Northern Virginia Sun

The Northern Virginia Sun was a newspaper published in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., between 1935 and 1998. For most of its career it was a 6-day-a-week broadsheet paper that emphasized local news. [1]

Its legacy can still be seen in the Arlington library system, which has maintained a collection of its "Then and Now" historical series of photos and short essays. [2]

The sun's corporate descendant, Sun Gazette Newspapers, was sold to American Community Newspapers in 2005.

The paper drew national attention in the late 1970s when owner Herman Obermayer said the Sun would print the name of defendants in rape cases that come to trial, out of a sense of "fairness" between the accused and accuser.[3]