA Invitational.
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Workplace Fitness
Employer-based health and wellness programs are good for business.
It’s Wednesday afternoon and a cohort of George Mason University staff, students and faculty hit the pavement. Clad in attire ranging from running shorts and brightly colored sneakers to neutral walking shoes and business suits, the group takes part in “Who’s Walking Wednesdays,” part of an initiative to get moving for health and wellness.
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Suffragist Memorial in Lorton Will be a ‘Site of Conscience’
Film brings to light torture, abuse suffragists suffered at Occoquan Workhouse.
The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association held a viewing of the 2004 film “Iron Jawed Angels” directed by Katja von Garnier on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at Gunston Hall in Lorton. The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on this day 95 years ago in 1920. The date is designated as Women’s Equality Day.
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Community and Military March Over Veterans Bridge in Springfield
Bridge symbolizes partnership between community and military, families.
Central Springfield bustled, not from the usual parade of rush hour traffic forced to stop at each light dotting that sliver of Backlick Road, but from residents, local politicians and military personnel who gathered together in front of the FedEx on Bland Street, across from the new Potbelly Sandwich Shop in Springfield Plaza, for the 14th Annual BridgeWalk across Veterans Bridge on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
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Lorton: Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Inaugural Northern Virginia Hunger Action Expo
The numbers tell the story. Over 217,000 people across Northern Virginia are at risk of hunger, including 62,000 children under the age of 18, according to the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB).
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Letter: Time for ‘New Blood’
Letter to the Editor
This will reply to the letter in your Aug. 20 edition asking “[w]hat is it about Euille’s candidacy that so concerns the vice mayor’s supporters?”
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Letter: Protect Historic Public Housing
Letter to the Editor
Do Alexandria’s historic districts mean anything? That is the question that City Council will answer Sept. 12 when it decides whether to uphold or overturn the Parker Gray Board of Architectural Review’s unanimous decision to reject the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s (ARHA) request to demolish Ramsey Homes on 600 block of North Patrick Street.
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Chantilly Brief: Woman Dies From Car Crash
A 85-year-old woman who was injured in an Aug. 12 crash died on Sunday, Aug. 16. She has been identified as Nancy Schade, of the Fairfax area.
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Letter: Join the Other America
Letter to the Editor
This summer, we have seen a groundswell movement to disrupt the course of our history of racism in America.
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Centreville: ‘He Fought with Honor, Dignity’
Sully Police Sgt. Ryan Lindenbaum loses battle with cancer.
Friends, family and the Fairfax County Police Department said goodbye to one of their own this week when Sgt. Ryan Matthew Lindenbaum was laid to rest.
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Top 10 Reasons to Love Living in Potomac
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For the new resident of Potomac, Washington D.C. might seem like a giant maze of numbers and letters, a traffic gridlock defined only by the outer loop and the inner loop and a land of workaholics where 9-5 is unheard of – a day of work begins at 6 a.m. and ends at 8 or 9 p.m.
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Potomac: Animals Can Help Patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Animals can help patients with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders heal.
Wearing her long dark hair in pigtails and a backwards baseball cap, Leah Schuman peered curiously over a low fence into a pen of miniature llamas.
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Mount Vernon Gazette: September 2, 2015
Mount Vernon Gazette: September 2, 2015