Local dog owners and their four-legged companions have begun volunteering hand in paw with the People Animals Love group to bring furry friendship to the young-at-heart residents at the Goodwin House retirement community in Bailey’s Crossroads.
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Schools Get Full Funding as F.C. Council Adopts Budget
Tax Rate Rises To $1.07, 7 City Jobs Are Cut By the time the final vote was taken on the City of Falls Church Fiscal Year 2010 budget Monday night, the Falls Church City Council was in full agreement, and voted unanimously to adopt the $66.6 million package that […]
Falls Church Skaters, Residents Defend Skate Park Amidst Recent Controversy
Falls Church residents and law-abiding skateboarders alike are speaking out against the recent bad wrap given to the mobile skateboard facilities at Madison Park in a recent letter to the editor sent to the News-Press.
Editorial: Inauguration Day
Not more than seven miles, as the crow flies, from the site of the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama that will take place next Tuesday, the City of Falls Church, as with the entire region, is preparing to be rocked by one of the biggest and happiest parties the nation […]
A Penny for Your Thoughts: News from Greater Falls Church
Merry Christmas! As many Mason District residents observe their religious traditions by attending Midnight Mass or other appropriate religious services, others are hard at work, making sure that our community is safe and that folks needing emergency services – from police, fire, health care providers, social workers, etc. – have […]
Community News & Notes
Local Arlingtonian Pens New Novel Arlington author Suzy Beamer Bohnert has a new book available titled “Game-Day Goddess: Learning Basketball’s Lingo,” which is available on Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) and Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com). Published by B&B Publishing, “Game-Day Goddess: Learning Basketball’s Lingo” documents the action seen on television or heard on […]
Community News & Notes
F.C. Rotary Discusses Youth Programs John Freeman will be speaking on “Kingsley Commons Youth Programs” at the Falls Church Rotary Club meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30 at the Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). Dinner costs $11. For more information, call Joe Scheibeler at 202-268-5089.
Grandparents Club Unites Young & Young at Heart
It wasn’t long into her 12 year tenure at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School that teacher Maryel Barry conceived the idea for a club that would unite old and young alike in the bonds of friendship and respect.
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Community News and Notes
Local Wedding Announcement Miriam Leonard and David Horgan are happy to announce that they will be married on Saturday, Sept. 20 on the lawn of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Leonard is the daughter of Eugene and Carol Leonard of Falls Church. Horgan is the son of Cornelius […]
