Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Adult and Community Education (ACE) recently announced two of its Adult and Community Education Training and Scholarship Foundation recipients for spring 2023 classes.
Darlene Wilcher and Miguel Anco, both students in the Apprenticeship track, have been awarded financial support for the upcoming session.
By Brian Trompeter
Instead of drifting through life and taking what comes, speakers at The Women’s Center’s 37th annual Leadership Conference will encourage attendees to develop action plans tailored to their interests and goals.
By Brian Trompeter
Citing ongoing threats to Vienna’s tree canopy from development, Vienna Town Council members on March 6 expressed support for key recommendations of a recent tree-canopy study.
By Brian Trompeter
Firefighter Ryan McGill of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department since 2018 has researched cancer risks to those in his profession and advocated for them to take stronger protective measures and scrupulously document exposure to potentially harmful substances.
By Brian Trompeter
After 32 years in the state Senate, Janet Howell (D-Reston-Arlington) is ready to bring her career to a close.
By Brian Trompeter
A proposed major mixed-use redevelopment at the West Falls Church Metrorail station seeks a nearly 45-percent parking reduction for its multi-family residential buildings, but the McLean Citizens Association on March 1 said a study by Gorove Slade Transportation Planners and Engineers justifying so much less parking was decidedly flawed.
(Updated at 12:10 p.m. on 3/9/2023) A plan to reconfigure the West Falls Church Metro station’s parking and bus facilities in anticipation of redevelopment will soon be finalized.
The finance and capital committee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Board of Directors is set to vote tomorrow (Thursday) on whether to accept a staff report recommending the proposed changes, which would significantly reduce the number of parking spaces and bus bays at the station in Idylwood.
Sandy Anderson, an educator, military spouse, and mother of two, will seek to represent the Springfield District on the Fairfax County School Board.
Announcing her candidacy on Friday (Mar. 3), Anderson is the only Democrat in the race so far and faces two Republican challengers. School board elections are nonpartisan, but candidates can get endorsements from political parties.
After an unsolicited redevelopment proposal was pulled by a developer, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is charting a new future for the Bowman Towne Court site in Reston.
At a board meeting yesterday (Tuesday), the board approved a motion by Hunter Mill District Supervisor Walter Alcorn to procure the 4.5-acre site and direct the RTC North task force to help plan its future.
Fairfax County and the Virginia Department of Transportation have kicked off construction to widen a 1.5-mile stretch of Route 29 near Centreville.
Though there will be a ceremonial groundbreaking today (Wednesday), construction on the project began Feb. 9 to add two lanes to the roadway between Union Mill Road and Buckleys Gate Drive.
