Critter Corner

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Falls Church News-Press

Vol. VI, No. 42 • January 2, 1997

School Board May Have to Pay All Dignan’s Contract

Falls Church News-Press

Vol. XXI, No. 43 • January 12, 2012

City of F.C. Faces Year of Opportunities, Challenges from Next Door Neighbor

Washington D.C. based experts in employment law have told the News-Press that the Falls Church School Board may be faced with having to pay out the full cost equivalent of the four year contract of Superintendent Dr. Patricia Dignan in negotiations now underway for an early termination of that contract.

The City of Falls Church moves into a 2012 that will be filled with those prospects of challenge and opportunity. The City has confronted extraordinary difficulties in recent years but a severe political and legal offensive from its oversized neighbor, Fairfax County. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM

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I RAN INTO RYAN a day after Christmas who appeared to be just as busy as he was in the days leading up to the holiday. A Native of Quantico, Va, Ryan spent 20 years in New York before returning to the area. When asked if he had any parting words he quickly replied, ‘Thanks for keeping us employed!’ (P����: J.

M������ W�����) ZOE was adopted in January of last year and is celebrating her first adopt-iversary with her family! Zoe is well known from her daily walks in the neighborhood with her always wagging tail and unmistakable one eye. She loves car rides with her head sticking out of the passenger door and making friends at Birch & Broad!

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