On Thursday, May 23, Mateo Dunne, the Mount Vernon District Representative on the Fairfax County School Board, launched an effort to amend the superintendent’s proposed FY 2025 Approved Budget. Dunne ...

We’re here just hanging out, connecting with people,” said Brandie Allen, the Mount Vernon Station’s Community Outreach ...

The bodies of all 67 victims of the Jan. 29 plane crash along the Potomac River have now been recovered. Among those were Alexandria residents 12-year-old Olivia Eve Ter and her mother Olesya Taylor.

George Mason IV’s death, Mason Neck resident Dr. John C. Rand told a gathering that Mason was “the most significant man in America at certain critical times.” He argued that Mason’s ideas and writings ...

Lutken, the play is a joyful reincarnation of Woody Guthrie and his life in one of the most turbulent periods of the country, from the Dust Bowl to the Depression to the World War, to the McCarthy ...

The Clifton Horse Society held a training clinic with several sessions at Laurel Hill Equestrian Center in Lorton on Sept. 19. Eventing rider, horsemanship trainer and instructor, Michael Alway, ...

“We had about 160 guests,” said SSA executive director Mary Lee Anderson. “This was the 15th annual SSA Oktoberfest and we raised just over $45,000 to support nutrition, companionship and ...

Family and friends gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Johnson, Alexandria’s newest centenarian. Born in 1926, Johnson witnessed a century of historic change, from advances in ...

The Connection Newspapers invited candidates on the ballot for Virginia’s 11th Congressional District race — Democratic incumbent James R. Walkinshaw, Republican challenger Arthur G. Purves and Green ...

Franklin O. Meeks, founder and owner of the successful Domino's Pizza franchise known as "Team Washington," died Tuesday, Nov. 9., at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., of complications ...

In June of 1852, Charles Glasscock was among the Alexandria firefighters answering the call of a reported fire. The men carried the firefighting apparatus through the streets of the city only to have ...

Foody was conveying her first-hand knowledge of writing to the high schoolers. Her main point was about character. “Genres can change, but character - It’s the one thing they all have in common,” she ...