In a monthly update on the City of Falls Church’s fiscal situation presented to a work session of the City Council last night, Acting Chief Financial Officer Melissa Ryman reported that real estate tax revenues actually collected in the first three weeks of July, applied to the fiscal year ending June 30, came in $191,801 below projections. A decline in expenditures by $161,449 has mitigated the effect of the tax collection shortfall for FY10 so far.

Every Eight Hours: This September, Make Checking In a Habit
BY JOHN F. CROWNOVER Every eight hours, Virginia loses someone to suicide. In 2023, 1,230 Virginians died by suicide, and nearly four out of five were men. They were fathers,


