Ice cream shop owner defeats incumbent mayor of small Virginia town with write-in campaign The Fairfax County Office of Elections finished tallying votes for Clifton mayor Tuesday, and Tom ...

A banner declaring “Black Lives Matter” that has greeted visitors to the tiny Virginia town of Clifton since June was torn down and stolen early this week, Mayor William Hollaway said.

Clifton, one of three incorporated towns along with Vienna and Herndon in the county, plans to rename the meeting hall to Wayne H. Nickum Town Hall in honor of the former mayor who spent 10 years ...

Nickum also served as a member of the Clifton Betterment Association from 1972 to the present, the Friends of the Fairfax Station, Inc., and on the Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board.

CLIFTON FORGE, Va. (WDBJ) - Pamela Marshall paved the way in Clifton Forge as the town’s first African American female mayor. “Anytime you’re the first anything is hard,” Marshall said.