ROB JACKSON first noticed the clear cutting of trees across from Cooper Middle School when he was going to New York City with a Langley High School musical group April 18. Jackson, president of the McLean Citizens Association, thought someone was building a new house or possibly some townhouses on the site. It wasn’t until a few days later that he discovered the area would be used as a heavy construction staging area. "It is just not acceptable to put an industrial site in the middle of a residential neighborhood affecting schools," said Jackson. Read more...
AS PLEASANT GROVE Church housed its annual spring fund-raiser on Saturday, May 3, the future looked relatively rosy for a building that was built by hand more than 100 years ago, once came within minutes of demolition and on another occasion had its steeple destroyed by lightning. Read more...
McLean Hits the Trails Talks are under way about mapping trail network, extending Potomac Heritage Trail.
IN THE PARKS just west of the CIA property, McLean resident Don Borcherding made what Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville) called "an enormous find": the possibility of a trail network running from Langley Fork Park to Dead Run. Read more...
AS PLEASANT GROVE Church housed its annual spring fund-raiser on Saturday, May 3, the future looked relatively rosy for a building that was built by hand more than 100 years ago, once came within minutes of demolition and on another occasion had its steeple destroyed by lightning. 
Talks are under way about mapping trail network, extending Potomac Heritage Trail. 
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