President Emily Lodge gave a report about Bishop O’Connell High School Interact Club and its activities at the April 25 Falls Church Rotary Club meeting at Fortune Restaurant. She is pictured above, at center, flanked from left to right by Rotary Liaison Joe Akkara, Faculty Sponsor Mary Lou Wentzel, Interact [...]

The Falls Church-based travel soccer group, Premier Athletics Club, will open its boys and girls travel soccer tryouts for the soccer year 2013-14 starting the week of May 20. For more information, visit premierac.org, email premieracsoccer@aol.com, or call 703-477-6828.

Pizzeria Orso Executive Chef Will Artley will be the featured chef in the next installment of this season’s Falls Church Farmers’ Market Chef Demonstration series this Saturday. Artley will be making homemade biscuits and pairing them with farmers’ market favorites like strawberries, sausage, and honey. As with all demonstrations, recipes [...]

This spring’s Recycling Extravaganza saw more than 500 vehicles stop by the City of Falls Church Property Yard and Recycling Center to offload items. The totals of items collected at the April 27 event include 28,400 pounds of electronic goods, 11,400 pounds of documents shredded, 1,500 pounds of clothing and [...]

The City of Falls Church is gearing up for Bike to Work Day 2013 this Friday, May 17. This year’s event is expected to draw a record-breaking 14,000 participants at 72 pit stops throughout the region. The City will provide an official Pit Stop from 6:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. [...]

Alexander James Pierson graduated this past Saturday from Longwood University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He was a recipient of the 2013 Matt Burton Citizen Leader Award for his work as chief engineer with the university radio station, WMLU. Pierson is an alumnus of George Mason [...]

Team Eva participated in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes on the National Mall last month. Team Eva, comprised of 40 Falls Church friends and neighbors of Eva Whitaker, raised more than $4,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the leading global organization funding Type 1 Diabetes [...]

From the May FIRSTfriday of Falls Church ArtALot event, the Beyer Automotive Group Cruise-In winners were Bill Winter (first place), Renick Miller (second place) and Stephen White (third place). Pictured above are, from left to right, Winter; Dale Toler, event judge; White; Miller; music performer Dan Chadburn; Sheriff S. Stephen [...]

Lily Consuela has her own Facebook page. Why? This 4-year-old Falls Church City resident has an important job. She is the mascot for George Mason High School’s varsity girls tennis team. This four-pound pup defies all the bad press about Chihuahuas. Lily is sweet, snuggly, low-energy, and not yappy. Truth [...]

Peace Corps volunteer Melissa Rose-McCully, a graduate of George Mason High School, is working with her community in Nicaragua to improve science teaching and access to educational materials for primary school students. Rose-McCully raised funds to print textbooks and provide teacher trainings through the Peace Corps Partnership Program, a program [...]