Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Thursday, September 29, 2022
Signature Theatre: Signature Theatre in Arlington is starting their 2022-23 season with performances of “The Color Purple” and “No Place to Go;” the former running until October 9th and the latter until October 16th. In November and December, productions of “Into the Woods” and “Which Way to the Stage” will […]
As Signature Theatre hosts its final shows in their reopening sea-son, “The Color Purple” was a sub-stantial finale to a successful 2021/22 season. Based on the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, “The Color Purple” was adapted into a 2005 Broadway musical, 20 years after the Academy Award-nominated film […]
David Tarter, in his fourth term as mayor of the City of Falls Church, recently took time to speak with the News-Press and reflect on this past year in what has become an annual August tradition updating his views on the “state of the city.” This time he touched on […]
Vehicle owners in the City of Falls Church will likely see an increase in the Personal Property Tax (also known as the “car tax”) when bills are delivered to mailboxes this week. In April, the F.C. City Council approved a 14 percent temporary decrease in the personal property tax rate […]
Electric vehicles (EVs) get a lot of attention, from Super Bowl ads to a vice presidential visit to Falls Church to celebrate our electric school buses. But the hype doesn’t help with practical questions many of us have about EVs. Are EVs really better for the environment? When does it […]
The topic of affordable housing has been talked and argued about throughout the years, yet there doesn’t seem to be a direct conclusion about what can be done. In the City of Falls Church, there have been discussions on the future of affordable housing in the area, as well as […]
Virginia’s U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following a statement today after a court released a redacted version of the affidavit that prompted federal law enforcement to search Mar-a-Lago. “It appears, based on the affidavit unsealed this morning, that among the improperly handled documents at Mar-a-Lago […]
News of the major deal by the City of Falls Church to sell a 7.42 acre property that has been home to the Northern Virginia campus of Virginia Tech since 1995 was this paper’s lead story for its July 28 edition. It is part of a massive overall deal to convert three separate properties by the West Falls Church Metro station into over 40 acres of one of the biggest multi-use business and commercial campuses in the entire region.
Classes commence starting next Monday in all five City of Falls Church public schools. They began this week in neighboring Fairfax County.
Two suspects are wanted for an overnight burglary of Coleman Power Sports (435 S. Washington Street). At about 12:15 a.m. on Tuesday, August 23, two Polaris Slingshot 3-wheeled motorcycles were stolen. The first, a 2022 blue Polaris Slingshot, is valued at $33,600. The second, a 2020 blue and black Polaris […]
