Fairfax County officials have waited a decade now for public school buses to be outfitted with video cameras, and their patience is wearing thin.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Tuesday (Feb. 7) asking Fairfax County Public Schools to explain why it has yet to implement a school bus stop-arm camera program that staff started exploring back in 2013.
The three-alarm fire that ignited in an Annandale apartment on Sunday (Feb. 5) displaced 22 people, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department reported today (Thursday).
The fire broke out in the living room of apartments in Little River Square at the 7400 block of Little River Turnpike. Two residents were taken to the hospital. No other injuries were reported.
Beware of Tax Scam — “Some residents may have received a ‘distraint warrant’ letter from the ‘Tax Assessment Securities.’ This scam alleges that a warrant has been issued against the recipient due to delinquent tax debt and states the Federal Tax Authorities may take enforcement action to satisfy the debt. Fairfax County did not send this letter and is not connected with it in any way.” [Department of Tax Administration]
Virginia Task Force 1 Lands in Turkey — “WHEELS DOWN: Two flights carrying @usaid search and rescue experts from @vatf1 @ffxfirerescue & @LACOFD just touched down in #Türkiye. Team members will soon be working to search for survivors of these deadly earthquakes.” [USAID/Twitter]
By Brian Trompeter
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Fairfax recently honored public-service professionals at a chapter meeting, and presented a Law Enforcement Medal and Commendation to Capt. Tu Farhan of the Vienna Police Department.
Efforts by a local legislator to ensure Virginia’s electoral votes are cast the way voters intended died in a House of Delegates subcommittee.
Del. Rip Sullivan (D-McLean-Arlington) patroned legislation that would have established a process for removing a presidential elector who did not fulfill a pledge to vote for his/her party’s nominee.
By Brian Trompeter
Mere moments into the Vienna Town Council’s Jan. 30 meeting, officials addressed the No. 1 topic of concern: an extremely rare armed carjacking that had occurred two days earlier in a southeast Vienna residential area.
Those seeking to rent apartments in the Tysons area these days are shelling out more – sometimes much more – compared to a year before.
With median rental rates of $1,996 for one-bedroom units and $2,835 for two bedrooms, January’s rental costs were up 6.9 percent from a year before, according to a new data analysis from Apartment List.
By Brian Trompeter
Patrons of Northern Virginia’s libraries take access to them for granted, but many of the facilities were for whites only until the late 1950s and early 1960s.
WHITNEY PIPKIN
Bay Journal News Service
By Brian Trompeter
The town of Vienna will use an additional $1.35 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to improve water mains.
