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Multi-Tasker Alimena Takes Up McLean Orchestra Baton

Multi-Tasker Alimena Takes Up McLean Orchestra Baton

Week in Herndon

Week in Herndon

Gardening Notes

Gardening Notes

Gardening Notes

Gardening Notes

Boulter Enters Supervisor Race

Virginia Hills man past president of Forward Fairfax.

Boulter Enters Supervisor Race

Gardening Notes

Gardening Notes

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South Koreans Return to Reston

Representatives from the province of JeollaNam-Do in South Korea returned for a second visit to Reston – this time to learn how the planned community delivers services to residents.

Letter to the Editor: Focus on Needs Not Wants

Taxpayer funds should not subsidize any private company, no matter how much City Hall and special interest groups want its services. To do so requires all taxpayers to assume a business risk without benefitting as shareholders from the company’s profits.

Week in Great Falls

Starshine Theater to Present Summer Camp Production

Starshine Theater of Great Falls is enrolling student actors, singers and dancers, ages 6 through 19, for its 20th annual summer camp production. This July, the student cast presents the original musical drama, "The Dragons of Darkmoor: How Magic Came Into The World."

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Help the Homeless Walk at Churchill Road

On Sept. 30, Churchill Road Elementary School held its 8th annual Help the Homeless Mini Walk for the benefit of Pathway Homes, a Northern Virginia non-profit that provides services to homeless families in Fairfax County and surrounding areas. With more than 50 registered walkers, the school raised more than $1,500 toward this effort. CRS Physical Education teacher Jason Mastaler spearheaded the event, and along with co-teacher Nicholas Corsi, led the group on a half-mile walk through the school grounds and surrounding neighborhood.

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Brief: McLean High School Performs for Elementary Schools

Brief: The award-winning McLean High School Theatre Company is taking a new holiday show on the road.

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Campaign Spending in Alexandria Election

The Virginia Public Access Project compiled the finance reports from the last City Council and mayoral races, giving the public a view of how much running for an office in the city can cost.

Donate Used Skating Equipment to Support Kids on Ice

Don’t know what to do with your used old ice skates? Hockey skates and equipment?

Alexandria Letter: Re-engage After Master Plan Changes

Letter to the Editor

Like former Mayor Euille’s remark about the campaign contributions he takes from folks with business before the City Council not affecting how he decides, Councilman Chapman’s insistence that unilaterally upending the carefully crafted compromises in the Braddock East master plan, arrived at via a community engagement process, “is not unethical by any means” strains credulity.

Letter: Thoughts on Confederacy

Letter to the Editor

On the question of how Alexandria can deal constructively with the remnants of the Confederacy:

Call for Pet Connection Photos

The Pet Connection, a twice-yearly special edition, will publish on July 22, and photos and stories of your pets with you and your family should be submitted by July 15. Our favorite pictures include both pets and humans. We welcome short stories about how you got your pet, a noteworthy talent or anecdote about your pet, tales of the bonds between your family and your pet, plus drawings, paintings or other artwork of your pet by children or adults Please tell us a little bit about your creature, identify everyone in the photo, give a brief description what is happening in the photo, and include address and phone number (we will not publish your address or phone number, just your town name).

72-year-old Filmmaker Debuts Alzheimer’s Documentary

When Barbara Klutinis’ husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s she had no idea how she was going to get through the ordeal ahead of her. After joining a support group and hearing the stories of others going through the same thing, Klutinis realized she was not alone. Inspired by the experience, she decided to make a documentary about the lives of couples coping with the disease. The film, “The Sum Total of Our Memory: Facing Alzheimer’s Together,” will screen at the NOVA International Film Festival Friday, April 17, 1 p.m., at the Angelika Film Center in Fairfax.

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Clifton Girl Scouts Collect and Donate Diapers

Clifton Girl Scout Troop 4617 collected and delivered more than 5,000 diapers to local charities that help new mothers in need.

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Vienna Theatre Company Presents ‘Be My Baby’

Vienna Theatre Company will present Ken Ludwig's “Be My Baby,” directed by Suzanne Maloney, opening on Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. “Be My Baby” is a romantic comedy that tells the story of John, an irascible Scotsman and an uptight English woman, Maud, and how they're brought together when his ward marries her niece and the young couple decides to adopt a newborn baby.