Good Friday evening! Today we published 8 articles that were read a total of 11263 times on FFXnow alone, so far.
📈 Top stories
The following are the most-read articles for today (Jul 21, 2023)…
- JUST IN: Gas leak shuts down Route 7 in Wolf Trap
- District Taco will open restaurants in McLean, Springfield next month
- Pisco y Nazca Ceviche Gastrobar to open in Reston next week
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- Tysons auto dealerships to close permanently, maybe setting stage for redevelopment (33978 views)
- Trader Joe’s confirms plan to relocate down the road in Springfield (28828 views)
- BREAKING: One killed in crash outside Burke shopping center (9266 views)
- NEW: Fairfax County might end leaf collection service, starting next year (6844 views)
- Driver dies after fiery two-vehicle crash in Fort Belvoir (6152 views)
- Man wins decades-long battle to get FCPD to use community names, not postal addresses, in crime reports (5525 views)
- Fight breaks out at Italian restaurant in Vienna, drawing police (4159 views)
- New ‘virtual food hall’ brings cuisine from around the D.C. area to Tysons (3182 views)
- Ice Cream Jubilee to open in Reston Town Center next year (3144 views)
- All-you-can-eat Korean BBQ coming to Merrifield from Centreville’s Meat Project (2965 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday in Fairfax County, from our event calendar.
- 8:00 pm: Jurassic Park in Concert
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
- 2:00 pm: Gounod’s Faust
- 7:30 pm: Nickel Creek
☀️ Saturday’s forecast
The weather forecast for Saturday is mostly sunny with a high of approximately 86 degrees and a northwestern wind at around 7 mph. On Saturday night, expect mostly clear skies and a low around 66 degrees. A north wind around 6 mph will become calm in the evening. 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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