have closed up shop for the year. But all winter long, Oliver Keckler will be selling produce at his Saturday morning farm stand at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 8009 Fort Hunt Road. “In 2023, I only ...

Fairfax County has matched its full-year totals for pedestrian and vulnerable road user deaths from both 2024 and 2025 in under seven months. As the death toll for non-drivers climbed to 14 as of July ...

Key players in the legislative battle over Senate Bill 756, titled "Casino gaming; eligible host localities," weighed in with statements April 9 following Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s veto of the ...

The Franconia District supervisor’s office and the Kingstowne Library are in the process of moving to their location at the new Franconia Governmental Center at 7130 Silver Lake Blvd. in Alexandria.

“It takes a lot to work in the Mount Vernon district,” Fairfax County police Captain Marc Mitchell told his audience at an Aug. 30 “Meet the Commander” gathering at the Sherwood Regional Library. The ...

As the Richmond Highway area revitalizes, the project at the old Mount Vernon High School plays an important role in helping local residents master technology skills and higher paying jobs. An ...

Colonel Marion “Barney” Barnwell, a longtime resident and community activist in the Mount Vernon District, passed suddenly last week and will be missed by the many people that he connected with and ...

Despite the 90-plus-degree heat that felt like 100 degrees, people danced and jived to the Just Us Band’s rendition of “What’s Going on?” and there was lots going on at the June 21 Gum Springs ...

Creativity runs in Ally Kirkpatrick’s blood, flowing into her ice cream business “Fabled Ice Cream,” and into an ice cream bicycle she rides around events selling pints out of the ice box contraption ...

The Gum Springs community will have a new pedestrian and bicycle trail to Little Hunting Creek if the Fairfax County Park Authority’s (FCPA) plans proceed as outlined in a Jan. 13 public meeting. The ...

Up and down the Mount Vernon corridor, there are needs to update and modernize things to keep the community vibrant and desirable to businesses and residents so it will uphold the living standards ...

Hollin Hall in Mount Vernon is a little shopping center off Fort Hunt Road that not only serves the immediate needs in the way of food, hardware and sundries, but it also acts as a gathering place for ...