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McLean Football Hopes Improved Chemistry Leads to Wins

Highlanders finished 5-5 in 2014.

Entering his second year with McLean, head coach Shaun Blair expects his team’s improved chemistry and strength will help produce wins on the field.

School Calendar Changes Examined

Fairfax County considers ending half-day Mondays, at the cost between $4 to $7.6 Million.

Changes could be coming soon to school schedules in Fairfax County, under a new plan announced by Superintendent Karen Garza at a work session on May 28.

Dinner Music

Focus Music brings folk and acoustic music to Potomac’s Tami’s Table.

Tami’s Table Café and Wine Bar, located at 12944-E Travilah Road, Potomac is the scene to check out.

Freezin’ For A Reason Set for Feb. 11 in Reston

Wonder Woman. Super Man. Batman & Robin. Just an example of some of the costumes folks adorn to jump into Lake Anne in frigid temperatures for the Annual Freezin’ for a Reason Virginia Polar Dip, set to take place on Saturday, Feb. 11.

Summer Lunch Bunch Transports Food to Children in Springfield

Alexandria Commentary: Returning Citizen or Just Plain Citizen

Returning After Incarceration

Securing a job, renting an apartment, voting in an election: things people without a felony conviction do with relative ease.

Burke, Mount Vernon: Copperthite Race Track Receives Historical Marker

2,000-person grandstand once stood in Burke.

More than 100 years since Copperthite Race Track opened in Burke, harnessed race horses once again trotted back and forth on the same grounds, now inhabited by the Burke Nursery and Garden Center.

Stiffened Competition for Transportation Funding

Regional body considers competitive infrastructure projects in light of state funding constriction.

Advantages Of Mixed Use

Dot coms still a threat but optimism remains.

Dot coms still a threat to Retail but optimism remains.

Advantages Of Mixed Use

Dot coms still a threat but optimism remains

Advantages of Mixed Use

Opinion: Commentary: 16 Bills on the Governor’s Desk

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Planning Commission Approves Herndon Parkway Development Plan

Seven-year plan brought forth through cooperation and understanding.

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TC Running Back Eaton a Bright Spot in Lopsided Loss

Titans lose to Robinson, will host Patriot Pioneers on Saturday.

Blood-Stained Hands in Alexandria

City marks 1899 lynching of Benjamin Thomas, who was 16.

It happened just after midnight. On Aug. 8, 1899, 16-year-old Benjamin Thomas was attacked at the city jail on Saint Asaph Street and dragged half a mile by an angry mob of white citizens in what would become the second lynching of an African American man in two years.

The Other Alexandria: Passing The History On – Lois Diggs Davis

Many African American families in Alexandria have family ties back to the pre- and post-Civil War era. One of these families is the Diggs family.

Back in 2014, the City of Alexandria honored the descendants of the Freedmen’s Cemetery, located at Washington and Church Street.

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