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Mount Vernon: Victors Emerge from Democratic Primary
Krizek for 44th District, Levine for 45th, Dan Storck for supervisor. jump
After polls closed at 7 p.m. and results from precincts started to trickle in over cell phone
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Mount Vernon: Whitman Teacher Honored
Eugenio Fischer Sanchez, who teaches Spanish at Whitman Middle School, is one of two teachers honored with the 2015 Victoria D. de Sanchez Northern Virginia Hispanic Teacher of the Year Award.
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Mount Vernon: Crime Report
The following incidents were reported by the Mount Vernon District Police Station.
ROBBERY, 8600 block of Village Square, June 8, 2:38 p.m. A pizza delivery driver was making a delivery and was approached by two men.
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Alexandria: Addressing Men
Church’s conference offers encouragement.
With Bibles and notebooks in hand, men who were both members and visitors of Alfred Street Baptist Church filed into the building one early and recent Saturday morning, perhaps because they knew New York Knicks Coach Jim Cleamons would be there, or because they knew there would be a message from the pastor, or perhaps due to just the simple camaraderie that being at church on an early Saturday morning would bring.
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Burke Triplets set to Graduate from Lake Braddock Secondary
Logan Shock is the athletic one, Madison Shock is the pretty one and Austin Shock is the smart one, they said, basically in unison. All their lives, none of them has ever entered school feeling alone.
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Alexandria/Mount Vernon Weekend Fun: June 12-14
Events in Alexandria and Mount Vernon for the weekend of June 12-14
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Lake Braddock Fastest Ever: ‘They Earned That Title’
The state championship rings won by Lake Braddock Secondary School’s boys cross country team are engraved with: “Fastest ever.”
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Alexandria: ‘Family Paint Night’
The Office of the Arts hosted a second “Family Paint Night” on Friday, June 5 at the Durant Arts Center
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Alexandria: A Red Nose Affair
Program participants from Youth Achieving Greatness and the Therapeutic Recreation Mainstream Program at the Nannie J. Lee Memorial Recreation Center could not wait to put on their red noses to help support the Red Nose Day campaign on May 21.
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Column: Philosophically Speaking
Recently I attended a “Celebration of Life” event, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, created to bring attention to, and educate the public on, cancer. As a long-time cancer survivor, nearly six and a half years now – and one treated by doctors at Kaiser, I was asked, along with a cervical cancer survivor, to sit on a “survivor panel”; to share our cancer experiences, and offer, along with two oncologists and a pulmonologist, our respective insights as “treater” and “treatee.”
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Alexandria: Addressing Men
Church’s conference offers encouragement.
With Bibles and notebooks in hand, men who were both members and visitors of Alfred Street Baptist Church filed into the building one early and recent Saturday morning, perhaps because they knew New York Knicks Coach Jim Cleamons would be there, or because they knew there would be a message from the pastor, or perhaps due to just the simple camaraderie that being at church on an early Saturday morning would bring.
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FCPS Honors Women in Sports
Laubach, Centreville HS Alum and Olympian, gives keynote address.
The Fairfax County Women in Sports Awards ceremony was held at Oakton High School on Sunday, May 31.
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Alexandria: TC Crew Wins Two Golds
Titan girls’ first varsity and varsity lightweight 8 dominate.
The T.C. Williams girls’ first varsity 8 and girls’ varsity lightweight 8 ended the season with two big wins: gold medals at the Canadian Nationals in Ontario, Canada. The girls’ freshman 8 boat also captured a silver medal, and TC sculler Kyra McClary powered down the course to a close fourth-place finish.
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Academic Achievers Awarded
FACETS hosts dinner in celebration of A, B-earning K-12 youth.
Smiles flashed in between bites of dinner at the Sherwood Community Center, where over one hundred students in grades K-12 gathered with their families to receive certificates for A-B report cards Wednesday, June 3.
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Walk for Well a Success
Charity walk at Burke Lake raises funds to build a well in Uganda.
June 6 dawned sunny and cloudless over shelter C at Burke Lake. A crowd of 50 people clad in bright turquoise shirts gathered to complete a two-mile walk to raise funds to build a well in a Ugandan village called Natihalo.
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Letter: Creating A Legacy
Letter to the Editor
As I write this, I have no idea who will win the Democratic mayoral primary.
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Fairfax: Recognizing 25 Years of Volunteer Work
Fairfax City Council honors resident Dorothy Sorrell.
Dorothy Sorrell’s been volunteering for a quarter of a century. And at the May 26 Fairfax City Council meeting, she was honored for her many years of service to her community.
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Alexandria: Volunteers Make Up the Backbone of a Community
Rebuilding Together Alexandria
Did you know that 29 percent of Virginia adults volunteered last year through an organization?
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Alexandria: Mentor of The Month
Two Lives Changed
I have been with my tutor/mentor for six months. Each week, Berkley and I work on writing, reading, and vocabulary.