By Schylar Baber Growing up in foster care, I learned a variety of different survival techniques. Not the important things, like how to prepare a meal, do my taxes or balance my checkbook. For the record, I didn’t learn any of that. What I did learn, because my evangelical foster […]

Granted with careful caveats insisted upon by Falls Church’s Economic Development specialist Becky Witsman, the numbers attached to Monday’s unanimous City Council approval of the first big hurdle for dense development of 9.45 acres on which its old George Mason High School footprint now sits are truly eye-popping. There has […]

Unusually hot and humid, followed by torrential downpours. It must be summer in the Washington region. Monday’s fierce storms overwhelmed area drainage systems, and forced multiple water rescues of drivers who got caught in deep rushing water. People were rescued; their vehicles didn’t fare as well. Natural stormwater drainage, like […]

On July 12, I retire from downtown journalism, which enriched my soul for 43 years. I am now free to reveal my career’s iffier moments. Covering an event at the National Archives in 2010, I wandered into the staff-only area and got lost trying to exit. It was my first […]

Governor Northam’s decision to convene the General Assembly for a special session to address gun violence was the subject of wide-ranging debate and skepticism among “high information” Democrats and Republicans alike. As the DMV region begins to cope with rising extremes of heat, humidity and severe weather, most citizens have […]

With the June primary behind us summer is officially here. Children are out of school and the hometown parades for the Fourth of July are happening. I commend our forefathers for their work on our democratic experiment. Their vision and thoughtful discourse are the cornerstones our of nation and why […]

By Tom Horton, Bay Journal News Service Notes to myself on preparing to teach my Chesapeake Bay course at Salisbury University for the 10th year: Teach oysters? Always, but this time I’m also going bigger, with beavers. Both are “keystone” species, and Castor canadensis, aka the North American beaver, is potentially […]

There is nothing like a slice of fresh, home-grown tomato on a cook-out burger, or freshly picked herbs on a garden salad. During World War II, “Victory Gardens” were popular, something you could do at home to support the war effort while our soldiers and sailors fought far away. As […]

Lindy Hockenberry, for over half a century a loyal, passionate supporter of all things Falls Church, and especially its schools and kids, was lionized and hailed profusely at a special Cherry Hill Farmhouse reception and words of great love and respect delivered at Monday’s Falls Church Planning Commission meeting, with […]

I won’t presume to present a comprehensive history of Fourth of July celebrations in our sainted community. But there’s one that was popular for decades in days of old that helped put Arlington on the map. George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857), the builder of Arlington House whose onetime plantation is […]