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Mount Vernon Key Club is hosting a canned food drive on May 7 at the double header varsity soccer game against West Potomac.   They are collecting and donating canned and non-peris...

Credit Hayley Talbert

Here’s a look at some of the top Patch stories of the past week from across southern Fairfax County and a look at what’s coming up: Those Aren’t Kittens… A Fort Hunt family resc...

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Residents don't have to go far to find a charming 1930s greenhouse stocked with about 50 varieties of tomatoes, many of them heirloom, as well as herbs and flowering plants fit for Mot...

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Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation will host “New Trends in Green Development,” a community event that will highlight the positive environmental benefits resulting from commerci...

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Eleven year-old Beth Pyles has taken on a task not many kids her age would. She has organized a one-mile run for Alice’s Kids, a new local charity that benefits kids in need. The fam...

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The Mount Vernon High School girls track and field team had a busy week of competition highlighted by a trip to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays on April 26. They ran in front of a cro...

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The Mount Vernon Estate will welcome thousands of Girl Scouts from across the country for special activities on Sunday, June 10! The first 250 Girl Scouts to complete the Mount Verno...

Credit Erica R. Hendry

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors formally adopted a $6.7 billion budget Tuesday morning, a spending plan which put aside more money for human services, schools and employee pay but...