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Women Helping NOVA Women Succeed
Great Falls Friends and Neighbors Scholarship Fund presents annual scholarships.
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Brightview Explores Plan for Leesburg Pike Facility in Vienna
Senior Living reps hold two community engagement meetings with Vienna, Great Falls neighbors
Brightview Senior Living has resumed community engagement for its proposed Continuing Care Facility project at 9439 Leesburg Pike [Route 7], Vienna.
Application Drought for McLean CBC: No Inquiries
Zoning and land use attorney discusses project challenges
Developers may be working quietly on plans or assembling parcels for future development in downtown McLean.
Member School Board by District
Franconia, Mount Vernon Districts
In November, Fairfax County voters will choose 12 school board members to serve four-year terms starting Jan. 1, 2024. Nineteen candidates are running for the nine magisterial district seats. There are also three at-large seats in the November election. Virginia's School board elections are nonpartisan, meaning that party affiliations can not appear on the ballots for school board candidates. Nevertheless, parties may publicly endorse their candidates.
Programs Assist Seniors and Others with Home Repairs
Help is on the way, one way or another.
Home repair
Oakton Alumna Breaks U.S. Marathon Record
Discipline and courageous inner conversations fuel perseverance.
Marathon runner
Herndon Considers Resolutions Touching Three Centuries, 1900-2100
A go for carnival, improvements for multimodality, education funds of $100K
Herndon funds
Snapshot of Election Day Morning, 2021 in Reston
Insight from voting and volunteering neighbors.
Election Snapshots
Meet Julie Maher: Director of the Great Falls Grange Foundation
Meet Julie Maher: Director of the Great Falls Grange Foundation
FCPS Proposed Six-Year Capital Improvement Plan
Climate change, gerrymandering, and inequitable funding discussed.
Climate change, gerrymandering, and inequitable funding discussed.
Let’s Get This Right: Mask Up NOVA
It’s Phase One and Executive Order 63 for Northern Virginia’s reopening.
On May 29, The Northern Virginia Regional Commission announced that it produced a Public Service Announcement emphasizing the importance of wearing a face mask in public indoor spaces.
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.
Residents Mourn ‘The Death of Colvin Run’
Great Falls and Vienna residents argue that ‘George Washington would not recognize his stream of 1799.’
Colvin Run in Vienna died this spring.
No More Curbside Pickup for Glass in Northern Virginia
Residents will have to take their glass bottles and jars to a purple bin.
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Breaking Records at Kids' Trout Fishing Derby
Looks like an all-time high for participating anglers.
Trout fishing
Overcoming Mental Health Stigma
Suicide Walk-a-Thon brings awareness
The pandemic's psychological and socioeconomic fallout may be driving an accelerated trend in depressive symptoms and suicide ideation, attempts, and deaths in Fairfax County, reported experts in mental health at the "Fight Suicide" Walk-a-Thon at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston held Aug. 21.