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Special education English teacher and CHS graduate Saniya Lee rekindled their connection with their old school when they first took a job as a long-term substitute teacher, then transitioned into full-time teaching. As a new teacher, Lee’s younger age led to some unexpected encounters upon their return to the school.
County residents have testified to the Planning Commission, advocating for the proposed Accessory Living Unit (ALU) zoning ordinance amendment, all the while asking commissioners to do away with remaining restrictions in the name of more affordable housing options. ALUs are essentially separate living areas or a home addition, interior or...
Fairfax County Public Schools is facing a potential $200 million fiscal year 2028 budget gap that needs to be filled through additional revenue or cost reductions, based on newly released projections. While the cuts currently under consideration would not directly impact classrooms, they would ripple through the 172,000-student district, Superintendent...
Hosting Thanksgiving can take most of a week: the grocery runs, the oven juggling, the stack of pans afterward. Sloppy Mama’s BBQ on Langston Boulevard offers a way to skip all of it with ready-to-go Thanksgiving dinners, made from scratch and picked up at 5731 Langston Blvd., Arlington, VA 22207.
Northwest winds could gust to 35 mph Saturday as chilly conditions persist across the region.
Creative Collective’s annual holiday pop-up is returning to Fairfax Corner in a new location. The six-week holiday market will run from Friday, November 13, to Thursday, December 24. In this year’s smaller space, located next to Chico’s, shoppers will be able to discover goods from seven small businesses across the region.
The decision to seek addiction treatment can come after weeks or months of uncertainty. A family member may finally recognize the need for professional support, or someone experiencing substance use difficulties may decide independently that it’s time to ask for help. In either situation, what happens immediately after that decision matters.
An information technology company that has called the Herndon area home for more than three decades can continue that streak even after recently changing its headquarters. After years in the McNair neighborhood at 13595 Dulles Technology Drive, ePlus is relocating its corporate headquarters about 3 miles away to the Lincoln Park I office building at 13900 Lincoln Park Drive, just east of Route 28.
(WHTM) — GIANT is making some major contributions to regional food banks during November for Thanksgiving. The company announced Monday that it would be giving $200,000 in turkey, gift card and monetary donations to 39 food banks and community organizations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia “in support of hunger relief initiatives.” Throughout the […]
A small-scale study from the advocacy group Environment America found evidence of microplastics throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the group announced Tuesday. Using citizen scientists, the group collected several water samples at 15 different places throughout the watershed, including five sites in Maryland waterways. They found microplastics at every site, whether in the form of plastic fiber, film, beads, or fragments.
