Area search and rescue teams discovered a 23-year-old Northern Virginia man Sunday who had been missing since last week, drowned in a cove in the Rivanna River. Matthew John Kelleher of Alexandria was swimming in the river just above the Woolen Mills dam at about 4 p.m. Friday when he was swept up in a…
Prince William’s six neighborhood libraries are closing three hours earlier on Saturdays this summer, two months after the library board said state budget cuts would not reduce service. The Virginia General Assembly reduced library funding statewide, $124,860 of which fell on the county’s library system to absorb. In budget hearings earlier this year, the Prince…
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors put the Cooperative Council of Ministries to the test, and the alliance of homeless advocates passed. The council wanted to rehabilitate as many of the county’s chronically homeless as possible, on a “drop-in” basis and to use the county’s winter shelter to do so. The supervisors wanted the…
They are nothing more than small plush bean-stuffed toy animals with heart-shaped red tags hanging off an ear or limb. They started a collector’s craze but now those same collectors are sharing some of their prized collectibles with children in need of a little cheering up. Beanie Baby collectors across the country have responded to…
Graham Park Middle School principal Rae Darlington set out to create a bully-free, harassment-free environment for her students. And along the way, her efforts to improve student life at the Triangle school have been so successful that she has been selected Virginia’s Outstanding Middle School Principal for 2003. Darlington, 47, has been principal at the…