Good Friday evening! Today we published 7 articles that were read a total of 7366 times on FFXnow alone, so far.
📈 Top stories
The following are the most-read articles for today (Jan 27, 2023)…
- Date set for full Herndon Festival to return this year
- JUST IN: Reston Association’s Larry Butler to retire after more than 40-year career
- McLean Chocolate Festival is back for 11th year this Sunday
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- SCOOP: New name, new ownership and new mission for Reston’s Roer’s Zoofari (5723 views)
- Photos: Upgrade of Reston Town Center’s public spaces nearly finished (5311 views)
- New dine-in cinema in Reston Town Center to open later this year (2512 views)
- Poll: Are you ‘all in’ on a potential Fairfax County casino? (1998 views)
- Vienna poised to reduce pickleball availability at Glyndon Park due to noise complaints (1701 views)
- Comstock seeks to tweak residential building planned at Reston Row (1567 views)
- Tractor-trailer crash spills sewage at Springfield Mixing Bowl, creating backups (1471 views)
- Construction of condos on former school site in Fairfax City complete (1298 views)
- County settles on land for future arts center in Reston (1239 views)
- Pottery Barn now under construction at the Mosaic District (1229 views)
- After deadly crash, county to study lighting, cost of removing hills on Lee Chapel Road (1191 views)
- Fairfax County’s lone remaining taxi operator requests easing of rules that ‘age out’ vehicles (1120 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday in Fairfax County, from our event calendar.
- 9:00 am: Reston Summer Camp Expo
- 9:00 am: Wall Framing 101
- 4:00 pm: Jazz Cafe w/ Cityline
- 7:00 pm: Where Our Roots Meet
And here are the events planned for Sunday:
⛅ Saturday’s forecast
Partly cloudy throughout the day. High of 50 and low of 34. Sunrise at 7:20 am and sunset at 5:26 pm. See more from Weather.gov.
🌅 Tonight’s sunset
We hope you have a great weekend! Feel free to discuss the most-read stories of the week, the upcoming weekend events or anything else of local interest in the comments. 👋
Recent Stories
Good Friday evening, Fairfax County. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar. đź•— News recap The following articles were published earlier…
For this year’s Independent Bookstore Day, local bookworms will be encouraged to collect not just new literary titles, but also places to buy them. More than a dozen shops across…
The Oakton driver behind a 2022 crash that killed two teenagers has been sentenced to four years in prison. Earlier this week, 20-year-old Usman Shahid was convicted of two counts of…
RELAC Water Cooling will begin delivering air-conditioning services to residents and businesses in Reston’s Lake Anne area this weekend — ahead of its official launch date of May 22. The…
The Gillion Academy’s Home School Basketball Program begins Fall 2024 for 7th – 12th Grade student-athletes to complete their online academic studies in a supervised and focused setting while receiving elite training from our professional basketball trainers at The Gillion Basketball Academy, a state of the art training facility in Springfield, Va. We have developed over 200 college athletes and placed over 50 players in the NBA and pro leagues overseas and provide the same level of training for our student-athletes.
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Pedal with Petals Family Bike Ride
Join us on Saturday, May 11th and ride into spring during our Pedal with Petals Family Bike Ride. Back for its second year, Pedal with Petals is going to be bigger than ever. This year’s event will include both an
Encore Creativity for Older Adults at Capital One Hall
Encore Creativity for Older Adults is pleased to raise the curtain and welcome community members to its spring concert at Capital One Hall in Tysons, VA on May 4, 2024. The concert, which starts at 3 PM, will bring hundreds
