January 17, 2025
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Grant will benefit Annandale Safe Youth Project

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The Giving Circle of Hope, a Reston-based charity, has selected the Alternative House as one of its 2010 grant recipients. Alternative House will use its $5,000 grant to support the Annandale Safe Youth Project, which provides an after-school program to disadvantaged fourth and fifth-graders—along with homework help, community service opportunities, counseling, food, and enrichment activities—at … Continued

Groundbreaking ceremony heralds construction of new school on Lacey site

#Lacey Center, #neighborhood groups, #schools
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Fairfax County Public Schools officials, government leaders, and members of the Broyhill Crest community gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony Friday afternoon to celebrate the construction of a new elementary school on Crest Drive in Annandale. The school is set to open for the start of the 2012 school year.  School board members Sandy Evans (Mason District), Tessie … Continued

Braddock Elementary’s Walk-4-Education fundraising event promotes fitness

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Braddock Elementary School in Annandale held its first annual Walk-4-Education walk-a-thon Thursday to raise money for the children of the Braddock community and promote the importance of health and fitness. The children walked a designated path near the school (at 7825 Heritage Drive) marked by Braddock’s physical education teachers, Ken Jackson and Alex Winiewicz—one mile for … Continued

Monopole proposed for Holmes Middle School

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The Holmes Middle School administration has reviewed an application from Milestone Communications and T-Mobile to erect a monopole on the Holmes Middle School campus and has agreed to permit the companies to file the application with the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning. According to an announcement from Fairfax County Public Schools, the review … Continued

Farewell to the Lacey Center

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The Lacey Center is almost all gone. The building at the end of Crest Drive in Annanadale that used to house a Fairfax County Public Schools administrative center is being removed to clear the way for a new elementary school. The new school is slated to open for the start of the 2012 school year. … Continued

Group cites lack of transparency in FCPS community engagement process

#Annandale Regional Planning Study Committee, #schools
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Those of you following the Annandale Regional Planning Study and appreciate the opportunity for community engagement might want to look at the political machinations involving the school board’s decision to close Clifton Elementary School. The future of Clifton Elementary was part of the Southwestern Regional Planning Study, a process similar to the one going on now to … Continued

Coalition that opposes Woodson HS bus depot invites public to community meeting Thursday evening

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Everyone who lives in the area near Woodson High School is encouraged to come to a community meeting Thursday evening on the proposed Fairfax County Public Schools bus depot planned for the green space at the high school near the intersection of Pickett Road and Little River Turnpike. The proposed bus depot would include space … Continued

Annandale Regional Planning Study Committee briefed on capacity, enrollment issues

#Annandale High School, #Annandale Regional Planning Study Committee, #Lacey Center, #schools
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Members of the Annandale Regional Planning Study committee pored over large school boundary maps last night as they grappled with what factors should be considered when the Fairfax County school board redraws the attendance areas for public schools in the Annandale area. The ad hoc committee was created to advise the school board on how … Continued

Fairfax County students show academic gains, Superintendent reports

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According to a status report on Fairfax County Public Schools from Superintendent Jack Dale, student achievement is improving, and more students are taking advanced courses: Here are some of the highlights from the report: Projected enrollment for 2010-11 is 175,295, and the number of students from families at or below the poverty level is increasing. … Continued

Beech Tree Elementary in lock down mode

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Beech Tree Elementary School in Falls Church is in lock down mode, pending resolution of a police incident in the neighborhood. At 10:20 this morning, police responded to a domestic violence call at 3300 Hickory Court involving a fight between two family members, a Fairfax County Police spokesperson says. One person with non life-threatening injuries … Continued