In the run-up to Memorial Day and the official start of swimming pool season for many neighborhoods, we sometimes lose track of other annual springtime events where we say “thank you” to those who make a difference in our community. Here are some that didn’t make the “other paper.”
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Falls Church Business News & Notes
Business news and notes for Apri 24 – April 30, 2008.
Mason High’s Broderick Named Northern Va. Coach of Year
Bill Broderick, in just his second year at the helm of the George Mason High School girls basketball squad, earned the Region B Coach of the Year award for leading his squad to the Single A, Division 2 region title. However, the accolades did not stop there. Once the Mustangs […]
School News and Notes
Spanish-speaking clowns of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey performed for Luther Jackson Middle School students and their families, teaching them about circus history and its deeply-rooted Latin American Heritage. (Photo: Courtesy Lauren Dyke)
School News and Notes
Spring Hill elementary students (left to right) Ashley Tseng, John Bucy and Emily Hamilton encouraged peers to conserve energy with compact fluorescent light bulbs at an assembly last week in honor of the upcoming Earth Day, April 22. (Photo: Courtesy Le-Ha Anderson)
This Week’s Business News and Notes
March 27 – April 2, 2008
Community News and Notes
THE FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS deployed a team of investigators to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, last weekend to probe the status of spring training baseball there and, as shown here, examine allegations by GQ magazine that the burgers at Le Tub Restaurant in neighboring Hollywood, Fla., are the best in the U.S. […]
Benton, New Businesses Honored by F.C. Council
Falls Church News-Press owner Nicholas F. Benton, the City of Falls Church’s “2007 Business Person of the Year,” has run his business in the City for 20 years, but almost all the other award winners feted by the City Council Monday night are brand new.
School News and Notes
Key Middle School students (left to right) Max Benitos, Kelly Catherine and Zachary Adams created art as a means of universal communication with students in Ghana who will receive the art in April and, in response, create their own to send back to Key Middle. (Photo: Elyse Rosenburg)
This Week’s Business News and Notes
March 13 – 19, 2007
