FFXnow readers now have online access to archives of the GazetteLeader community newspaper from 2023 through 2024.
Local News Now, which acquired the GazetteLeader in September 2024, has merged the newspaper’s coverage into its own websites, with Fairfax-specific articles found at FFXnow and Arlington-related articles on its sister site, ARLnow.
The McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) still will need to raise the bulk of funds necessary to make its planned second facility in McLean a reality, but the arts group now will benefit from $500,000 in Fairfax County government funding.
The Board of Supervisors won Sept. 24 unanimously supported providing those funds from the county’s Economic Opportunity Reserve.
Fourth- and-fifth-grade students at Haycock Elementary School made the initial request, and on Sept. 21 community leaders gathered to unveil the second in what is expected to be a growing number of markers in the Fairfax County government’s Black/African-American Historical Marker Project.
The new marker is located at Clemyjontri Park in McLean, just steps from Gunnell’s Chapel, and notes the provenance of the historic chapel, located on land deeded by Robert Gunnell in 1879.
In anticipation of a drainage project in the 300 block of Glyndon Street, N.E., the Vienna Town Council unanimously agreed Sept. 23 to fix a long-standing right-of-way quirk along the street’s Glyndon Park frontage between Ayr Hill Avenue and Jean Place, N.E.
The right-of-way issue dates back to the original 1891 plan for the Ayr Hill subdivision, said Deputy Planning and Zoning Director Kelly O’Brien.
McLean’s Spring Hill Elementary is one of four schools statewide to have been honored as Exemplary High Performing Schools.
The U.S. Department of Education announced the recipients Sept. 23 as part of the National Blue-Ribbon School program.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors are slated to hold an Oct. 22 public hearing to discuss extending the lease of space in a county-owned property in Merrifield to Inova Health Care Services.
The 5-acre parcel at 8221 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive is home to the Sharon Bulova Center for Community Health, a five-story, 160,000-square-foot facility that opened in 2015. It primarily houses operations of the Community Services Board (CSB) and county government’s Diversion First program.
Three Northern Virginia students were honored for academic prowess recently by the McLean area branch of American Association of University Women (AAUW).
The meeting, held at the McLean Community Center, also featured a program on “Gender, Women and Politics: Where Are We Now.”
The vehicle-wash facility at the Northside Property Yard soon will receive extensive repairs.
The Vienna Town Council on Sept. 23 approved a $128,021 contract to have PBI Environmental Restoration perform the work. The price includes a 20-percent contingency allowance for unexpected factors.
In its first member meeting of the 2024-25 season, the New Dominion Women’s Club presented four local organizations with donations of $2,200 each in recognition of their support to the local community over the past year.
• English Empowerment Center – teaches adults the basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English so they can access employment and educational opportunities and more fully and equitably participate in the community.
By Brian Trompeter
Trash, lawn damage and safety were among factors Fairfax County supervisors considered before unanimously agreeing Sept. 10 to expand the Madison Residential Permit Parking District (District 11) around the Vienna-area school.
