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Man reported to be photographing children suspiciously

While attending an outdoor event on Jan. 26 at 6:57 p.m. at Green Hedges School, 415 Windover Ave., N.W., a resident informed Vienna police that an unknown man had taken photographs of the resident’s children.

Association notified after patron suspects scam

A resident living in the 1000 block of Rachel Lane, S.W., told Vienna police on Jan. 24 at noon that he is an association member and had received an e-mail from someone he believed was another member requesting a...

FCPS students take home accolades in regional art competition

A total of 337 Fairfax County Public Schools students earned a total of 533 awards in the 2023 Regional Scholastic Art Awards Program. Students garnered a total of 174 Gold Key awards, 171 Silver Key awards and 188 honorable-mention honors. In...

Legislators honor memory of long-time Langley High educator

An educator who spent nearly a quarter-century impacting lives at Langley High School has been honored by the General Assembly. Janet Bennett Martin of Great Falls, who died last October, joined the faculty at Langley in 1971 and “served and...

Police: Arrests made in thefts of convenience-store gaming devices

Fairfax County police on Jan. 24 arrested two Maryland men about two hours after the latest in a series of gaming-machine thefts from area convenience stores. At 8:55 p.m. that night, Fairfax County police dispatched officers to the 7-Eleven at...

2022 home sales down, prices up in most Va. localities

The year just gone by closed out with 87 percent of counties and cities in Virginia seeing fewer home sales in 2022 compared to 2021, but, paradoxically, 89 percent of those localities showing an increase in median home-sales price,...

Warner, Kaine sign on to D.C.-statehood measure

It’s a bill that is going absolutely, positively nowhere this two-year session of Congress, but Virginia’s two U.S. senators have signed up as cosponsors of a measure giving statehood to a portion of the District of Columbia. “Virginia’s neighbors in...

Students advance in Regeneron competition

Regeneron and the Society for Science on Jan. 25 named two local students as among 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high-school seniors. Ethan Zhou of...

Some payments to authors by library system raising eyebrows

Speaking at Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL) events has proved lucrative to a handful of authors. Most writers who gave presentations at county libraries during the most recent two fiscal years earned three- or at most four-figure fees, but some...

Police: Thieves targeting newly installed gaming machines

Fairfax County police detectives continue to investigate thefts of, and from, gaming machines at 7-Eleven stores throughout the county, police said Jan. 24. Since the end of last year, six thefts have occurred. In each incident, thieves entered the store...
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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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