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End of an Era: Beyer Automotive is Sold Place - fcnp.com
Oct 24, 2024 · It’s truly the end of a magnificent era in the history of the City of Falls Church. After 51 years, the Falls Church-based Beyer family’s automobile business, begun by Col. Donald S. Beyer, Sr., in 1973, and carried on by his two sons, Michael and current U.S. Rep. Donald Jr., has been sold. All six dealerships around the region were sold …
A Penny for Your Thoughts December 26, 2024 - fcnp.com
Dec 26, 2024 · It’s Christmas, Hanukah, winter holiday – however you observe, as 2024 phases into history, there are highlights and lowlights to remember. In past years, I opted to offer traditional candy canes and lumps of coal, a la fairy tales. In the future, those traditions may not hold. Candy canes might be banned if Robert F.
A Penny for Your Thoughts December 19, 2024 - fcnp.com
Dec 19, 2024 · Most elected officials choose public service because of the rewards – developing trust, solving community problems, assisting constituents, making difficult governance decisions – not for the awards. Winning an election often is award enough, but recognition by one’s peers is a treasure enjoyed by a few local leaders. Each year, the Regional Excellence in Leadership
New Director of HR Named for F.C. - Falls Church News-Press Online
Wednesday, Dec.18 - Today, City Manager Wyatt Shields announced the hiring of Sharon Gibson as the new Director of Human Resources for the City of Falls Church. For more than 25 years, Sharon Gibson has lived in the D.C. Metro area and worked in Human Resources (HR) across many different roles and capacities which informs her understanding
The F.C. Legacy Of Bob Young - Falls Church News-Press Online
Nov 21, 2024 · We don’t often see people of Bob Young’s intellectual and cultural magnitude in normal walks of life. He beat his head against the wall trying to get things done in his first area home in McLean before learning of an urge for growth just up the road in little Falls Church, where he showed up in 1999. While Falls Church had also had a reputation of downright hostility to commercial growth ...
Falls Church Community News & Notes: October 10, 2024
Oct 10, 2024 · Annual Cornhole Tournament Benefits Homestretch On September 20, Baker Construction and John Moriarty & Associates hosted their 5th Annual Charity Cornhole Tournament benefitting Homestretch, a Falls Church-based nonprofit organization dedicated to address and reverse the root causes of homelessness. The successful event raised $115,000 for …
Collective Bargaining to Impact New F.C. Budget
Dec 11, 2024 · Taking its place for the first time as a major factor in the City of Falls Church annual budget process, collective bargaining in the shaping of teacher and other employee compensations was felt in the first public steps toward a FY26 budget taken at the City Council meeting this Monday. This is the first year that collective bargaining has figured into the budget process, based on a new law ...
Beyer Hails News of 1st Operational Fusion Plant
Dec 18, 2024 · As the founder of the Congressional Fusion Energy Caucus, Falls Church’s U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. was ecstatic in his response to the news this week that the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant is finally getting built, and it will be built in Virginia. “I am thrilled to see a powerful step in fusion development undertaken in …
Bob Young, F.C. Business Leader, Dies at 82 - fcnp.com
Nov 21, 2024 · Currents throughout the City of Falls Church’s corridors of government, education, economic development and general good will were shaken to learn of the passing this Monday night of Robert A. “Bob” Young, for two dozen years a ubiquitous fixture in the life of the Little City as a first-rate developer of commercial and residential properties