A fundraiser supporting the arts and efforts to preserve Black history in Arlington showcased the work of a local artist last week.
The Langston Boulevard Alliance hosted the event on Sept. 24, displaying photographic collages created by Zane Killgo that explore the Halls Hill, Arlington View (Johnson’s Hill) and Green Valley communities.
The Arlington library system has developed a creative tool to bring the county’s Black history to life.
Using photos taken of youth participating in recreation activities during the era of segregation, library officials have commissioned a number of jigsaw puzzles to engage children and youth alike.
The lives of six residents of a historic African-American Arlington community were celebrated during Green Valley Day on Saturday (Sept. 19).
“Green Valley Greats” honored the civic legacies of George “Go-Go” Long, Joan Cooper, John Robinson, Leonard “Doc” Muse, Dr. Alfred Taylor and Portia Clark.
An Alexandria man is being held on several charges after police say he threw bricks at the home of a woman he knows.
The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night on S. Lowell Street in the Green Valley neighborhood.
A significant fire in the basement of a large home in Green Valley left five residents searching for a place to stay.
The fire was reported just after 11 p.m. last Thursday, Aug. 27, on the 3100 block of 17th Street N., near the intersection with S. Glebe Road.
A proposed redesign of Green Valley’s Drew Park expands on natural elements and things to do, while also attending to some visitors’ more urgent needs.
The draft final design for the park, located next to Drew Elementary School, includes a new fitness area next to the basketball court, an additional play area near the spray pad, barbecue grills, a picnic pavilion and raised garden beds.
Someone fired gunshots outside a Green Valley apartment building early Saturday morning — and more than six hours passed before anyone called police.
That’s according to the latest Arlington County Police Department crime report.
Dr. Alfred O. Taylor, Jr., a local leader who chronicled the history of his beloved Green Valley community and served as a fatherly mentor to many in civic life, died last week at age 91.
“So much of the strength, pride and community spirit of Green Valley today is built on the foundation he helped lay through a lifetime of dedicated service and steady leadership,” the Green Valley Civic Association said in a statement upon his death.
Additional after-school opportunities will be available to youth in Green Valley at the start of this school year.
The Center for Youth and Family Advocacy (CYFA) is expanding “The Zone,” its literacy-focused after-school program, to students in first and second grades at Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School.
More than a dozen leaders from Green Valley’s Mount Zion Baptist Church traveled to Pittsburgh last week to dedicate a gravestone honoring the congregation’s first pastor.
For the past 123 years, the Rev. Robert Simon Laws’ remains had rested in an unmarked grave at historic Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. After learning of the lack of a gravestone, Mount Zion decided to do something about it.
A package of local street safety projects and the final draft design for upgrades to Doctor’s Run Park are both collecting public feedback through this weekend.
The deadline to submit input on all projects is Sunday. The street projects are intended to improve pedestrian safety on roads in Green Valley, Virginia Square and East Falls Church, while Doctor’s Run Park is expected to get a resurfaced volleyball court and updated playground equipment, among other changes.
A Maryland man is facing a serious felony charge after police say he got out of his car and struck a pedestrian.
The apparent road rage incident happened just after 10 a.m. Friday on Shirlington Road near the W&OD Trail, between the Shirlington and Green Valley neighborhoods. It was captured on traffic camera video, below.
