After brushing aside a constant downpour followed by brutal heat, the best swimmers at High Point Pool in Falls Church held their own in a meet featuring the fastest from across the Northern Virginia region, posting numerous personal-best times in the All-Star Individual Meet at Little Rocky Run last Saturday.
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The Peak Oil Crisis: Smart Meters
It’s going to be an electric world. For those of you who have been following the peak oil story, it is becoming increasingly clear that liquid fuels for the average person’s transportation has a very short half-life. It won’t be long before we figure out that natural gas is too […]
Mason High Girls Take 2nd on Track
Led by distance double-winner Susanna Sullivan, the George Mason girls track and field team jumped, sprinted, hurdled and relayed its way to a second-place trophy in last Friday’s Region B Championship in Charlottesville. Now sights are set on the Group A State Championship meet, which starts Saturday at Radford University.
With New Hands at the Helm, GMHS Tracksters Hope To Make ’08 Great
With a new coach at the helm and a strong core of returning runners, the George Mason High School track team looks poised for another strong showing throughout their single A schedule this season.
Young Swimmers Make a Splash Early Despite Mason Loss
In their first season as a varsity sport last year, the upstart George Mason High School swim team surprised a few teams en route to becoming one of the more potent Single A clubs in the state.
Falls Church Summertime News
Beat the heat this week and experience some great events.
Fall Church Summertime! News
“BORN TO BE WILD” was the title of the production culminating a three-week summer youth “arts adventure camp” run by Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron last Friday at the Mason District Park amphitheatre. More than 50 youth participated in the program coordinated by Laura Connors Hull. Other key leaders of the […]
Our Man in Arlington
Few of my columns have received as much reaction as my recent commentary on parking Nazis at the Arlington Farmer’s Market.
Our Man in Arlington
As a political junky, I was beginning to despair that there were no defining issues in this year’s County Board race. People here seem to be reasonably satisfied with the direction our government has taken over the last several years, and they should be.
