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Saunders makes his mark
7/24/2008
West Springfield graduate Joe Saunders is making a name for himself this season in Major League Baseball. The left-handed pitcher has 12 wins for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and was named to his first All-Star team. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Bleak forecast for schools
7/24/2008
Last week, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and school board unanimously agreed to join forces to review lines of business and school programs in order to plan eventual program and staff reductions needed to attack an estimated $430 million shortfall in the fiscal 2010 budget. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Closing date for Fairfax child care center now in limbo
7/24/2008
In a meeting with angry parents and on-site staff Monday night, the Salvation Army Advisory Board for Fairfax County eventually agreed to discuss options to delay the closing of a 29-year-old day care facility on Ox Road in Fairfax.It was acknowledged at the meeting that on-site staff and parents had been deliberately left in the dark because the advisory board "realized that if we started talking about [the closing], we'd get people upset," said board member Sandy Winans at the meeting. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Clerk at Franklin Farm Sunoco robbed at knifepoint
7/24/2008
Police are investigating a robbery at a gas station that left one man injured. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Time Warner to lease 195,000 square feet in Herndon
7/23/2008
Brandywine Realty Trust announced Wednesday that it has executed a 10-year lease transaction with Time Warner Cable Inc. for 195,000 square feet of office space in South Lake at Dulles Corner, a 268,240-square-foot office building in Herndon. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
All-Stars lose heartbreaker in bottom of sixth
7/23/2008
Losing a baseball game rarely makes anyone's day, especially when that loss appears out of nowhere. The SYA East Little League All-Stars suffered one of those losses -- a 7-6 heartbreaker to Tuckahoe in the Majors state title game -- though the team's day was made before it even began. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
HOT lanes work ruffles feathers
7/23/2008
HOT Lanes project angers environmentalists | 0 comments - ›› more ...
State Dept. stands aside
7/23/2008
Feds won't weigh in on county's lease with Saudi Academy | 1 comment - ›› more ...
Public meeting on library renovation
7/23/2008
Dranesville District Supervisor John W. Foust will hold a public meeting Tuesday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. to review and discuss newly revised plans to extensively renovate the Dolley Madison Public Library in McLean. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Sully's growth slowing
7/23/2008
Economy puts brakes on development as area approaches build-out | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Girlfriend of man killed in bus accident relates incident
7/22/2008
A co-worker and girlfriend of one of the two men who were killed during a July 11 sightseeing bus tour, calls the event a "horror movie" and remembers the man she planned to marry. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Past PTA president sentenced for embezzlement
7/23/2008
Triantafilitsa Mattfeld, former president of the Navy Elementary Parent Teacher Association, will serve a year in jail after being sentenced July 18. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Board approves future Metro entrance
7/24/2008
Location would serve potential Fair Oaks Metro stop. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
County to consider stricter zoning penalties
7/22/2008
County board considers adopting state law changes | 0 comments - ›› more ...
County to study four-day work week
7/22/2008
Fairfax County staff will examine the potential cost savings of instituting a four-day work week for many county employees | 0 comments - ›› more ...
County may lose bus funding
7/23/2008
VDOT officials tell county staff Dulles Toll Road express bus service funding will be cut soon | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Bus accident witness says driver sold beer on board
7/22/2008
Following last week's news coverage of a D.C. double-decker bus accident that claimed the lives of two men on July 11, a witness to the accident is speaking out and is now saying that no verbal safety warnings were ever given and that the driver of the sightseeing bus was selling beer on board. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Purcellville toddler remembered
7/22/2008
Friends and family gathered in the sanctuary of Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Purcellville July 16 to celebrate the life of Chase Dmitry Harrison. Chase, 21 months, died July 8 in Herndon. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Grand jury indicts father in toddler manslaughter case
7/22/2008
On Monday, July 21, a Fairfax County grand jury indicted Miles Harrison, 49, of Purcellville, for manslaughter in the July 8 death of his 21-month-old adopted son, Chase Harrison. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
County crime up 22 percent
7/18/2008
Overall crime in Fairfax County increased by nearly 22 percent for the first quarter 2008 compared to first quarter figures from last year. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
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