Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Mansion on a hill for sale. With a storied history. The old M.T. Broyhill Place, looming at 2561 N. Vermont overlooking the Washington Golf and Country Club, is empty and on the market for $3.6 million. When owner Helena Metzger died this February at 88, her beneficiary—the Catholic Prelature […]
A surprising portion of our citizenry appears unfamiliar with the grim legacy the American Nazi Party left during its militant presence in Arlington,1958 —1983. Its charismatic, nationally dreaded leader George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated at the Dominion Hills Shopping Center on Aug. 25, 1967. The man convicted of that […]
In the first 10 months of 2022, 18 pedestrian deaths have been recorded on Fairfax County roadways. The most recent pedestrian death was last week on Leesburg Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads, where a woman was struck by one vehicle, and then, according to the police investigation, was struck by a […]
Seeking a crystal ball for next steps in the Missing Middle housing debate, I watched the Oct. 17 meeting of credentialed volunteers on the Long Range Planning Committee, part of Arlington’s Planning Commission. The tone was civil, and members have clearly heard the protests against the preliminary framework mostly from […]
In this era of renamings, there’s one longstanding Arlington school whose shedding of its moniker seems lost in mists of time. Page Elementary, at 1501 N. Lincoln St. in my boyhood neighborhood of Cherrydale, was built in 1953 during the postwar baby boom—a time when our county was bent on […]
The call came from a longtime business owner in Mason District, reporting the theft of several checks from the U.S. mail. The amounts were not insignificant, and he wanted to alert me to the problem. I told him that, indeed, I was aware of the problem, as I had experienced […]
Local history commemorators have embarked on a fresh but potentially delicate project. The Arlington Historical Society has won two grants for its volunteers to trace, document and map out the locations in Arlington where enslaved persons labored in the 18th and 19th centuries. The result may include an array of […]
Less than a week after Fairfax County’s launch of “Take A Moment,” a countywide campaign to eliminate traffic-related deaths and injuries, a hit-and-run driver killed an elderly woman who was crossing Annandale Road in downtown Annandale. The driver did not stop, leaving the victim abandoned in a heap in the […]
By David B. Bjerke, Director of Elections for the City of Falls Church The midterm elections are fast approaching, and you should know about changes in Virginia Election Laws. First the upcoming election will only have one contest: The United States House of Representatives, 8th District. A short but important […]
The county and school boards for our 21st century citizenry trundle along with a 90-year-old system of elections and governance. Hence the all-volunteer Arlington Civic Federation, after two years of research and public forums by a task force, released recommendations for a “once-in-a generation” restructuring aimed at improving citizen participation and […]
