In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Sun & Moon Taiji One was selected to perform for Asia Heritage Foundation’s Fiesta Asia Street Festival on Saturday. Sun & Moon Taiji One’s instructors Mickey and Melody Lee and seven of their students demonstrated Tai Chi forms (Yang and Chen styles), [...]

Brad Tidwell announced last Thursday at a meeting of the Falls Church GOP that he intends to seek the Republican nomination in the 53rd House of Delegates district, which includes Falls Church City and parts of Fairfax County. Tidwell is a former chair of the Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans [...]

Slippers and Jasmine, sisters adopted last summer through Last Chance Animal Rescue, are best friends. Slippers (left) and Jasmine play together, groom each other, and sometimes sleep or nap with each other. They keep their family and the other family cat, Lela, company as well.

Andrew Connelly (inside, second from left) was named the George Mason High School 2013 RoPaSci champion. RoPaSci is math teacher Joel Block’s Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament. Its purpose is to encourage students to maintain focus throughout the third quarter after the long winter break. Students who turn in all their homework and [...]

George C. Marshall High School junior Jonathan Leidenheimer won second place at the 2013 National History Bee, held last month in Arlington. David C. Madden, National History Bee founder and executive director, is pictured above congratulating Leidenheimer. (Courtesy Photo)

The George Mason High School and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School club ice hockey teams are planning their rosters for next year. The GMHS team is open to students in grades 9 – 12, and the MEH team is open to students in grades 6 – 8. Eligible students will [...]

A community question-and-answer session will be held next Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m. at Mount Daniel Elementary School to discuss a new pre-kindergarten center to be located at the current Child Development Center location on Cherry Street. Those who have questions that they would specifically like to have addressed [...]

Sixth grader Malaika Pasch broke the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School girls FitnessGram PACER Test record this week in physical education class. Reaching 105, she broke the previous girl’s record of 102 and was only five away from breaking the all-time MEHMS record for both boys and girls at 110. [...]

Aimee Cho, a senior at McLean’s Langley High School and editor-in-chief of saxonscope.com, has been named the Virginia High School League’s 2013 Student Journalist of the Year and Charles Savedge Scholarship recipient. Cho was the unanimous choice of the selection committee. She has been involved with high school journalism since [...]

The community is invited to join the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia for its fourth annual Cycle Fest ride on Sunday, May 19. The event benefits the Wounded Warriors Project and Hazon, which creates healthier and more sustainable communities in the world and beyond. Riders can choose from 65-, 50-, [...]