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Monday, December 4, 2023
Friday, Dec. 1 — In an exclusive comment to the News-Press late this afternoon, Dr. Peter Noonan, superintendent of the Falls Church City Schools said that the schools and representatives of the Falls Church City Education Association are “very close” to arriving at a contract agreement as the system’s first […]
Boston, MA, Nov. 30 — Two of the most important pioneers in the identification and ongoing research into the terrible impacts of repeated blows to the head in contact sports opened the annual conference on the subject held at Boston University today. Dr. Ann McKee and Dr. Bob Stern made powerful presentations of […]
Thursday, Nov. 30 — Virginia’s Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and Reps. Don Beyer, Gerry Connolly, Morgan Griffith Jen Kiggans, Jennifer McClellan, Bobby Scott, Abigail Spanberger, Jennifer Wexton, and Rob Wittman today welcomed the news that the Inspector General (IG) of the General Services Administration (GSA) will initiate an investigation into the site selection to relocate the […]
via Editor & Publisher Magazine The News/Media Alliance announced that the Canadian government for today’s deal with Google for its payment for the use of valuable news content on its search platform. The amount negotiated is reported to be $100 million per year, down from the $172 million called for by the Canadian […]
Winter sports season has officially tipped off, with Meridian High School’s boys’ basketball team hosting its season opener on Tuesday night against Kettle Run for a divisional showdown. The team was without senior big man Grant Greiner, who is out for a few weeks with a wrist injury, but with […]
“Listen, kids who die — Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you, Except in our hearts, Maybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp, Or a prison grave, or the potter’s field, Or the rivers where you’re drowned like Liebknecht. But the day will come — You are […]
Last weekend Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday ushered in the 2023 holiday shopping season, and U.S. consumers were ready. Americans spent a record $9.8 billion on Black Friday, a 7.5 percent increase from 2022, and a record $12.4 billion, a 9.6 percent increase, on Cyber Monday. But […]
Federal Covid Relief Funds Help Businesses, Customers With remaining federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA) funds aimed at helping communities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic beginning to run low, the City of Falls Church has reintroduced its creative way of putting those resources into direct support of small local businesses through […]
As we are committed to doing all we can to boost the viability of newspapers in our land, we lament, on the one hand, the fact that The Washington Post is still needing to lose about 280 staff members to remain solvent and, on the other, to hail and give […]
Florida Students Push Back On Monday, at Monarch High School in Broward County, Florida, the principal, assistant principal, athletics director, and an information management technician have been reassigned to “non-school sites,” and the school’s temporary volleyball coach’s “services are paused,” while law enforcement officials with the Broward County Special Investigative […]
