By Brian Trompeter
Public-safety personnel who saved lives and braved difficult circumstances got their due March 30 at the 45th Annual Fairfax County Valor Awards.
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By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County is sitting pretty, budget-wise, as it heads into the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 and county staff have identified ways to allocate higher-than-expected funds.
By Brian Trompeter
Mollie Bass Abraham, who with her late husband owned and ran the Vienna Inn for four decades, died at her home in Alexandria on March 25. She was 96.
By Brian Trompeter
Town Council Designates Windover Avenue Property as Historic Site: A house at 307 Windover Ave., N.W., has become the 31st property placed on the Register of Vienna Historic Structures, Sites and Places, following approval March 20 by the Vienna Town Council.
By Brian Trompeter
Landscape planters along Vienna’s two main commercial streets, Maple Avenue and Church Street, will not receive replacement plantings just yet, as the Vienna Town Council still needs to iron out details with a contractor.
He isn’t departing the Fairfax County Planning Commission any time soon, but an era did come to an end when Peter Murphy recently turned over the chairman’s gavel to Phillip Niedzielski-Eichner.
It was a gavel Murphy, who has represented the Springfield District on the Planning Commission since the early days of the Reagan administration, had controlled since 1989.
By Brian Trompeter
The Fairfax County Police Department on March 13 rolled out its 2023 “Road Shark” campaign, a high-visibility and coordinated enforcement-and-education effort to deter aggressive driving, reduce crashes and change driving behavior.
By Brian Trompeter
Just as some critics had anticipated, efforts to extend Express Lanes in Maryland from the American Legion Bridge to Interstate 270 hit a major glitch March 10 when contractor Transurban pulled out of negotiations.
The 20 million or more passengers traveling through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in any given year have James Wilding to thank for the doors still being open.
It was Wilding, among others, who pushed back against efforts by the U.S. Secret Service to shutter the airport permanently in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That draconian security proposal came close to success – too close for local business and political leaders – before then-President George W. Bush stepped in and halted it.
By Brian Trompeter
Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville) has only nine months left in office, but he’ll have a full to-do list until he steps down.