Monday Notes
McKay, new board sworn in
Jeff McKay is officially the new chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, while Lee District Supervisor Rodney Lusk and Mount Vernon District Supervisor Dan Storck were sworn in along with the rest of the new board on Dec. 16.
Lusk, who replaces McKay, is the first black man to ever serve on the board. McKay, who grew up in the Woodlawn area and had previously been Lee District Supervisor, is the first chairman in the board’s history from the Richmond Highway area.
Storck, who like Lusk ran unopposed, is beginning his second term as Mount Vernon District Supervisor.
See more on the new board at Reston Now
Sentencing in killing of Fort Hunt teacher’s aide
Charles Benson, who gave a handgun to the man who then shot and killed Tarreece Sampson in the parking lot of a Richmond Highway apartment complex in 2016, was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week.
Benson, along with co-defendant Tre’Sur Hawkins, had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year for the May 2016 killing of Sampson, who worked as a teacher’s aide at Fort Hunt Elementary School. Hawkins will be sentenced in February.
School Board sworn in
Newly elected members of the Fairfax County Public Schools School Board were sworn in last week at Luther Jackson Middle School. The board, completely made up of Democratic Party-endorsed members after the November elections, will have eight new faces this term. It will also be the most diverse in the county’s history.
Read more on the Fairfax Times
Hayield assistant principal hired for Lee opening
Fairfax County Public Schools announced last week that Alfonso Smith, currently an associate principal at Hayfield Secondary School, has been appointed as principal of Lee High School.
Plan for Kingstowne Shoppers
Shoppers has not announced a closing date for the Franconia grocery store, but there are reportedly plans to split the space in three different businesses.
Read more in Alexandria Living Magazine
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