Community Corner
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Sept. 13
FCCPS board will host a work session and regular meeting tonight.
- Falls Church City Public Schools Board will hold a work session (7:30 p.m.) and public meeting (8:30) at City Hall tonight. Here is the meeting’s agenda.
- A portion of the far right, northbound lane in the 400 block of N. Washington Street in the City of Falls Church will be temporarily closed to traffic between E. Columbia to E. Jefferson Streets from Sept. 12-16.
- On this day in 1977, General Motors introduced the first U.S. diesel car (Oldsmobile 88).
- On this day in 1989, Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa.
- If today is your birthday, you share it with talk show host Tavis Smiley (47-years-old) and the late Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey Chocolates (154-years-old). Happy birthday!
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