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Wakefield teams win county track & field meets

By wide margins and with multiple first-place finishers, the Wakefield Warriors won both the girls and boys Arlington County indoor track and field championships. The girls amassed 125 points in the high-school meet at Thomas Jefferson Middle School to win...

McLean hoop teams sweep rivalry games

No matter where, when or what time, neighborhood high-school varsity basketball rivalry games are always of big interest. If first place also happens to be on the line for one of those clashes, they become even more special. That was...

Sports Notebook: Close rivalry games

There were four big neighborhood high-school varsity basketball rivalry games the night of Jan. 24 involving teams in the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas, and they were all good ones, with close outcomes. Two went into overtime, with the Washington-Liberty Generals...

Sports Notebook: Hardball season approaching

Varsity high-school baseball schedules for the upcoming spring season are beginning to be posted on athletic Websites. One posted on the Madison High School athletic Twitter site was that for the Madison Warhawks of Vienna. The schedule has the preseason...

Sports Notebook: Outstanding photos

For years, Sun Gazette photographer Deb Kolt has taken so many photographs of various sports for our newspapers. They are all outstanding and the readers are lucky to got to see them. Some of Kolt’s best and most creative pictures...

Sports Notebook: Broken sideline chains

Those who watch a lot of football games have likely encountered an occasion problem with the first-down sideline chain markers. The markers consist of two tallish poles attached at the bottom by a 10-yard length of chain that keeps track,...

Vienna native chosen to Paul VI Hall of Fame

Billy Emerson now has one more significant achievement to add to an already accomplished list of baseball milestones and involvements. The Vienna native and resident recently was chosen to be inducted into St. Paul VI Catholic High School’s Athletic Hall...

Commentary: Improved seasons for five hoops teams

There always are surprises to any high-school sports season, and nothing is different this winter when it comes to the local girls and boys varsity basketball campaigns. Five teams from the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas are enjoying much more success...

Flint Hill girls basketball team enjoys strong start

Winning certainly helps, but overall, Sedrick Winston said his transition in becoming the new Flint Hill Huskies girls head basketball coach has gone as smoothly as possible. Through Jan. 17 games, the high-school team had an 11-1 overall record, a...

Q&A: A good time to enter the real-estate field?

Considering the different effects the pandemic has had on the real-estate market, local Realtors were asked what advice they would give, say, a family member who might want to enter the real estate field now, and how that advice...

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New School Board member receives liaison assignments

New Arlington School Board member Bethany Sutton has her assignments. School Board members on Feb. 2 are expected to approve...
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