Before perennial powerhouses Westfield and Oscar Smith met for the Virginia 6A State Championship, many expected another close game. Just one year ago, the two schools battled for the 6A Championship ...

Every Friday this December, a group of recent college graduates are trading textbooks for tinsel. Together, they’ve launched the Fix-It Friday Elves, a volunteer effort to decorate the homes of ...

Fifty years ago a group of school children from Franklin Sherman Elementary school in McLean led the nation and the world in the eradication of polio. On April 26, 1954 Dr. Richard Mulvaney, a local ...

Erin Allen, Bishop Ireton High School Julian Hassi, McLean High School Alden Walcott, South Lakes High School Bonna Koo, Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology Iris Cooper, Westfield ...

An Arlington institution is disappearing. After 32 years on S. Glebe Road the Arlington Diner will close its doors on ..... "You know I haven't picked a date, maybe the third week in May," said Louie ...

Joseph McHugh has lived at the Northern Virginia Training Center for 35 years, moving in when he was a teenager. McHugh has cerebral palsy and colostomy and severe spasticity issues. At the training ...

Tennis is a way of life in one Burke neighborhood where the children’s tennis lessons turned into a tennis family led by Gordon Lee on the courts in the Old Keene Mill Swim and Racquet Club. Lee ...

Town of residence: Annandale Age: 25 Education: MPA from George Mason University Occupation and relevant experience: Former Campaign Finance Analyst at FEC, Former Academic Advisor/Assistant ...

Virginia is a battleground state within itself. State legislators are fiercely divided concerning proposed legislation, SB 280. If passed, it would allow an eligible adult diagnosed with a terminal ...

Starting in the school year 2024–25, W. T. Woodson High School will be officially known as the Carter G. Woodson High School, named in honor of the distinguished Black author, educator and journalist ...

Many cats are cuddly companions that remain exclusively indoors. Then, there are their outdoor counterparts that experts call “community cats.” These cats primarily live outside and are ownerless ...

The decommissioning and dismantling of the Deactivated SM-1 Nuclear Power Plant at Fort Belvoir took one step closer to reality this month when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, ...