Kate Karstens, editor of The Lasso, George Mason High School’s mostly-online newspaper, is going after the Falls Church City Public Schools School Board Policy 9.46, which permits the school principal to review and censor news and commentary items before they are published in the paper, a policy known as “prior restraint.”

On Wednesday, Falls Church Distillers signed a lease for 3,400 square feet in the former Mobu Kids space at 442 S. Washington Street in the Washington Market shopping center run by The Young Group.

The Falls Church City Public Schools system has new technology rolling out with its school buses on Tuesday, Sept. 6 when students return to class. The new tech is a software system called Predictable Ryde that allows the school system to track its buses and, through a mobile tracking app, […]

The annual convocation of the Falls Church City Schools, kicking off a week of professional development prior to the formal start of the school year for students in the system next Tuesday, was conducted with enthusiasm and optimism at the George Mason High School auditorium Tuesday morning.

Detectives with the Fairfax County Police Department are investigating a report of a bullet that struck a vehicle in the 2200 block of Beacon Lane in Falls Church on Sunday, Aug. 28 at around 3:52 a.m., according to a press release from the department. According to the person who called […]

For those not eagerly burying their noses in their smart phones at every opportunity, or dedicated to taking power naps whenever possible, the array of printed materials readily available in a waiting room, at a doctor’s office, for example, may offer adventurous gateways to new and even fascinating alternative universes. […]

WEST END PARK Cherry Hill Park, home to several important City functions throughout the year and the historic Cherry Hill Farmhouse, doesn’t have much competition in terms of what is the best park in the City. So, we eliminated it from contention. Now, out of the 11 parks that are […]

MUSIC ROW When the Seven Stars convenience store at 105 Park Avenue closed in November 2015, there was a lot of contention between the property owner, Jeff Jeffrey, and his tenants, the Tao family. The Tao family said that they were under “constant harassment” from Jeffrey and Jeffrey said that […]

Functional Fitness Nothing helps cope with suffering more than a smile, and these doggies who hang out at the premises of Falls Church’s Functional Fitness studio on S. Washington St. definitely know how to smile. They’re Scrapple (the one who looks like scrapple) and Izzy, the big one. They’re almost […]

Creative Cauldron Looking for a good $5 glass of wine in the City of Falls Church? You can’t do better than a performance night at the ArtSpace of F.C., home to Laura Hull’s incomparable Creative Cauldron teaching and performing theater operation. It’s usually Bill Abel who is behind the concession […]