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Your own piece of Mount Vernon, for $25 million. Some fix-up may be required.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:36 GMT


Just when you thought the real estate market couldn’t get any weirder, CNBC reported last week that there is a “mansion shortage” in this country. The inventory of $1 million-plus homes is plummeting, Robert Frank wrote. But before you collapse … Continue reading →
    


Fairfax’s Mark Mitchell is one of nation’s top historians, collectors of African Americana

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:00:56 GMT


He’s a white, 67-year-old jazz saxophone player from Takoma Park. And now, from his townhouse in Fairfax County, Mark E. Mitchell has amassed a collection of African American memorabilia which places him at the forefront of experts in African American … Continue reading →
    



Evvie Heilbrunn of Great Falls battles her newest obstacle: Mount Everest

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:50:19 GMT


Athletic, vivacious, successful, Evelyn “Evvie” Heilbrunn was enjoying life as a patent lawyer, sports fan and mother of four when she learned in 2000 that she had breast cancer. After a mastectomy and radiation treatment, she beat that “nuisance,” as … Continue reading →
    


Kristin Gardner Kelly gets 5 years for embezzling $90K from star DJ Sharam Tayebi

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:00:53 GMT


Kristin Marie Gardner Jeffries Kelly Kurt has been busy in her 31 years, as her name would indicate. She’s been married three times, had two children, done jail time for stealing nearly $150,000 from a Springfield company, apparently committed bigamy … Continue reading →
    


Prince William ceases and desists using its new logo, drawing board ahead

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:00:29 GMT


Prince William County’s new two-blue-square logo is being pulled down from county letterhead and signs, county clothes and county vehicles after the Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday it wasn’t ready for prime time, yet. Supervisor John Jenkins (D-Neabsco) said the … Continue reading →
    



Fairfax County schools take the lead nationwide in teaching safe football tackling

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:06:10 GMT


Fairfax County schools and sports officials have been very attentive to the growing concern about head trauma in football, including seminars for parents and the Centreville youth football league being one of the first three in the nation to try out the new "Heads Up" tackling program. Heads Up teaches safer tackling techniques, keeping the head away from contact, in hopes of reducing head injuries. It is promoted by USA Football, the youth football wing of the NFL

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Fairfax County schools take the lead nationwide in teaching safe football tackling

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:05:15 GMT


Fairfax County schools and sports officials have been very attentive to the growing concern about head trauma in football, including seminars for parents and the Centreville youth football league being one of the first three in the nation to try … Continue reading →
    

The buzz is gone: Vienna’s Terrorist Screening Center goes quiet, finally

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:11:15 GMT


After three summers of enduring a torturous, nonstop buzzing noise from a nearby office building, residents of a tree-lined Vienna neighborhood opened their windows, returned to their decks and dined al fresco for the first time this past weekend. The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center on Follin Lane completed the replacement of its noisy rooftop cooling towers and will soon install screens that should make the building’s ambient noise vanish, as promised by FBI officials last year.

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They did it: Arlington's Frank Fumich and Matt Nelson ran to Boston, raised $81,100 for victims

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:13:22 GMT


The trauma and triumph of running from the Pentagon to the Boston Marathon finish line ended Saturday afternoon. Frank Fumich of Arlington and fellow ultra-marathoner Matt Nelson of Lake Worth, Fla., ran the final 26.2 miles together on the Boston Marathon course, joined for the last 19 miles by Erin Hurley, one of many runners who didn't get to finish when the bombs exploded. Waiting for her at the finish line that April day was her boyfriend Jeffrey Bauman, who lost both legs and was photographed minutes later in an image that circled the globe and visually summarized the day's tragedy. After they finished Saturday, Hurley gave her Boston Marathon medal to Fumich, one of many emotional moments for him over the four-day odyssey.

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They did it: Arlington’s Frank Fumich and Matt Nelson ran to Boston, raised $81,100 for victims

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:11:23 GMT


The trauma and triumph of running from the Pentagon to the Boston Marathon finish line ended Saturday afternoon. Frank Fumich of Arlington and fellow ultra-marathoner Matt Nelson of Lake Worth, Fla., ran the final 26.2 miles together on the Boston … Continue reading →
    

New Prince William County logo draws ire of some supervisors

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:34:00 GMT


The new logo is a dark blue square inside a larger, lighter blue square. Simple, spare, modern. Does it embody Prince William County in all its blue-squaredness? Some say no, and one Prince William supervisor wants the county to “cease, desist and rescind” the proposed logo from county letterheads and property.

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Update: Arlington's Frank Fumich, Matt Nelson approach Boston, some bumps along the way

Fri, 31 May 2013 04:47:41 GMT


You will recall that ultra-marathoner Frank Fumich of Arlington and fellow endurance runner Matt Nelson of Lake Worth, Fla., set out on Tuesday morning to run 450 miles, from the Pentagon to the Boston Marathon finish line, to raise even more money for bombing victim Jeffrey Bauman and the family of eight-year-old victim Martin Richard. They had already raised $52,000, and now are going for $78,600, or $1,000 for every mile of three marathons.

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