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FCCPS founder to celebrate 100th birthday

According to the Falls Church Episcopal website, there will be a service at the Historic Church to honor Jessie Thackrey, on Sunday, June 16, 2013 starting at 10:00 a.m.  After the service, she will be further celebrated with a pot-luck dinner, which will take place on the church grounds.  This event is open to the Falls Church community.

The following week, Thackrey will celebrate her 100^th birthday at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle Sc...

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Get ready, it’s cicada season

Any day now, billions of six-legged flying critters called cicadas will swarm the east coast, outnumbering humans roughly 600 to 1.   Expect the loud buzzing noise they make from as far south as North Carolina all the way up to Connecticut for about four to six weeks.

“I’m not very excited about the cicadas,” said Andrew Skomra.

A brood is a type of cicada. There are different broods that come out at different times in their lifetime....

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Mason Stuff-a-Truck project ends, students prepare to send check

The Stuff-a-Truck project group has ended their donations period and collected the money to be sent to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey in Atlantic City to help Hurricane Sandy aftermath.

The Stuff-a-Truck project began when Spanish teacher Suzanne Planas suggested to a group of students that they should organize something in response to Hurricane Sandy.

“There are many responses to these communities right after disasters when the ...

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PROM Highlights

Check out the video filmed and edited by FCCTV and Mr. Byrd's tweets from this year's GMHS Prom.

@MasonMustangs tweets from Prom

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Decoding upcoming SOL schedule

There are only about four more weeks of school, three of which are filled with standardized testing. Virginia SOL’s take up two of those weeks, from May 20 to May 31. The regular bell schedule will go on as scheduled for all days except the first Friday, May 24, which has a schedule change: block three, then block one, block seven, and block five.

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