Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Thursday, March 23, 2023
The Little City recorded a history that is part prominent and part ignored. An eye-opening example of an omission is the recent uncovering of details on the racially exclusionary real estate covenants common in new subdivisions a century ago. Language in sales agreements that denied access to disfavored groups turns […]
Most Arlingtonians recall their whereabouts on July 8, 2019, when the flash floods came. (I was walking in the rain along Fairfax Drive toward Central Library when I was astonished to see a manhole cover bobbing up and down from water pressure.) Among the hardest hit was Westover, where an […]
As the war in Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary, at least two Falls Churchians are following the tragedy with personal interest. Olga Kosenko and Gennadii Zinchenko, a married couple who are both city employees, have friends and relatives who’ve been killed or have chosen to remain in the war zone. […]
Transatlantic plaudits to the Arlington Heights Civic Association, for forging new ties with historical allies in the United Kingdom. The “Friendship Community Relationship”—not as elaborate as the larger sister city program but still fun—was just announced by association delegate Mark Murawski. The goal is to “open the lines of communication” […]
Reader, please tolerate a surplus of numbers. They represent a deficit of meals for local compatriots. “Food Insecurity,” as examined Jan. 11 at the Arlington Committee of 100, has worsened in our pandemic times. But a coalition of county, school, and nonprofit professionals and volunteers has new plans for spreading […]
The tacked-up signs in the Courthouse neighborhood near the Innovation School displayed slogans: “No School Overcrowding,” “Don’t Displace Our Seniors,” “More Trees, Less Flooding.” The Jan. 8 “Realty Check” rally, organized by Arlingtonians for Our Sustainable Future and Arlingtonians for Upzoning Transparency, drew several hundred to the school multi-purpose room […]
“Once a Warrior, always a Warrior.” That’s the slogan of the impressive Wakefield High School Education Foundation, whose autumn newsletter shows off what I believe is tops-in-the-county dedication for a high school alumni group caring both for fellow graduates and current needy students. The all-volunteer 501(C)3 just underwent a change […]
Herewith a grown man’s update on his childhood neighborhood of Cherrydale. Following an astonishing coincidence after mutual friends set us up for a book project, I was pleased to get acquainted with the couple who since the 1980s have owned the house on N. Monroe St. that my family occupied […]
Herewith a nearly forgotten local Christmas story. Trinity Presbyterian Church, up the “hillside” from Westover Village, boasts an outdoor chapel in the woods, a rich history of activism in the 1950s civil rights movement and the onetime location on its property of the grave of 19th-century plantation owner Basil […]
The vaunted “Arlington Way” has become a political football. The concept, dating to the 1980s, of active consultation between our governors and governed, is the subject of a lengthy draft statement blasting county government assembled over months by experienced activists in the Arlington Civic Federation. “Whereas, in this process Arlington […]
