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Wednesday Feb 3 | Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Advisory Committee - Finding Solutions'

Community group is expected to offer many alternatives for coping with elementary school overcrowding.

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Wed Jan 27, 2010

RVbasics.com News

Fee hikes proposed for Fairfax County, VA parks

The Fairfax County Park Authority is proposing fee increases at popular campgrounds, as well as pools, horse stalls and a bevy of other recreational outlets to help ease a projected $316 million budget shortfall.

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Tue Jan 26, 2010

Fairfax Times

Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team prepares to exit

A member of Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue on a collapsed section of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince. Members of Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue unit conduct a rescue operation in a collapsed section of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during a search for survivors of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

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Fri Jan 22, 2010

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

An Unlikely Hero

U.S. Postal Service honors Fairfax Station mailman Gustavo Galindo. Gustavo Galindo has been delivering mail to the residents of Fairfax County for more than 21 years with the last six spent exclusively serving the Fairfax Station community.

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Sun Jan 10, 2010

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Deeper Cuts for Schools?

Freezing state funding would add $50 million to the schoolsa TM projected budget shortfall.

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Fri Jan 08, 2010

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Getting Down To Business

Candidates for vacant 37th District State Senate seat meet with constituents at a networking breakfast.

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Thu Jan 07, 2010

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Ahead in 2010: McDonnell Could Bring End To State-Run Liquor Stores

Critics of plan say privatization would come with challenges for Virginia. Thursday, January 07, 2010 If Bob McDonnell has his way, Virginiaa TMs state-run liquor stores will be on their way to extinction by the end of this coming spring.

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Tue Jan 05, 2010

Telegram & Gazette

Bomber was a double agent

The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers and a Jordanian spy last week was a double agent who was taken onto the base in Afghanistan because the Americans hoped he might be able to deliver top members of the Qaida network, according to a Western official briefed on the matter.

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Wed Dec 23, 2009

WJLA-TV Arlington

Procrastinators Pack the Malls

ARLINGTON, Va. - If you still have things on your holiday list, you're not alone.

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Tue Dec 22, 2009

Fairfax Times

Dumping elementary band, orchestra programs a bad idea

I am a 12-year-old resident of Fairfax Station and am currently attending Robinson Secondary School.

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Wed Dec 16, 2009

The Free Lance-Star

William Morris Kent Sr.

William Morris Kent Sr., 80, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, died Sunday, Dec.

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Fri Dec 11, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

All Aboard

Fairfax Station Railroad Museum hosts the 20th annual Model Train Display. Dropping temperatures, falling snow and even a brief power outage could not stop the engines from pumping and the wheels from turning at the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum last weekend.

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Wed Dec 09, 2009

Fairfax Times

Its mission is to protect night skies and natural starlight by educating individuals, groups

Fairfax Station resident Bob Parks is leading the fight against light pollution both locally and nationally in his role as managing director of the International Dark-Sky Association Office of Public Policy and Government Affairs.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Fairfax Times

Two hope to help their parties by winning Cuccinelli's seat in special election

Virginia Democrats are hoping to build on their slim majority in the state Senate by picking up a seat currently held by one of the most conservative legislators in the statehouse, Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli III .

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

CROP Walk 2009

Annual Burke CROP Hunger Walk draws faith groups, churches from across the county.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

WMAL-AM Washington

Fairfax County Police Seek Witnesses To October Fatal Crash

Police in Fairfax County are asking for your help as they continue to investigate an accident that took away the parents of three Fairfax Station children.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Good Deed Done

Patriot District Boy Scouts lead annual a Scouting for Fooda project. Patriot District Boy Scouts can be found throughout the year organizing a myriad of community service projects and events.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Washington Post

Fairfax Station Railroad Museum on track to 20th anniversary

Keli, 2-year-old Maksym and Stefan Jacewitz of Springfield study the detail of a train display at the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Help Make Food Baskets

Last year, Western Fairfax Christian Ministries provided more than 1,300 holiday food baskets to families in need in Centreville, Chantilly, Clifton, Fair Oaks and Fairfax Station.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Traffic Fatalities

Mother, father dead at scene, leave four children. A four-car crash in the Pohick area claimed the lives of the parents of four girls Saturday, Oct.

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