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Herndon Celebrates
Herndon Labor Day Festival: Great weather, great event.
The sponsors, vendors, performers and the army of volunteers who produced the 2016 Herndon Labor Day Festival no doubt worked up a sweat during the 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. event, but for the festival goers it wasn’t hard work to have a lot of fun.
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Herndon: Building a Family for 25 Years
Herndon Children’s Center celebrates 25th anniversary.
The Herndon Children’s Center (HCC), caring for and educating area kids from 3 months to pre-school, has been “building a family” for 25 years in the same location off of Spring St. in Herndon.
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Alexandria: ‘We Will Never Forget’
City to mark 15th anniversary of 9-11 attacks.
It was an unimaginable act of terrorism that took the lives of 13 Alexandria residents on Sept. 11, 2001. On Saturday, Sept. 10, the City of Alexandria will hold a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of what remains the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
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Mount Vernon: New MVHS principal brings new mission and vision.
It might surprise some people, Mount Vernon High School Principal Dr. Anthony Terrell said, but 90 percent of students at his school — with a 54 percent poverty rate — are consistently on time to class.
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Burke: Students return, principals stress inter-student encouragement.
South County High School senior Dominique Butler remembers skipping class as a freshman. But when she saw how it was affecting her chances at going to college, she turned things around. When she saw freshmen from her neighborhood on the first day of school, she made sure they wouldn’t make the same mistakes she did.
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Springfield: Students return, principals stress inter-student encouragement
South County High School senior Dominique Butler remembers skipping class as a freshman. But when she saw how it was affecting her chances at going to college, she turned things around. When she saw freshmen from her neighborhood on the first day of school, she made sure they wouldn’t make the same mistakes she did.
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Fairfax Station, Lorton: Students return, principals stress inter-student encouragement
South County High School senior Dominique Butler remembers skipping class as a freshman. But when she saw how it was affecting her chances at going to college, she turned things around. When she saw freshmen from her neighborhood on the first day of school, she made sure they wouldn’t make the same mistakes she did.
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Mount Vernon Letter: An Immigrant’s Story
Letter to the Editor
July 4, 1962: I left the Philippines and arrived in Rochester, Minn. all on the same date, even though 24 hours have passed because of the different time zones. I was 23 years old, a registered nurse, college graduate and two years of work experience.
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Mount Vernon: Church Holds 8th Annual Back-to-School Festival
Harvest Assembly Baptist Church encourages school success.
Hundreds of children participated in Harvest Assembly Baptist Church’s 8th annual Back to School Festival on Sept. 3.
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La Bienvenida a Alexandria
McAuliffe visits Alexandria’s International Academy on first day of school.
The students arrived at T.C. Williams High School by school bus or by car. Gov.r Terry McAuliffe arrived via helicopter parked on the lawn.
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Alexandria: Police Investigate Rape over Labor Day Weekend
According to Alexandria Police, a 24-year-old woman said she was raped by a man with a gun at the pool she worked at in the 200 block of South Pickett Street. The incident happened on Sept. 3 and was reported to police around 2 p.m. The woman is a lifeguard at the pool. No other people were present during the incident.
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Alexandria: New Chapter for Port City Brewing Company
The mayor, the governor, and the CEO of a brewing company walk into a bar …
Port City Brewing Company, an Alexandria-based brewery, is making a major step to increase its manufacturing capacity with the help of state and city funds.
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Alexandria: Arrest Amplifies Questions about City’s Noise Ordinances
Old Town opera singer arrested.
Busking is the act of performing in public, typically singing or playing music, in exchange for a gratuity. Anyone visiting Old Town Alexandria late at night has likely seen buskers along King Street, whether they’re playing folk songs on guitar or hymnals on a glass harp. While buskers are a staple of Old Town for many, Alexandria has a history of struggling with their presence in the developing city.
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Alexandria People at Work: Gonzalez Creates Art as a Team
"O.K. everyone, out on the field." Arms grab trumpets, clarinets, with a shoulder harness for the drum. Band members head out the door, down the steps and onto the end of the football field at T. C. Williams High School on a hot first school day of the year.
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Alexandria: Faces of Hunger
Stories from a church’s “pop-up” grocery.
Third in a series on childhood hunger in Alexandria.
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Alexandria Letter: Forgotten Pedestrians
Letter to the Editor
Just recently, the Redfin Corporation ranked Arlington as the third in a list of the 10 most walkable communities in the country.
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Alexandria Letter: Must Our Elections Be This Way?
Letter to the Editor
Well this is another election year and it seems like it never fails to be everywhere. In print, on the screen and airwaves, both in the USA and other places, but even now it is worse with the internet. Being so difficult to avoid makes it sickening.
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Alexandria Letter: Democrats’ Focus
Letter to the Editor
Local politicians have been given their talking points in the presidential contest, but none more risible than Vice President Biden’s former economic advisor who parrots the liberal line about Democrats’ economic policies helping the poor and middle class.
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Alexandria Letter: Unusual Enforcement?
Letter to the Editor
Krista Monique Clouse, a talented and award-winning opera singer, has been singing on the streets of Old Town Alexandria for the past six years.