Good Friday evening, Fairfax County. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.
🕗 News recap
The following articles were published earlier today — Sep 27, 2024.
- 7:30 am: Morning Notes for September 27, 2024 | 🗣️ Comments
- 8:15 am: Zoom Room brings dedicated indoor dog training space to Springfield | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:00 am: New report finds hot spots for ‘near miss’ traffic incidents in Fairfax County | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:45 am: Dual-sport court scores opening in Reston park next week | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:15 am: McLean’s Clemyjontri Park faces week of repairs, starting Monday | 🗣️ Comments
- 1:15 pm: Woman accused of running Tysons, Merrifield brothels to plead guilty | 🗣️ Comments
- 3:00 pm: Report: Amazon to run planned data centers in Herndon area | 🗣️ Comments
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- Reston to welcome holidays with second annual Winterfest (9634 views)
- Kevin Bacon coming to Fairfax County for Washington West Film Festival (9317 views)
- Fairfax County wants your feedback on Lake Accotink’s future (9147 views)
- FBI raids Reston office of government contractor Carahsoft (8162 views)
- More than 200 townhomes could replace Herndon-area offices (7152 views)
- Three fatal pedestrian crashes under investigation by FCPD (6109 views)
- UPDATED: Dominion worker injured in transformer explosion at Mars HQ in McLean (5199 views)
- Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run on Richmond Highway, fourth fatality in a week (5091 views)
- JUST IN: Another person has died at Fairfax County’s jail (4687 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday throughout the county, from our event calendar.
- 8:00 am: Food for Others Tysons 5K & Fun Run
- 8:30 am: Reston Association’s 90-Family Community Yard Sale
- 9:00 am: Temple Hall Farm Pumpkin Patch & Sunflower Fields
- 2:00 pm: Saturday Family Fun
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
- 2:00 pm: SLHS PTSA Pantry Do It Your Way 0.5K
- 3:00 pm: Burke Historical Society Meeting
🌤️ Saturday’s forecast
Expect a gradual transition from mostly cloudy to sunny conditions today with temperatures reaching a comfortable high of around 82°F, accompanied by a mild south wind of around 7 mph. Moving into Saturday night, there is a slight possibility of showers as clouds increase and temperatures drop to a low of around 66°F. The east wind will blow gently at 3 to 5 mph, and the overall chance of precipitation is 20%. See more from Weather.gov.
🌅 Tonight’s sunset
The MonumentCam screenshot above is used with permission of the Trust for the National Mall and courtesy of EarthCam.
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. 👋
