Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Meridian’s girls’ basketball team played host to Skyline High School on Tuesday night, looking to stay unbeaten at home as well as in conference play. Maureen Tremblay got things off to a fast start with two early buckets, and then Peyton Jones, who returned to the starting lineup, hit a […]
U.S. Rep. Don Beyer of Falls Church and Northern Virginia, and outgoing chair of Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, issued the following statement today on the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) advance estimate for the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) that found that the U.S. economy grew by 2.9 percent in the fourth […]
Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic affected the nation, local home buyers are now seeing more available options as the housing market slows down. According to a December 2022 Virginia Home Sales Report by Virginia REALTORS — the largest trade association in Virginia, — Virginia’s housing market has slowed “considerably” […]
Of course, the timing of revelations like this is always an issue (such as in this case, the fact it awaited the transition to a new party in control of the House), but the arrest of perhaps the most consequential person at the FBI, Charlie McGonigal, for ostensible espionage on […]
FCEF Employee Award Nominees Announced The FCCPS Prize Patrol, consisting of FCCPS & FCEF Leadership surprised the nominees for the FCCPS employee awards at school. The winner of each award will be announced in April. All nominees and winners will be recognized at the FCCPS Celebration of Excellence in May. […]
Volunteers are not paid – not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless! Fairfax County has 10 elected members of the Board of Supervisors and a large, experienced, and pro-active staff to provide services to the million-plus residents who call Fairfax County home. Some of those residents also […]
In Thornton Wilder’s powerful 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play about small-town America, the narrator’s introduction showing the audience around a small New England town in 1901 includes the following: “In those days our newspaper came out twice a week—the Grover’s Corners Sentinel—and this is Editor Webb’s house.” The Sentinel, Editor […]
New Vehicle Charging Fees Coming Soon Starting February 1, 2023, the City will implement a new fee structure for its electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. This new fee structure is intended to encourage EV use (first hour free), recoup costs to the City (per kWh charge after the first hour), […]
Wednesday, the Virginia House Education Early Childhood/Innovation Subcommittee voted to table HB 1434, effectively killing the bill. Narissa Rahaman, Executive Director of Equality Virginia, released the following statement after the vote: “We applaud the subcommittee’s decision to table HB 1434. This bill served no educational purpose and was entirely unnecessary. LGBTQ+ students thrive […]
The Meridian Mustang girls basketball team welcomed the Brentsville Tigers to Falls Church on Friday night, looking to continue their undefeated start to conference play after winning their previous two matchups by an average margin of 50 – yes, 50 – points. The JV squad got the evening started […]
