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1 week ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
Catherine M. Hudgins, who represented the Hunter Mill district on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from 1999 to 2019, died on Saturday, May 24. Hudgins worked to transform Fairfax County into a progressive, inclusive jurisdiction that prioritized all residents, including those traditionally marginalized in community planning and infrastructure development.
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1 week ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
Residents in Fairfax County observed Memorial Day weekend and the Monday observance with various ceremonies, wreath presentations, musical performances, and other events. “Memorial Day is a day of reflection and remembrance of those who died while serving in the U.S. military,” states the Congressional Research Service, a non-partisan research agency within the Library of Congress that provides analysis to members of Congress and their staff.
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1 week ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis presented the Fairfax County Police Department Crime and Recruiting Data Update during the Board of Supervisors Safety and Security Committee Meeting on Monday, May 20. Davis first compared 2024 vs. 2023 Year-End Crime Data, followed by 2025 vs. 2024 Q-1 (first quarter) Crime Data, and closed with Recruitment and Retention.
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2 weeks ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
0 Votes Fairfax County Public Schools plans to update the school boundary change scenarios this summer. The division offers an interactive “FCPS Boundary Review Scenario Explore” tool at https://www.fcpsboundaryreview.org/
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2 weeks ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
Five academically talented Fairfax County Public High School students are awarded 2025 “Corporate-sponsored Scholarships” from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Two awardees are from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, two are from Langley High School, and one is from McLean High School. The five students are among over 830 National Merit finalists chosen to receive scholarships financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.
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2 weeks ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
Congressman Gerry Connolly, the longtime Virginia politician and influential Democratic statesman on Capitol Hill, died early Wednesday, May 21. He was 75. “It is with immense sadness that we share that our devoted and loving father, husband, brother, friend, and public servant, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, passed away peacefully at his home this morning, surrounded by family," announced his family.
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2 weeks ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
The number of people experiencing homelessness increased in Fairfax County by 3 percent to 1,322 (increase of 44 individuals) on Jan. 22, 2025, compared to 1,278 on Jan. 24, 2024, according to the recent report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG). The Washington area jurisdictions' number of individuals experiencing homelessness decreased by one percent from their 2024 enumeration, shrinking by "115 persons from 2024," reports COG.
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2 weeks ago | 
viennaconnection.com | Mercia Hobson
In a show of environmental resilience, on Friday afternoon, April 25, Arbor Day 2025, Fairfax County Supervisor Walter Alcorn joined the Mayor of the Town of Vienna, Linda Colbert; Paul Gilbert, executive director of NOVA Parks; Virginia State Delegate Holly Seibold; and others who gathered on a portion of the Town Green in Vienna behind the Freeman House and Museum.
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3 weeks ago | 
reston-connection.com | Mercia Hobson
On May 2, approximately 100 individuals gathered in front of the Old Town Hall on Town Green in Herndon to celebrate Día Internacional de los Trabajadores (International Workers’ Day). The early evening rally organized by the New Virginia Majority (NVM) aimed to bring together the working and immigrant communities, according to Josif Ezekilov, a local advocate for NVM.
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3 weeks ago | 
connectionnewspapers.com | Mercia Hobson
Barbara Cheryl Terio-Simon died Friday, April 25, at the age of 81. Born in Washington, D.C. in March of 1944, Terio-Simon moved to Reston in 1969. She was a community activist and philanthropist, and the partner and wife for 22 years of developer Robert E. Simon Jr., the founder of Reston, until he died in 2015. The couple married in 2004. Terio-Simon collaborated with Eric MacDicken to write the book “Community Is What It Is All About: An Ode to Lake Anne,” in 2022. The book elucidates Robert E.
