Mount Vernon News Archives

W. Wade Homesley and Orea Mauney Homesley celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Sept.

Ben Lomond Historic Site was named one of the top 65 Historic Sites to visit in Virginia by the American Heritage Magazine in its fall 2009 edition.

Twelve-year-old Bradley Johnson was fishing in Aquia Creek last weekend, expecting to catch a bass or catfish.

Over the last five years, Inova Mount Vernon Hospital has rebounded along with a new emphasis in specialty care.

Approximately 50 people attended last weeka s Mount Vernon Council of Citizens Associations meeting, including 27 association presidents, who voted on proposed changes to the countya s Comprehensive Plan.

When Katie Rippy was five-years-old, she lined her stuffed animals in a row and recited the alphabet.

This weekend you can drive north or south, and either way leave the 21st century behind and step back in time.

Many students of Fairfax County Public Schools class of 2009 outperformed the national average and Virginia on the SAT college entrance exam, but West Potomac High School, located 4.3 miles apart from Mount Vernon High School, scored on average 60 points higher than Mount Vernon.

Laurel Hill Elementary School officially opens doors Thursday, Sept. 3. Wednesday, September 09, 2009 The scene at the Thursday, Sept.

Catherine Boynton, 6, receives her certificate of citizenship during a citizenship ceremony at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens in Mount Vernon, Virginia, on September 3, 2009.

Lower student-to-teacher ratios make individualized teaching easier, they say. Wednesday, September 02, 2009 Alexa Williams knew her academic experience would be different when she transferred into Episcopal High School in 10th grade.