In recognition of their continued partnership with Falls Church City Public Schools, a number of local businesses and organizations will be included in the 2013 Virginia School Boards Association Business Honor Roll, along with many others from across the state, it was announced this week. This is a new recognition [...]

At a City Hall work session Monday night, two members of the Falls Church City Council and two of the Planning Commission were on hand for a special briefing on fair housing laws given by F.C. attorney Martha Mothershead and City Attorney John Foster. With the exploding enrollment growth in [...]

Elizabeth C. Hawthorne, 88, of North Arlington, died April 26. She was the wife for 58 years of the late Blackwell Hawthorne, a valued employee of the Falls Church News-Press for over a decade who died on the eve of his 88th birthday in January 2010. The Hawthornes lived for [...]

Lincoln Park at the intersection of Great Falls and Lincoln Ave. in Falls Church reopened to the public yesterday following upgrades, including the installation of new equipment. The City will host an official ribbon cutting ceremony, but no date has yet been set. Officials issued a reminder that Lincoln Park [...]

A 67-year old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a person last Thursday on North Maple Avenue in the City of Falls Church. Police arrested John M. Schmelzer, of Falls Church, at a residence in the 200 block of N. Maple Ave. and charged him with Malicious Wounding and [...]

The monthly survey of the City of Falls Church’s Economic Development Office confirms that there is a flurry of new and impending openings of small retailers in the Little City this spring. Other big news is that the Spectrum condominiums project at 444 W. Broad is now officially sold out, [...]

Police are seeking information in a reported sexual assault that took place last Monday, April 22 on Annandale Road in Falls Church. Around 5 a.m last Monday, City of Falls Church Police say the victim initially reported that the incident occurred in the 100-200 block of S. Washington St., but [...]

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to a carport fire yesterday morning in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County. The carport was located in the 6700 block of Westcott Road. Firefighters reported heavy fire coming from a detached carport to the rear of a single family home [...]

Arlington developer Mark Silverwood has announced plans for a five-story, 180-unit apartment building on the 74,360 square foot Shreve Oil lot on Lee Highway near the Falls Church-Arlington border adjacent the W&OD Trail. The website ARLNow.com reported the news earlier today. The project, to be called Shreve Apartments, will eventually [...]

According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today, the DOJ has granted a request by the City of Falls Church that it be exempted from provisions of the Voting Rights Act that apply generally to Virginia and other states where federal law requires DOJ oversight of [...]