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The Falls Church Planning Commission voted 4-0 to recommend a change in the Falls Church Comprehensive Plan designation for the land inclusive of the Fellows Tract at 604 S. Oak Street. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 9
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Fairfax School Board Creates Study Group to Mull Stuart Name Change
Confederate General’s Name for Local High School Under Fire
BY DREW COSTLEY
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Donald Trump said some more disgusting things over the weekend. If this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention. SEE PAGE 14
STATE DEL. MARK LEVINE (second from left) of Virginia held forth at a monthly open house for constituents at a restaurant in Del Rey last Saturday where the presidential election was on the forefront of everyone’s mind. (P����: N���-P����)
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372 Attend DNC Watch Event at F.C.’s State Theatre for Clinton
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BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON
Lonnie Jordan, the only founding member of the group War who is still performing under the band’s name, said that he owes the group’s longevity to what he calls the “Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fans.”
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Falls Church-based Democratic Party organizer Peg Willingham was the key mover who convinced the local F.C. Democratic Committee to rent the State Theatre last Thursday to host a TV-watch event, using the theater’s mega-screen to view the Democratic convention acceptance speech of Hillary Clinton. Yesterday, Willingham issued a statement, hailing the
event as a huge success, with an official head count at 372. Local enthusiasm for the Democratic presidential ticket peaked just prior to the convention when it was announced that Virginia’s U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a frequent visitor to the City over the course of years of statewide campaigns crisscrossing the state dating back to 1999, was the party’s choice as its vice presidential nominee. Because of his warm personality, many people who’ve
met Kaine, even if only to shake his hand, claim him as a personal friend. In Falls Church, a campaign stop by Kaine in the small parking lot at what was then Stacy’s Coffee (now “spacebar”), was memorialized in a photo shoot by local photographer Shaun vanSteyn, who said he sent a copy of a photo from that event to Kaine with a personal note last week. Kaine spoke at a F.C.
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The Fairfax County School Board voted by a 10-2 margin in favor of creating a working group to consider renaming J.E.B. Stuart High School at the board’s regular meeting on Thursday, July 28. There was contention expressed by board members over the necessity of renaming the school, the manner in the process has played out over the last year and whether or not there should be a working group at all prior to the vote. Board members Tamara D. Kaufax, Ryan McElveen, Jane K. Strauss, Karen Corbett Sanders, Sandra S. Evans, Patricia Hynes, Ilryong Moon, Tom Wilson, Megan McLaughlin and Dalia Palchik voted in favor of creating the working group. Jeanette Hough and Elizabeth Schultz voted against the measure. The board voted on a substitute motion, proposed by Kaufax, that replaced the one originally proposed by Evans, the newly elected school board chair and representative of Mason district, where Stuart is located. The substitute motion included a clause about engaging the community over the potential of renaming the school in a “public and transparent manner.” Karen Garza, superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, will choose the members of the working group in consultation with the school board. The substitute motion also called for “the Full Board” to be consulted in creating the working group, instead of just “the Board,” as was proposed in the original motion. The work-
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