Facing off against tough opposition from Floyd County High in a close game, 53-46, the George Mason High School girls basketball team emerged victorious last Saturday as the 2009 Virginia High School League Division 2 champions.
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Webb Says Afghanistan is Beset With Logistical Woe
Virginia U.S. Senator James Webb told the monthly breakfast meeting of the Northern Virginia Democratic Business Council in Falls Church last Friday that there’s no way the U.S. can build a stable, pro-western nation in Afghanistan, and that if more U.S. troops are sent in there, it should only be […]
Falls Church News Briefs
Arlington’s Byrd Named New GMHS Principal Tyrone Q. Byrd, an Arlington native and currently an assistant principal at Arlington’s Washington-Lee High School, was confirmed by the Falls Church School Board Tuesday to become the new principal at F.C.’s George Mason High School.
Gov. Candidate McAuliffe Shares Vision for Virginia
(This is the first of three News-Press interviews with all three of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia in June.)
School News & Notes
Mason Student Wins Second Place In Poetry Contest Julia Douglas, a student at George Mason High School, won second place in the Poetry Out Loud Competition on March 5 at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.
Mason Girls Head to State Semifinals This Friday
George Mason High’s girls varsity basketball team, the Region B champion, vanquished Northumberland High 57-26 at last Saturday’s Virginia High School League state tournament quarterfinals. The win sends the team to Virginia Commonwealth University’s Stuart C. Siegel Center to face Region A champion Lancaster High this Friday, March 13, at […]
School News & Notes
GMHS Winner Advances in Shakespeare Competition Miles Butler, a junior at George Mason High School, won his school’s competition to advance to the English-Speaking Union (ESU) Washington’s 20th annual Shakespeare Competition at the Lansburgh Theatre in Washington D.C. Monday.
Without Funds, Road & Infrastructure Projects Idle Across Northern Virginia
Construction of long-awaited improvements at the Gallows Road-Lee Highway juncture and the Arlington Boulevard (Rt. 50) pedestrian bridge remained on hold this week as county and state officials work to resolve critical issues impeding the projects’ completion.
Obama Stimulus Saves 7,100 State Jobs, Legislators Report
Northern Virginia legislators, in a series of exclusive interviews with the News-Press yesterday, concurred with the remarks of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, delivered at the conclusion of the Richmond legislative session last week, that President Obama’s massive economic stimulus program has saved 7,100 state jobs in the just-adopted Fiscal Year […]
Lady Mustangs Earn Title Region B Basketball Champions
The George Mason High School girls varsity basketball swept the competition away to win the Region B Tournament Championship game 50-23 against Randolph Henry, held last Saturday at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.
