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 — Oct 4, 2024.
- 7:30 am: Morning Notes for October 4, 2024 | 🗣️ Comments
- 8:15 am: Vienna proposes temporary meals tax hike to fund pool and fitness center | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:00 am: More apartments, less office space could be net plus for Fairfax tax coffers, report finds | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:45 am: Reston soccer club gets grant to fence fields at Lake Fairfax Park | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:15 am: Dunkin’ Donuts opens new cafe in Annandale | 🗣️ Comments
- 1:15 pm: Design brewing for Soapstone Connector with public meeting next week | 🗣️ Comments
- 2:00 pm: Former Army solider pleads guilty to killing West Springfield woman | 🗣️ Comments
- 6:15 pm: Langley golfers win eighth straight region championship | 🗣️ Comments
- 8:00 pm: BREAKING: Ex-FCPD officer found not guilty of manslaughter in fatal Tysons shooting | 🗣️ Comments
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- Raising Cane’s to open first Fairfax County restaurant this week (32087 views)
- Merrifield’s Pan Am Shopping Center has been renamed (19503 views)
- FCPS concerned by increase in ‘hoax’ threats on social media (4479 views)
- Construction breaks ground on Inova Franconia-Springfield Hospital (4316 views)
- Planning underway to redevelop former Booz Allen Hamilton office building in Herndon (3950 views)
- County officials toss in $500,000 to help ‘catalyst’ for McLean (3243 views)
- Greek restaurant Our Mom Eugenia to expand in Mosaic District (3202 views)
- Reston man arrested after alleged lottery ticket theft spree (2795 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday throughout the county, from our event calendar.
- 7:00 am: Arlington Civitans Open Air Flea Market
- 9:00 am: Oakton Fall Bazaar
- 9:00 am: Oakton 25th Fall Bazaar
- 9:00 am: McLean Community Shred Day
- 9:15 am: Viringia Housing Homebuying Seminar – Fairfax County
- 10:30 am: Historic House tours
- 12:00 pm: “Lasting Impressions” Art Exhibit
- 2:00 pm: NextStop Theater Benefit Performance for Herndon-Reston FISH
- 2:00 pm: Author talk: Henry Wise on “Holy City”
- 3:00 pm: Blessing Of Our Pets
- 8:30 pm: Gunsmoke & Cheap Perfume Band
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
- 👉 9:30 am: Miles for Migraine: Free 2 Mile Walk/5K Run/Relax
- 1:00 pm: Historic Little Library Museum Open
🌤️ Saturday’s forecast
Fog is expected to dissipate by 10am, followed by a mostly cloudy sky that will gradually become sunny. The high temperature will be around 76 degrees, accompanied by a north wind of 6 to 8 mph. The night will be clear with a low of 53 degrees and a lighter north wind of 3 to 6 mph. 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. 👋
