For the week ending May 9, Fort Belvoir’s Directorate of Emergency Services reported the following:

At 6 a.m. Saturday, CWO2 Clint Harris began mowing Woodlawn Cemetery while his son, Jason, raked leaves. By 8 a.m. about 50 others had joined him from Fort Belvoir, Woodlawn United Methodist Church and Fort Belvoir Elementary School. They were there to clean the cemetery and honor veterans buried there by placing flags at each headstone in honor of Memorial Day.

After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Woodlawn Road and Beulah Street were closed to public use through Fort Belvoir. In a cooperative effort, the Virginia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Fairfax County and the U.S. Army will construct a replacement road that will extend and widen existing Old Mill Road, now named Mulligan Road, from Route 1 (Richmond Highway) to Telegraph Road through Fort Belvoir.

From Monday to May 31, no Virginia sales tax will be charged on the purchase of many items that can be used to prepare homes for hurricane and flood season and to fill emergency supply kits. 

Summer fun is around the corner and part of that excitement revolves around what movies will be hitting the big screen this year.

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They ranged from tiny dancers to talented teen ballerinas and from the classical to the contemporary.

Scheduled power outages will affect homes in Belvoir Village from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Defense Department officials released the names of five Soldiers killed in a shooting at a combat stress clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq Monday.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the DoD will devote its “highest-priority attention” to Monday’s slaying of five U.S. servicemembers in Baghdad.