Good Friday evening! Today we published 5 articles that were read a total of 5708 times on FFXnow alone, so far.
📈 Top stories
The following are the most-read articles for today (Apr 21, 2023)…
- Moms rally to raise $400,000 for new McLean Central Park playground
- Tephra Arts Festival returns to Reston Town Center next month
- McLean Big Buns and Matchbox set grand opening with free food samples
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- SCOOP: Whole Foods appears to be moving its Reston store (17072 views)
- DEVELOPING: Man stabbed in Sunoco parking lot near RTC West (13209 views)
- New restaurants at Seneca Corner in Great Falls to open by the summer (7868 views)
- New report shows population growth has stagnated in Fairfax County (6497 views)
- Developer resubmits plan for former Fannie Mae campus in Reston after previous approval voided (5563 views)
- Armed, masked carjacking suspects arrested after Richmond Highway chase (5050 views)
- IT company opens in downtown Herndon (4727 views)
- Woman found dead, apparently shot outside Inova Mount Vernon Hospital (3504 views)
- UPDATED: One person shot near Culmore, suspects seen fleeing (3476 views)
- Taste of Annandale festival returns next week after pandemic hiatus (2603 views)
- Retired from the CIA, Lisa Downing is now challenging for the county’s top elected position (2422 views)
- Tysons Corner Center adds Persian restaurant, plans pizza stall in food court (2277 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday in Fairfax County, from our event calendar.
- 10:00 am: Fairfax HisTree Day
- 1:00 pm: Author Brendan Slocumb Discusses “Symphony of Secrets”
- 7:00 pm: Get Inspired! Celebrating 5 Years of Kids Give Back
☔ Saturday’s forecast
Showery. Overcast. Mild. High of 72 and low of 0. Sunrise at 6:22 am and sunset at 7:52 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. 👋
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Charity Live Music Concert
Ukrainian Charity fundraiser concert at South County High School on June 13, 2023.
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