New Alerts Coming Soon — Fairfax County will soon have a new emergency alert system. It will replace the current Community Emergency Alert Network (CEAN). The new system will launch next month. [Fairfax County]

Kudos To SLHS Girls Soccer — Several Seahawks earned All-Liberty Conference honors. [South Lakes Athletics]

Former South Lakes Principal Dies — George Felton, principal at South Lakes High School in the 1980s, died earlier this month in Gainesville, Va. [Legacy.com]

DC (Area) Strong — The Washington, D.C., area has been ranked the fittest in the nation. [DCist]

Spelling Into the Semis — Hunters Woods ES sixth grader Jae Canetti made it out of the preliminaries and into today’s semifinals at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. [Scripps National Spelling Bee]