Week in Great Falls
What's happening this week in Great Falls?
Letter to the Editor: Questions for Candidates
To the Editor: I'd like to ask Mrs. Comstock and Mr. Foust these questions and hope they will go "on the record" publicly with their answers.
Bio and Q&A with Gerry Connolly
Q: What do you think are your top three accomplishments in office? A: * The Silver Line. I wasn’t alone, but I'm very proud of my championship of the Silver Line and the fact that it's up and running and succeeding. It took 19 years to sort of get people to reimagine it and get it built. It was a long, tough struggle.
Children’s Studio of Great Falls
Students learn about art techniques through history.
In a cabin near Difficult Run Stream, Josie Gillespie paints a pear. She and two other girls are Karen Graham’s art students at Children’s Studio of Great Falls on Fridays, a two-year-old local business that doesn’t just teach children to make art — it teaches children to appreciate art.
350-plus Against Cluster Development
Basheer and Edgemoore rezoning proposal leads to citizen-backed petition.
There is a growing opposition to a cluster development proposal seeking rezoning in the village. After residents found out that the Brooks Farm pasture might be rezoned by developer Basheer and Edgemoore to residential estate to increase the number of homes built on the property, more than 350 of them signed a petition voicing their disapproval.
Letter: Why Comstock?
Letter to the Editor
To the Editor: The Keystone Pipeline has strong bipartisan support. Therefore it is telling that Democratic candidate John Foust is out in left field opposing this job-creating program that would provide more affordable energy and more tax revenue and more jobs.
Winning Art Bucks
Enter to win $1000 in prizes at Great Falls Studios 2014 Studio Tour.
The artists of Great Falls Studios will be giving away $1000 in gift certificates, each worth $50, to be used toward the purchase of art during the group’s 2014 Studio Tour.
Letter
Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations.
Dear Chairman and Board Members: The Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations (the Federation) appreciates the many years of support that the Board of Supervisors (BOS) has provided to the Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL). Recently, the FCPL introduced new policies that the Federation decided to examine.
Focus on Transportation
Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance presents regional priorities at 10th annual event.
“What You Need to Know about Transportation in Five Minutes or Less” was the working title of this year’s Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance (NVTA) seminar and reception held on Sept. 30 at Capital One’s auditorium in McLean.
Column: Week Of, Weak On, Week Off
This column completes the three-week arc which describes what I have endured mostly successfully for approximately five years now: chemotherapy every three weeks – with one year off for good behavior (not really good behavior; the year off was to switch to a twice-daily pill, Tarceva, to be taken at home, since the previous treatment was no longer stemming the tide). It’s been my experience that these anti-cancer drugs don’t exactly work forever.
‘A Personal Touch’
Barbara Comstock rallies veterans at Fairfax County Republican Committee Breakfast.
Barbara Comstock, the Republican candidate in the hotly-contested 10th district Congressional race, was on a tight schedule. After speaking before a crowd of military veterans on Saturday morning, her campaign staff was nudging her out the door, reminding the candidate that the breakfast was the first of several campaign events on her calendar that day.
George Mason Holds 3rd Patriot
Intercollegiate Golf Invitational
George Mason University held it’s third Annual Intercollegiate Golf Invitational on Sept. 27-29 at Laurel Hill Golf Course in Fairfax. Seventeen college teams accepted George Mason’s invitation and fielded a total of 104 players.
Community Mourns Local Girl, 16
Missing since Sunday, Cara Golias was found dead in a park.
Just a month before her 17th birthday, friends, family members and classmates from Chantilly, Centreville and Fairfax are mourning the loss of a local girl. The body of Cara Lynn Golias, 16, of the City of Fairfax, was found Monday afternoon in Hemlock Overlook Regional Park in Clifton.
Great Falls Writers Launch Speaker’s Series
Great Falls Park inspires Pamela Palmer’s Feral Warrior novels.
More than 30 people attended the first Great Falls Speaker’s Series at Great Falls Library on Tuesday, Sept. 23 to hear author and Herndon resident Pamela Palmer read from the latest book in her Feral Warrior series — “Wulfe Untamed” — and to learn about her storytelling process in a question-and-answer discussion.
Chantilly Volleyball Beats Defending State Champ
UVa commit Young leads Chargers with 14 kills.
The Chantilly volleyball team defeated defending VHSL 6A state champion Langley.
Week in Great Falls
Wells Fargo Advisors presents the 2nd Annual Exotic & Classic Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show to end Type 1 Diabetes on Saturday, Oct. 5 at Brix American Bistro, Seneca Square in Great Falls.
St. Francis Episcopal Church Celebrates 50 Years in Great Falls
St. Francis Episcopal Church of Great Falls, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has announced a special “Homecoming Weekend,” scheduled for Oct. 4-5.
Great Falls Sharks Beautify Softball Field
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Great Falls Sharks travel softball organization held it's first annual "Nike Field Clean Up Day."
Great Falls Studios Art Tour Set for Oct. 17-19
Now in its 11th year, the weekend trek brings art enthusiasts nose to nose with practicing artists.
One of the simple pleasures of the Great Falls Studios art tour is its easy accessibility.