The total taxable assessed value for all properties in the City of Falls Church as of Jan. 1, 2012, is $3,229,692,600, a four percent increase from January 1, 2011, the City's Public Information Office revealed today.

With five members of the Falls Church City Council sitting in the front row, center, a beaming President Barack Obama bounced onto the podium at the James Lee Community Center on Annandale Road this morning to a standing, cheering reception from 400 people, waved and proclaimed, "It is great to be back in Falls Church!"

Following on the recent court ruling remanding all properties currently occupied by breakaway congregations from the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia back to the diocese, Virginia Episcopal Bishop Shannon Johnston called the current time "one of the most defining moments in all of our 400 year history" in a pastoral address given to the 217th annual Virginia Diocese Council meeting in Reston yesterday.