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Seasonal Bird Migration Is Well Underway

Birds

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Community Shopping Area Adorned by New Parklet

All sorts of possibilities for colorful space in the Mount Vernon Plaza shopping center.

New Parklet

Updating BRT Station Names

The community spoke out and officials listened.

BRT Names

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Quiet Mowers and Free Fertilizer, the Lamb Mowers

Lambs

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‘Hateful, Ignorant, Wrong’

Thousands of students around the state protest Youngken revisions to 2022 VDOE policies.

Protest

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Mount Vernon Fire Damages Apartments

No injuries reported in the top floor fire.

Fire

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Ribbon Cut on New Mount Vernon Trail Feature

National Park Service improvement is one of a few along the parkway.

MV Trail

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Working Up the Scares at The Haunt in Lorton

Workhouse Arts Center’s Haunted House in Lorton is a work of theatrical proportions.

Workhouse Haunt

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Calmness and Nutrition

Mantra at Zen Press Juice Bar

If you go… Zen Press Juice Bar & Café 8120 Richmond Highway (703) 852-3929 www.zenpressjuice.com/

Scenes in Mount Vernon

There’s more to the community than George Washington and the historic plantation.

Scenes in Mount Vernon

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Tour de Mount Vernon

See the district from the seat of a bicycle

Bike Ride

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Crime Prevention and Business Safety in Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Lee Chamber members gathered together on Thursday, September 8, for the monthly Business Breakfast at Belle Haven Country Club. This month’s presentation focused on crime prevention and business safety.

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New Bike-Ped Bridge Gets Boost with RAISE Funding

River crossing is needed for safety.

Bike Bridge Proposal

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Call to Engage: A Suburban Mom’s Path to Activism

When my oldest daughter was 11 years old, she cried when a tree was cut down in our northern Virginia neighborhood.

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Culinary Instruction Without Borders

Virtual platform takes Melanie Underwood from Fairfax farm to nationwide classroom.

It started with a pastry. Eight-year-old Melanie Underwood trudged through a grassy field in Northern Virginia in search of her father...