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Surface Parking at East, West Falls Church & Vienna to Close for Most of 2020
February 14, 2020
Starting next month, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority plans to make significant cuts to parking at Falls Church metro stations for nearly the rest of the year, just a week after it was [...]
Real Estate Assessments Make Biggest Jump in 5 Years
February 14, 2020
The City of Falls Church released its overview of real estate assessments as of Jan. 1, 2020 Tuesday, and for the 10th straight year, the overall value is well above three percent, this time at a [...]
Mary Riley Styles Library’s Big Makeover Set to Begin
February 13, 2020
City Council chambers were packed with library supporters and they were not disappointed with the final [...]

A Penny for Your Thoughts: News of Greater Falls Church
February 14, 2020
You don’t need census data to know that our community is changing [...]
Our Man in Arlington
February 14, 2020
Buy local, buy organic, but keep it [...]
Editorial: Benefits to F.C. From Richmond
February 13, 2020
For the first time in what has seemed forever in the eyes of some of our local officials, the state government in Richmond is [...]

Hey, America, Avoid the Fringe!
February 13, 2020
The sentimentality associated with the current youth surge for Bernie Sanders is nothing but that. [...]
The Great Energy Transition: Temperatures Continue to Climb
February 6, 2020
It is now over 30 years since we first began to pay serious attention to the role of carbon emissions in raising global [...]
Buttigieg & A New LGBTQ Paradigm
February 6, 2020
As competent as Mayor Pete proved himself to be on debate stages in the runup to this start of the actual race, there is no [...]

Justice High Student Is Semifinalist for Scholarship
February 14, 2020
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced the semifinalists for its highly-selective Cooke College Scholarship, including Sem [...]
F.C. City Students Claim Multiple Spots in Honor Bands
February 14, 2020
This year saw the most students Falls Church City Public Schools has ever had in district honor bands. [...]
Justice High’s Student Promote Awareness for Cancer
February 13, 2020
The Justice High School team is led by Student of the Year candidates Grace Martin (center), Jake Beres (right) and Trevor [...]

This Week in Sports: Girls Basketball
February 13, 2020
A decisive 49-48 loss was handed to George Mason High School’s girls basketball team on the road against William Monroe High [...]
Last-Second Whiff Leaves Mustangs with Close Loss
February 12, 2020
On their last possession with seven seconds remaining on the clock, the Mustangs couldn’t get a shot off. Mason had a play in [...]
Pressure Helps Mustangs Break Brentsville, 62-29
February 5, 2020
The Mustangs owned the first quarter crediting their aggressive full-court press having multiple steals and shutting down the [...]

Cauldron Scores 9 Hayes Award Nominations
February 10, 2020
Falls Church’s rapidly-emerging regional theater powerhouse, the Creative Cauldron, scored an astonishing nine Helen Hayes [...]
Press Pass: Too Many Zooz
January 21, 2020
Going from the subway to the mainstage is every New York City busker’s dream — or better yet — fantasy. But that path was a [...]
Press Pass: Gilbert Gottfried
December 13, 2019
Whether you know him from his days as a young stand-up comedian in New York City in the 1970s, as Iago from Disney’s [...]