Community News and Notes




Kid-Safe Software Hits Falls Church

A new desktop alternative, KidDesktop, has been launched in Falls Church. The program features a customized start screen and personalized activity bar with games and appropriate Web sites, the option to download and view pictures, timed computer sessions, and the ability to navigate the Internet in a safe working environment that is parent controlled.

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Community News and Notes

Community News and Notes

Kid-Safe Software Hits Falls Church A new desktop alternative, KidDesktop, has been launched in Falls Church. The program features a…
High School Pigskin Preview: Coaches Give Their Players-to-Watch Predictions

High School Pigskin Preview: Coaches Give Their Players-to-Watch Predictions

The News-Press takes a look at George Marshall, George Mason, Falls Church and J.E.B. Stuart’s 2008 football teams. (more…)

New FCHS Principal Blogs And Urges Student Feedback

New Falls Church High School Principal Cathy Benner is communicating in an innovative way as classes began this week with…

Falls Church City News Briefs

F.C. ‘Arts District’ Push to Begin Sept. 8 Two leaders of the City of Falls Church’s burgeoning arts community will…

Nicholas F. Benton: Deliver Us From Rick Warren

Last weekend’s spectacle in Orange County, California, was not a debate on faith and values between the two presidential candidates.…

Falls Church Resident and FCHS Teacher Dies at 89

Bernard Howard Garhart, Jr. died on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 in Falls Church, half way through his 90th year. (more…)

F.C. Mayor Predicts Slow Down But No Fiscal Crisis: Gives Annual ‘State of City’ Talk to FCNP

The recent years’ boom in large-scale mixed use projects along the City of Falls Church’s commercial corridors is expected to…
Falls Church Summertime News

Falls Church Summertime News

JEB Stuart Invites Hispanic Parents to PTSA Meeting The JEB Stuart High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association (PTSA) invites Hispanic parents to…
Mothers Learn Their X’s and O’s: It’s ‘Ready, Set Hike’ for Football Moms in Fairfax County

Mothers Learn Their X’s and O’s: It’s ‘Ready, Set Hike’ for Football Moms in Fairfax County

School’s about to be back in session and local jocks aren’t the only ones feeling the rigorous burn from two-a-day…

Editorial: The Election Bull's Eye

Falls Church and its environs sit square in the middle of the battleground where the ultimate outcome of the November…

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