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Westfield Field Hockey Beats Fairfax

Johnson, Winesett score goals for Bulldogs.

Westfield field hockey improves to 6-2.

Bach to Rock, a music school for students of all ages, has opened its newest location at Worldgate Centre in Herndon. The school features lessons for a variety of instruments, as well as recording facilities and the Beat Refinery, Bach to Rock’s instructional DJ school.

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.

Letter: Proven Problem-solver

Letter to the Editor

The current primary race for Mayor of Alexandria does indeed offer us a choice, as many have pointed out in these opinion pages. Our choice is Kerry Donley.

Letter: A Determined Leader

Many Alexandrians have an important choice on Tuesday, June 9: Our choice for delegate of the 45th District.

Franklin Sherman Celebrates 100 Years

Centennial bash for school with historic roots in McLean.

Kim Todd remembers how she felt at home at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in the late 1970s. Nearly 40 years later, she is serving as the school’s Parent Teacher Association centennial coordinator and has seen three of her children enter the school as she had. The school celebrated its centennial year carnival style with the community on Sunday with a petting zoo, cotton candy and fair-style rides and games.

Wellbeing: Meditation as Medicine

Practice linked to improvements in health.

Landscapes Are Vivid, and Get Haikus, in Steve Moen’s Across the Gorge and Other Spaces Between

Painter Steve Moen ponders time and the human experience through his solo exhibit Across the Gorge and Other Spaces Between.

Hollywood Spies on Vienna

Film crews shoot 'Breach,' story of FBI spy Robert Hanssen.

Hollywood Spies on Vienna

Film crews shoot 'Breach,' story of FBI spy Robert Hanssen, in Vienna.

Hollywood Spies on Vienna

Officers Respond Quickly

Arrests made in three cases

Officers Respond Quickly

Make a Call; Save a Life

Petersen’s “Good Samaritan Overdose Protection” law goes into effect July 1.

Accidental overdose deaths are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, exceeding even motor vehicle accidents among people ages 25 to 64, according to a recently released study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Last year, an estimated 210 heroin overdoses fatalities occurred in Virginia, with the highest number in Fairfax and Prince William counties.

Cappies Review: Near Miraculous Production

“The Miracle Worker” at Paul VI Catholic High School.

“Helen, the chick has to come out of its shell sometime…you come out too!” For Helen Keller, life was a black void of ignorance. Almost sealed off from the outside world, pampered by her parents, she understood only desire and reward.

‘Parked Outside the Door’ Opens at ArtSpace Herndon

Photo exhibit examines relationships with vehicles and buildings.

Photographer John Petro’s exhibit “Parked Outside the Door” has opened at art gallery ArtSpace Herndon. In the exhibit, Petro explores two fundamental constructs of ingenuity, vehicles and buildings. While traveling America, Petro captured scenes of mobility and permanence.

An Emotionally Gripping Production

‘The Children's Hour’ at Langley High School.

Amongst all the pandemonium of the Wright-Dobie school, one little girl stands out. With fire-red hair, a sickly sweet smile, and a sadistic gleam in her eyes, it is immediately clear that one of these things is not like the others. Langley High School's production of “The Children's Hour” by Lillian Hellman comments on the way gossip and lies can destroy lives. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, written in 1934 depicts the story of Mary Tilford, a wicked little girl whose lies about a homosexual relationship between two teachers at the Wright- Dobie School spiral out of control. The Children's Hour was first premiered on Broadway at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, where it ran for more than two years.