Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Monday, May 29, 2023
By: Erika Toman The Majors regular season championship game epitomized the best of Little League. It was an epic battle between the Hammerheads and the Cherry Bombs. The Cherry Bombs struck in the top of the first when a passed ball and throwing error allowed two runs to score. The […]
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine was greeted by a new level of Vietnamese-American community activism in the Viet Place Collective (VPC) at Eden Center, a Little City gem and Vietnamese cultural hub, in a tour and luncheon roundtable with regional leaders of the Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities […]
The owner of two prominent Little City businesses is this year’s Grand Marshal for the upcoming 41st Annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 29. Selected by The City of Falls Church’s Recreation and Parks Advisory Board for her “extensive community involvement” with various local organizations, Rebecca Tax will preside […]
By Mark Dreisonstok Twenty years ago, Dr. Katerina Souvorova, who has served as a vocal coach at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, had a vision: she would establish an opera company in Northern Virginia which would present opera outside of traditional large opera houses, instead focusing on more intimate settings […]
A comprehensive opinion survey commissioned by the F.C. City Council has found the City of Falls Church is appreciated by its residents in virtually every aspect of its life. The president of a Newport Beach, Calif., firm that has done similar surveys for hundreds of communities across the U.S., presented […]
New OSE Club Has Successful Start Let Me Run — Falls Church City, a running group that began this spring for fourth and fifth-grade boys at Oak Street, had a successful inaugural season under the leadership of coaches James Thompson, David Newton, Peter Balazy and Joe Larson. The group of […]
CBC Vets, Forwards 3 Dozen Students to Council to Serve Falls Church’s Citizens for a Better City (CBC) accepted applications, vetted and recommended over three dozen high school student applicants to serve as non-voting members of the City’s boards, commissions and selected civil groups. The CBC swore in the students […]
The postseason has either already begun or is set to begin this week for all spring sports programs at Meridian High School. All are still alive, and most of them play at least one game at home in the coming days. Here’s where they all stand. Baseball capped off its […]
Is Trump just the beginning? Is the worst four years in U.S. history since the Civil War, that period when Trump was actually president, only a foretaste of what is to come? Are people going to look back 100 years from now and wonder why this educated, well-off population of […]
City Council Declares June 2023 Pride Month in The Little City On Monday, F.C. City Council declared June 2023 Pride Month, and this writer was honored to accept the proclamation on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, in my roles as President and Executive Director of NOVA Pride, and Executive Director […]
