According to the Virginia Dept. of Medical Assistance Services, between Oct. 29 and Nov. 3, the call center of Virginia’s Medicaid Expansion program, Cover Virginia, took 19,000 calls and helped 3,200 people file applications for Medicaid expansion. On Nov. 5 and 6, DMAS received 7,500 paper applications based on the […]

Virginia deserves enormous credit for its role in this week’s electoral outcome nationally, epitomizing the much wider trend to repudiate all the excessive misogyny, discrimination and attacks on core U.S. institutions, such as the media, that the current Republican leadership across the Potomac represents, and nobody deserves more credit for […]

Frank Conlon, Amadeus pianist-in-residence, serves as the avuncular host for this wide-ranging afternoon of music for the solo voice at Saint Francis Episcopal Church (9220 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls) on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. Featuring Alessandra Marc, soprano; Elizabeth Mondragon, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Haughton, tenor and Jose Sacin, baritone. […]

AS A PART OF ITS COOPERATION with the Neighborhood Tree Planting Program, The National Cherry Blossom Festival and All Nippon Airways planted yoshino cherry trees at Belvedere Elementary school last week. PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, Diana Mayhew spoke with Belvedere students (top) about the tree’s significance locally […]

A person was seen peeping into the ground floor windows of a Falls Church apartment building last Thursday night, according to the latest City crime report released Tuesday. Police responded to the complaint at Merrill House around 8 p.m. on Nov. 1 and found a window screen disturbed. After canvassing […]

Makoto Nakura explores every potential and possibility of marimba through his original transcriptions and premiers by notable composers during this concert at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church (3241 Brush Dr., Falls Church) on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. This concert features music by Bach and Bernstein as well as pieces […]

The Falls Church Education Foundation annual Holiday Pie Sale benefits the “No Holidays for Hunger” fund that helps provide meals to Falls Church City Public School families in need. The pies are from “Mom’s Apple Pie Company.” Ordering is open through Nov. 14. Customers can pick up their pies on […]

Judy’s Place, a Temple Rodef Shalom (2100 Westmoreland St., Falls Church) tradition for over 20 years, provides a unique, non-denominational and convenient shopping experience for children ages 2-13 that lets children, with the help of volunteers, choose from among over 100 gift items ranging in price from $1 to $15 […]

Falls Church Tree Fest announces the date and location of their 2018 event. It will be held at Ireland’s Four Provinces (105 W. Broad St., Falls Church), on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.. This is the fifth year for Tree Fest and it will be bigger […]

PURLIE THE POET submitted a work of hers with her pic. “Just heard from our old gray tabbie/A burst of mewing and sighing/Cause she was told that Giza’s Great Sphinx/ Looks just like a reclining lion /Our old friend informed us, after some contemplation/ That this notion was really old […]