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Weekly happenings in Vienna

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Vienna Teen Wins National Gold Medal in Art

Also receives $10,000 Scholarship at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Razan Elbaba, 17, a senior at Oakton High School in Vienna, won the Gold Medal Portfolio and a $10,000 scholarship in the 2016 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards presented by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers in New York.

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Spring Fun Has Sprung in Vienna

From food festivals to ViVa! Vienna! and things in between, warm weather events blossom in the Vienna area.

Some days, more than others, it appears that spring has finally sprung. Fortunately, events are planned and announced long before the last snowflake has fallen, giving the community things to look forward to …

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BASIS.ed Alumni Reunite at Tysons Sheraton Premiere

School registration is underway for Tysons Corner’s new school, BASIS Independent McLean. The school will be located at 8000 Jones Branch Drive in McLean.

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Burke, Centreville, Chantilly, Springfield: Brain Injury Services honors volunteers and community partners

Maya Simbulan of Fairfax is thankful for being normal. The Lake Braddock Secondary School freshman would like to pursue work with computer graphics and plays electric wheelchair soccer.

Vienna, Oakton Home Sales: February, 2016

In February, 2016, 63 homes sold between $1,525,000-$180,000 in the Vienna and Oakton area.

Vienna, Oakton Home Sales: February, 2016

Vienna: Oakton Girls’ Basketball Upset by Langley in State Semis

Cougars fall short at VCU for second straight season.

The Oakton girls' basketball team finished the season with a 29-1 record.

Celebrating Spring in Vienna, McLean and Great Falls

From Easter to St. Patrick's Day to the first blossoms, get ready for spring.

UVA Students to Tackle Global Health Issues

Area students among 52 scholarship recipients.

From studying honey as a wound-healing additive in Rwanda to assessing the effect of mobile banking on women in rural India, 52 University of Virginia students will use Center for Global Health scholarships this summer to address public health problems in the far-flung corners of the globe.

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Oakcrest Awards Scholarships

Oakcrest School in McLean awarded scholarships to Maria Luisa Bertolini, current Oakcrest eighth grade student, and Angela Diaz-Bonilla, a homeschooled student, as the recipients of the Class of 2020 Veritas Award.

Week in Vienna

Weekly happenings in Vienna

Vienna: Presidential Must-Read

If praise from a former U.S. president, and a Foreword by another is any evidence, local author David Priess has hit the target with his first book.

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Vienna: History Revisited at Thoreau Middle

At school’s Speakeasy Day students showcase projects of their choice and immerse themselves in Roaring Twenties culture.

Standing in the corner of the school’s library, Nathaniel Kurtis, a seventh-grade student at Thoreau Middle School, stood behind his poster and lego model of a truck and plane that he would soon present to his teachers and peers.

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Vienna: Fun Things To Do in the Area on Spring Break

You don’t have to fly to have fun.

Not everyone wants to get on an aircraft during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Fortunately, if you live in the Vienna area, there are lots of fun things to do that other Americans pay to do (hint: no hotels, no flights).

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Basheer & Edgemoore Introduces New Neighborhood at Maymont

Basheer & Edgemoore has announced their final encore at the National Community of the Year, Maymont, near Tysons.