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. 👋
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Woofie’s will have about 20 mobile spa vans on site, offering free nail trims and Wash ‘n Go baths for rescued dogs and pups up for adoption, and special event pricing for families who bring their own pets for grooming (as time permits/allows).
Participating Woofie’s include Reston/Herndon, Ashburn-Leesburg, McLean, Western Loudoun, South Riding-Aldie and Fairfax. Food trucks, a DJ, local vendors, and more will be available. Ridgeside K9 and Keller Williams Realty are sponsoring the event.
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Sunday, May 19, 2024
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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
