Mudrooms are said to be disappearing. But builders, architects and real estate agents throughout the Washington, D.C. region don’t see it that way.

While some first-time buyers are well-positioned to break into notoriously competitive markets such as the Washington, D.C. region’s, those who’ve struggled financially thanks to the virus may find themselves priced out once they regain their footing.

Management of Thompson’s Italian in the City of Falls Church announced this week that one of its beloved, long-time servers Jose Rogelio Martinez Alvarenca died January 17 after an extensive battle with the Covid-19 virus.

Sharyn Byer, a loving wife, mother and grandmother and a virtuoso flutist, conductor and educator, ascended to Heaven at the age of 72.

Dick Ekfelt died unexpectedly on Jan. 10 after a brief illness. Dick lived in Falls Church for the last 36 years of his life, but the Midwest never left this tall slender Nebraskan.

John W. Vanderheyden, 66, an exhibited landscape painter in the Washington, D.C., area and central North Carolina, died suddenly on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, as the result of a fall while hiking near Pittsboro, North Carolina.

In the context of the punishing consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on business development activity worldwide, three of the large mixed use projects now in development in Falls Church are requesting potential revisions in their agreements with the City to take into account prospects for pulling back.

Two days prior to yesterday’s historic inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th president of the United States, his longtime ally and current U.S. Representative from the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church, Donald S. Beyer Jr. was here in the Little City for a ceremonial event marking Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the Tinner Hill Foundation.

The Fairfax County Public Library announced this week that it reached a record-breaking two million digital book checkouts in 2020.