Perhaps no surprise here: The year 1961 featured some big battles on the school-integration front, both locally and at the national level.
So let's pop into the way-back machine and see what was going on.
The Dec. 2, 1961, front page...
Time flies: December marks the year that Albert the Wondercat needs his annual checkup and vaccination. (If only we could vaccinate him against Fancy Feast; that's the only brand he likes and it like everything else keeps going up...
Tonight's toodling brings me to the Arlington County Republican Committee's annual awards program and gathering, as we in Sun Gazette-land do try our best to give equal play to the annual accolades handed out by Democrats and Republicans each...
When in doubt, dip into the archives of the Northern Virginia Sun to pull out some interesting tidbits. It never fails.
And let's take the wayback machine to this week in 1968, when an Arlington Public Schools task force has...
Rare is the free time of a local-media superstar (where? where?), but I did have some down time for Thanksgiving and managed to regress to childhood with binge-watching several episodes from the third season (1972-73-ish) of "The Partridge Family."
If...
Beth Arthur has been sheriff of Arlington for more than two decades and has served in the Sheriff's Office for more than 35, so it can't be too much of a surprise that she announced yesterday she wouldn't be...
An e-mail came over the transom yesterday from downstate Democratic Del. Sam Rasoul, saying he planned to introduce a state constitutional amendment reducing the age for voting in local elections from 18 to 16.
It's going nowheresville, of course –...
We have an interesting sports item this week, noting that an all-girls team playing in the 13-14 age division not only competed this fall against mainly boys squads in Arlington Babe Ruth competition, but also went 8-2-1 in the...
As is my wont, I went onto the fabulous Internet last week and selected some books from various branches of Arlington's library system that were to be delivered to Shirlington Library and then picked up by yours truly for...
One of the proposals that has been floated by the Arlington County Civic Federation to modernize Arlington’s governance is increasing the number of County Board members and School Board members from the current five to at least seven.
Now, let’s...
