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Maple Avenue (Rt. 123) will be closed between East Street and Lawyers Road from approximately 6:50 pm through 9 pm today (October 24), for Vienna’s Annual Halloween Parade.
Several side streets will also be closed during this time period.
The Annual Halloween Parade will begin at 7 pm. The parade is expected to draw over 35,000 spectators.
Starting May 4, the Vienna Saturday Farmers’ Market is moving a few blocks and relocating to the Faith Baptist Church parking lots, 301 Center Street South, located next to the Vienna Police Department and across from the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department. The Farmers’ Market will open on May 4, 2013, and will run continuously on Saturdays through October 26, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., in the Faith Baptist Church parking lots. The Optimist Club of Greater Vienna operates and [...]
With great fanfare, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, (D-Va.) today released a statement from the Government Accountability Office saying the claim by the Postmaster General that the U.S. Postal Service has the right to cut its mail delivery schedule from six-to-five days “rests upon a faulty USPS premise.” There is no legislative authority from Congress allowing the change, said Connolly, who represents a Northern Virginia district packed with government employees. “The GAO legal opinion clearly rejects the Postal Service’s attempt to circumvent the [...]
Caleb Gordley’s parents say they have forgiven the neighbor who shot and killed their 16-year-old son in a tragic mishap in Sterling last weekend. The Gordleys say they understand why Donald West Wilder II shot Caleb, who had sneaked out of his home to go to a party Saturday night. When he returned early the next morning, Calel entered Wilder’s home through a window, apparently thinking it was his. Wilder confronted Caleb in his home and shot him. “I just [...]
Following months of study, meetings, and debate, the Fairfax County School Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on the Student Rights & Responsibilities (SR&R) will issue its recommendations to the board in a special session tonight (March 20, 2013) at 6pm. Significant changes to student discipline practices could occur if the School Board adopts the committee’s wide-ranging suggestions. A total of 50 approved recommendations are included in the community committee’s report. Chief among these are positions FZTR Fairfax Zero Tolerance Reform has advocated for over [...]
For awhile there, everybody was fighting to get into local news. Now it seems that everybody’s fighting to get out of it. The latest to fold its tent is The Washington Examiner, which said today it is dropping local news coverage, cutting 87 jobs and changing into a weekly magazine and daily website focused on political news. The Manassas News & Messenger was booted by its Berkshire Hathaway owners late last year and a recent Pew study finds news in general being [...]
It may seem like a lot of commotion over a tree but these aren’t just any trees. For months, the Virginia Department of Transportation, county officials and Great Fall residents have been debating the future — if any — of two stately white oak trees at the corner of Georgetown Pike and Walker Road. The ax is finally falling. VDOT says that, weather permitting, on March 19 it will remove one of the two trees and trim the other one. The tree [...]
Amidst all the talk about sequestration’s effect on the military and intelligence budgets, one subject crucial to the region’s health, if not its economy, has been overlooked, according to the Lung Association of Virginia, which is quoting a White House report that estimates Virginia will lose about $2,997,000 in environmental funding to ensure clean water and air quality, as well as prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste. “The sequester is a big hit to public health. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is [...]
UPDATED: 9 AM Thursday And so with a slight whimper, Snowquester began to melt and life returned to normal. County government and courts are open on a regular schedule today, buses and trains are running. Fairfax schools open two hours late. UPDATED: 1 PM Like the ax-wielding budget cuts after which it is named, the storm Snowquester arrived right on schedule and went to work upsetting normal patterns of life in the Fairfax area. Light snowfall began Tuesday night but [...]
