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Redesigning Tysons Corner
Community forum examines design options and smart growth.
Redesigning Tysons Corner
Questionnaire: Al Van Huyck, Chairman, Board of Supervisors
Questionnaire: Al Van Huyck, Chairman, Board of Supervisors
Stan Barry, Fairfax County Sheriff
Stan Barry, Fairfax County Sheriff
Accessibility Summit Focuses on Caregivers, Families
Workshops provide information on helping those with disabilities leave full lives.
Accessibility Summit Focuses on Caregivers, Families
Redesigning Tysons Corner
Community forum examines design options and smart growth.
Redesigning Tysons Corner
Accessibility Summit Focuses on Caregivers, Families
Workshops provide information on helping those with disabilities leave full lives.
Accessibility Summit Focuses on Caregivers, Families
Hokies Stand Together
A crowd of 1,000 gathers at St. Francis Episcopal Church for candlelight vigil in honor of those killed at Virginia Tech.
Hokies Stand Together

Clemyjontri Park Welcomes Wounded Warriors
Yellow Ribbon Fund hosts picnic for wounded military personnel and their families.
Three days of often-heavy rainfall and a dicey forecast was cause for some concern, but as if on cue, the clouds vanished and the sun shone down on the Yellow Ribbon Fund’s picnic on Sunday, July 22, in Clemyjontri Park in McLean.

From Herndon to Sierra Leone
Floris United Methodist Church leads student service trip.
Emily Lopynski started her Pen Pal relationship with Afiju, a boy of about the same age from the Child Rescue Centre in Bo, Sierra Leone, when she was in the third grade. Lopynski, a Herndon resident, just finished her freshman year at William and Mary College. She and Afiju are still in touch. In fact, their communication over the years has grown. “It was so wonderful when he got access to Facebook,” Lopynski said. “We could really keep up with each other and have a real conversation.” A vast improvement, considering that for most of the time since the two first “met,” their friendship relied on the exchange of letters that sometimes took as long as five months from the writing of one to the reading by the other.
‘Regionality’ of Transportation Projects Questioned
Transportation Authority approves FY2014 Project List.
“Tonight we acted to address one of the greatest threats to our region: Congestion.” So spoke Marty Nohe, chairman of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) and Coles District supervisor for Prince William County. Despite numerous calls to slow down the process by speakers at the public hearing before the Authority, on Wednesday, July 24, the NVTA approved the FY2014 proposed regional multimodal project list as presented and vetted by the NVTA’s Project Implementation Working Group (PIWG) headed by Authority member (and Arlington County Board Member) Christopher Zimmerman.

Wakefield Boys’ Basketball Falls Short in State Semifinals
Warriors finish season with 25 wins, National District title.
The Wakefield boys' basketball team loses to John Marshall at VCU's Siegel Center.

Burke Artist Launches ‘Barn Sale without the Barn’
Think "Upscale Tag Sale" of original art, vintage jewelry and everything in between.
A year ago, I read an article about this new phenomenon called "Barn Sales." These various groups of women in the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia would put all this beautiful antique and vintage furniture for sale in differently-styled vignettes. The kicker was that these vignettes were set up in different stalls of a barn. Each had a different look: Victorian here, retro there, Hollywood regency there, farmhouse chic there, with antiques throughout. As I watched all these people waiting in line eagerly to buy all these vintage and antique and "freshened" goodies, two things occurred to me. 1. The art I was making at the time would look amazing in this venue. 2. Between me and Sharon, we knew where to find or how to make almost everything in the show. On the way home I looked at her and said, "Sharon, let's have a barn sale this fall." and she said, "Where are we going to find a barn in Burke?" And we just decided we didn't need a barn. Hence the tag "Branches: the Barn Sale Without a Barn".
WHS Presents ‘The Crucible’
Salem Witch Trials come to life on stage.
Featuring a cast and crew of 40 — plus original music created by a student — Westfield High presents Arthur Miller’s powerful drama, "The Crucible." Set in 1692 Salem, Mass., it’s the story of a husband and wife and what happens when the husband’s former lover falsely accuses Salem citizens of being witches.
Redesigning Tysons Corner
Community forum examines design options and smart growth.
Redesigning Tysons Corner

Centreville: Joining Together to Help, Support Others
Meet Centreville High’s Wildcats vs. Cancer club.
Centreville High sophomore Valerie Nguyen founded the Wildcats vs. Cancer club at her school to help others. But for her, the battle against this disease is also personal.

Two independents and a Libertarian Offer Variety for Voters in City Council Race
Three candidates hoping to land seats at City Hall without major party labels.
Alexandria politics has long been dominated by Democrats, although Republicans have been successful from time to time.

Inside the Alexandria Police Department: Self Defense
An occasional series, drawn from the Alexandria Citizen’s Police Academy.
The man arrives at the door. One second passes.

First-hand Lesson on Holocaust in Fairfax
Expressions of the Holocaust: GMU group gathers survivors to share memories.
“On the seventy-seventh anniversary of when supposedly civilized nations lost their collective minds, we are here to learn the lesson – first hand - of what can happen when people just stand by and do nothing.”