The new Mission Lofts living complex in Bailey’s Crossroads seemed to time its opening perfectly with the onset of the pandemic, and builds a natural division between working and living into its units.
This week, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors returned to in-person meetings for the first time in months.
According to a memo sent to all City of Falls Church employees yesterday, the Falls Church City Hall and other City facilities will fully reopen on Tuesday, July 21 with the caveat that all comply with cleaning and disinfecting guidelines and have viewed a 55-minute City-produced training video by Monday.
Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields told an online meeting of the F.C. City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee this morning that “several officers” of the F.C. Police Department have contracted the Covid-19 virus and are in quarantine for a two week period, creating an “acute” situation for the City.
The two projects were among four to win grants among 41 applicants from the wider region, and were secured despite the small size of the City due to the “mouse that roars” size of its civic activism.
A “carelessly discarded cigarette” set a couch on fire in a Bailey’s Crossroads apartment complex Tuesday afternoon, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue reported.
