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Community-Building Skills and Passion for Service
Tara Ruszkowski is The Lamb Center’s new executive director.
Lamb Center
Chantilly Day: Food, Fun, Music and Astronauts
Third annual Chantilly Day celebration is May 17, 2014
Fun for the whole family is planned for the third annual Chantilly Day celebration, Saturday, May 17, at the Sully Place Shopping Center, off Route 50 West in Chantilly. There’ll be two U.S. astronauts, live music and dancing, food and children’s activities. The festival runs from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., rain or shine, in the Kmart and Babies R Us parking lots. The day’s events will include onstage performances by the Chantilly High Jazz Ensemble and Latin Dance Club, School of Rock Centreville, a pet adoption, trackless train, robotics demonstration, business expo and awards ceremony.
Fairfax: Remembering Harold Skeins
Family, community remember Harold Skeins.
Some 60 people gathered Sunday night on the basketball court in Fairfax’s Ratcliffe Park for a candlelight vigil in memory of Harold Skeins.
Robertson Indicted for Murder of Fairfax Man
Judge hears recording of his confession during hearing.
Murder
‘I Put It in God’s Hands’
Looking at her husband’s badly damaged police cruiser, with the rear end demolished and the passenger side caved in, affected Beverly Akhavan profoundly.
Local Man Charged with Setting Fires
Occupants were home asleep at the time.
Culminating months of work, investigators from the Fairfax County Fire Marshal’s Office have charged a local man with two felonies for allegedly setting fires in homes while their occupants were asleep.
Local Man Charged with Setting Fires
Occupants were home asleep at the time.
Culminating months of work, investigators from the Fairfax County Fire Marshal’s Office have charged a Fairfax man with two felonies for allegedly setting fires in homes while their occupants were asleep. He is Mergen Battulga, 37, of Fair Oaks.
Joyful Ribbon Cutting on a Cold, Brisk Day
Route 28 widening in Centreville is nearly done.
Area motorists may now rejoice because the road has been widened from four to six lanes between the bridge over Bull Run (south of Compton Road), at the Prince William County line, and the Route 29 Interchange in Centreville.
History for Sojourners
Centreville’s Newgate Tavern receives interpretive signs.
The Newgate Tavern played an important role in Centreville’s history, but the average resident knows little about it. Now, though, thanks to three interpretive signs just placed at its former site in the Historic District, people may visit and learn about what happened there.
Clifton Man Also To Be Honored
Two battles with lymphoma.
David Timko became the executive director of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Washington, D.C., chapter in 1987 and, the following year, helped create the fund-raising Leukemia Ball. Little did he know then that he’d someday be one of the event’s patient heroes.
They Gather To Do Good
Social Change group raises money for charities.
When ordinary people work together for a good cause, extraordinary things can happen. And that’s been the case so far with a local group called Social Change.
Chantilly Students Win National Art Medals
Diana Tsoy honored for photography, Jason Ly for printmaking.
Senior Diana Tsoy won a silver medal for her photography portfolio and classmate Jason Ly won a silver medal for printmaking.
Centreville: ‘He and Erin Are Together’
Grafton Peterson, Virginia Tech victim’s father, dies at 57.
Like most people, Grafton Peterson experienced both great joy and great sadness in his life. He had a long and happy marriage and two children he adored. But he outlived both his daughters and, on March 18, succumbed to a heart attack at age 57.
‘We’re in Uncharted Territory, to the Extreme’ in Fairfax City
City Manager recommends Fiscal Year ’21 budget cuts.
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‘Warm, Welcoming – You’re Basically Doing Yoga with Friends’ in Clifton
WheelHouse’s new studio is in the Colonnade at Union Mill.
Yoga
Heroic Adventure at Rocky Run
Rocky Run Middle presents ‘Stefanie Hero.’
Heroic Adventure at Rocky Run
Heroic Adventure at Rocky Run
Rocky Run Middle presents ‘Stefanie Hero.’
Heroic Adventure at Rocky Run
Herrity: ‘This Park Is Near and Dear to My Heart’ in Centreville
Park Authority Board approves Braddock Park’s revised plan.
New park
Centreville: Homes Instead of Offices at Trinity Centre
Developer wants to build 355 apartments at the Trinity Centre.
As the area office market continues to stall, more and more land-use applications are proposing to replace planned office uses with residential communities. One of the latest proposals is at the Trinity Centre, off Route 29, in Centreville.