Cunningham Park Elementary School

Vienna police arrest ‘suspicious’ man who pointed object at Cunningham Park ES students

Published August 31, 2022 at 1:30PM

Cunningham Park Elementary School in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A man was arrested yesterday (Tuesday) after reportedly pointing an object that observers initially thought might be a gun at Cunningham Park Elementary School students.

Vienna police were dispatched to the school around 12:51 p.m. in response to a report of a suspicious person described “as an older white male with no shirt, who possibly had a long gun and was pointing it at students,” the Town of Vienna Police Department said in a news release today (Wednesday).

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Cunningham Park art teacher and students brighten school sidewalk with rainbow mural

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 4, 2022 at 3:00PM

Cunningham Park kindergarten student Connor Pollak says the replica road is his favorite part of the mural (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

When Cunningham Park Elementary School Principal Katherine Le asked if she would paint a mural for the school, Ellen Singletary responded as any job interviewee would: she said yes.

Singletary landed the job, becoming the art teacher for the Vienna school of roughly 400 students, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, it took more than two years for that proposed mural to materialize.