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Fou n d e d 1991 • Vol. XXXIV No. 32
The City of Falls Church’s Independent, Locally-Owned Newspaper of Record, Serving N. Virginia
1st Day for Voting in Fall Election Is Tomorrow
THIS FABULOUS FALL FESTIVAL
U.S. President, Congress & F.C. Council Race on Ballot by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
This Fall’s enormously consequential election may still seem a ways off, but in reality it is right on top of us. That’s right, in fact early voting will begin tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 20. Not only will the big one, the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, be on ballots that registered voters in Falls Church will be able to cast at City Hall starting tomorrow, but so will be an important local race to fill a vacancy on the Falls Church City Council. In that local race, two candidates are on the ballot vying for the support of voters here – former School Board chair Laura Downs and former Board of Zoning Appeals chair John Murphy. Also on the ballot is a single candidate seeking election to the Falls Church School Board, Anne Sherwood. The Falls Church League of Women Voters and the Village Preservation and Improvement Society will co-host a Council Candidate Forum for the candidates
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IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL MOB that filled all the lanes at Saturday’s annual Falls Church Fall Festival and Taste of F.C. Perfect weather helped the events set all-time attendance records. (News-Press Photo)
A Whopping 19 New Restaurants Opening by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
A veritable explosion of 19 new eateries squeezing into the 2.2 square miles of the City of Falls Church is continuing, the City’s Economic Development Authority was told at its monthly City Hall meeting Tuesday night. All slated to be opening soon, and there are still more are on the way. Most are related in one form or another with the construction and competition of the array of large scale mixed use projects that have come or are coming
online here, and it’s hard to divine which deserve greater attention than any others. Already the Little City, benefitting from the keen new interest in its prime location in the DMV along with its outstanding school system and overall quality of its local government, has seen for the first time in its history the emergence of three highly-touted restaurants, regularly included on lists of the wider region’s very finest – Thompson’s Italian, Ellie Bird and Nue – that discriminating diners will come from far and
wide to enjoy. So now more are coming, adding to the “critical mass” here, in conjunction with a lively arts scene (the State Theater, Creative Cauldron soon to be moving to fresh new digs, and the motion picture complex coming, hopefully by next April, into Founders Row). Once known only for its Volvo police cars, Falls Church is becoming famously known as a worthy destination for people and their dollars. City Hall’s Becky Witsman summarized the approaching
new wave to the EDA board Tuesday to include, in no particular order, coming into the Hoffman Group’s dense West Falls 10 acres, Ice Cream Jubilee, Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls, Burger Fi, Seoul Spice and Honoo Ramen and Bar. Into Founders Row 1, in addition to what’s already opened up there, the eagerly-awaited Seoul Prime steakhouse will open next month, the first major steakhouse establishment here that
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