November 4, 2024
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: Bailey’s Elementary School

Bailey’s Elementary Schools gets a new principal

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Satonya Dews Satonya Dews, the assistant principal at West Springfield Elementary School, has been named the new principal of Bailey’s Primary Elementary School in Bailey’s Crossroads, effective Feb. 1.  She will succeed Interim Principal August Frattali.  Dews began her career in Fairfax County Public Schools as a teacher at Woodley Hills Elementary School in 2012, where … Continued

Explore a Park: Lillian Carey Park

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This is the second piece in our series on parks in the Annandale/Mason District area. The first one was about Manassas Gap Park. Lillian Carey Park is a 13-acre, wooded park at 5921 Summers Lane, in Bailey’s Crossroads. It is adjacent to Holmes Run Park. Features – Tennis/pickleball courts, a picnic shelter, and a playground. Access – The best … Continued

County wants to make it easier to convert old office buildings to new uses

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Bailey’s Elementary School The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is considering a proposal to make it easier to convert older, underutilized office buildings to other uses, such as housing, schools, light manufacturing, or even urban agriculture. Public hearings on the proposed amendment to the county’s Comprehensive Plan are scheduled before the Planning Commission on Nov. … Continued

Bailey’s Crossroads gets a farmers market

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Seasonal produce at the mobile market at Bailey’s. A new mobile farmers market is providing fresh, affordable produce to Bailey’s Crossroads residents once a week through October. The Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture is bringing the market to the parking lot at Bailey’s Elementary School, 6111 Knollwood Drive, every Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The … Continued

New gym completed at Bailey’s Elementary School

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The new gym at Bailey’s Upper. Bailey’s Upper Elementary School now has a 5,000-square-foot gymnasium plus an outdoor playground and ball field. The new gym was officially opened April 26 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Bailey’s patrols gather for the ribbon-cutting. In the foreground, left to right: Principal Marie Lemmon, School Board Chair Sandy Evans, Mason … Continued

School news

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Second-graders at Annandale Terrace Elementary School check a rain gauge and make notes about the weather as part of a unit on meteorology. [FCPS] An occasional series highlighting information about Fairfax County Public Schools and programs and activities at schools in the Annandale/Mason District area. The information here is from FCPS and individual schools. Bailey’s … Continued

Bailey’s Upper Elementary, Wilson Library get design awards

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Bailey’s Upper Elementary School [Josh Meister Photo] Two buildings in the Mason District are among the nine projects honored with a 2016 Fairfax County Exceptional Design Award. Bailey’s Upper Elementary School on Leesburg Pike in Seven Corners received an Honor Award, and the renovated Woodrow Wilson Library in Bailey’s Crossroads received a Merit Award. The … Continued

Bailey’s ES lunch lady arrested for embezzlement

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Sarsaur [FCPD] A Fairfax County Public Schools employee, Fadwa Sarsaur, 51, was arrested for embezzling money from student lunch accounts at Bailey’s Elementary School, at 6111 Knollwood Drive in Bailey’s Crossroads. Fairfax County Police detectives began an investigation on June 16 after staff in the FCPS Office of Food and Nutrition Services discovered discrepancies in … Continued

New principal sought for Bailey’s Lower Elementary School

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The lower campus of Bailey’s Elementary. Fairfax County Public Schools plans to hire a new principal for the original Bailey’s Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 2. Parents are invited to a meeting on the principal selection process March 7, 7 p.m., at Bailey’s Lower. Marie Lemmon will continue as principal of Bailey’s Upper … Continued

Santa’s Ride will stop at Bailey’s Elementary School

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Santa’s Ride will be stopping at Bailey’s Primary Elementary School on Dec. 15. Every year, local law enforcement officers cruise by local elementary schools on motorcycles – some dressed in Santa outfits or as other winter characters – to collect donated toys for children at Fairfax Hospital and the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center. Local residents … Continued

Muslim women’s group helps needy families at Bailey’s Elementary

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The Muslim Women’s Coalition donates Ramadan baskets to Bailey’s Elementary School. [MWC photo] Add the Muslim Women’s Coalition to the list of local organizations that quietly go about the business of making our community a better place. This spring, just before the start of Ramadan, the group made 101 “Ramadan baskets” – laundry baskets filled with … Continued

Discrimination suit against Bailey’s principal ‘dismissed with prejudice’

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Lemmon The lawsuit filed by four employees of Bailey’s Elementary School against Principal Marie Lemmon charging her with discrimination and harassment has been “dismissed with prejudice.” The suit, filed in federal court in September by former assistant principal Rachel Charlton, former teachers Yolanda Calhoun and Shyrone Stith, and former student J.C. Calhoun, claimed Lemmon and … Continued

Construction of Bailey’s Upper play areas won’t happen until 2016 at the earliest

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The site plan for Bailey’s Upper Elementary School, showing the proposed gym (red), outdoor play space (green), and sports court (blue). Leesburg Pike is along the bottom edge. The gym and play area planned for Bailey’s Upper Elementary School probably won’t be built until 2016 or beyond. Brady Rauch, of the design and construction department … Continued