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FFXnow Daily Debrief for May 5, 2023

Good Friday evening! Today we published 4 articles that were read a total of 3834 times on FFXnow alone, so far.

📈 Top stories

The following are the most-read articles for today (May 5, 2023)…

  1. Call Your Mother’s mini mobile deli is now open in McLean
  2. Morning Notes
  3. Early voting for Democratic primary begins with a slew of local races on the ballot

Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.

  1. Pizza restaurant Mellow Mushroom withers away in Herndon (26589 views)
  2. Report: Ikea to open new ‘urban format’ store in Fairfax Corner (16135 views)
  3. Group protesting Bangladesh prime minister shuts down Tysons Blvd (6738 views)
  4. Barnes & Noble announces opening date for Reston location (6553 views)
  5. For first time, Cirque du Soleil selects Tysons for U.S. debut of new show (5441 views)
  6. Fairfax County offers to split the bill for private stormwater projects (2826 views)
  7. New Lebanese restaurant to take over former Chopt space in Vienna (2479 views)
  8. JUST IN: Police officer injured in crash on Fairfax County Parkway (1824 views)
  9. Haulin’ Trash bankruptcy leaves many county residents out of luck getting refunds (1659 views)

📅 Upcoming events

Here is what’s going on Saturday in Fairfax County, from our event calendar.

Here are the events planned for Sunday:

⛅ Saturday’s forecast

Increasing cloudiness. Mild. High of 73 and low of 57. Sunrise at 6:05 am and sunset at 8:06 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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  • FFXnow is the definitive local news source for Fairfax County, featuring countywide coverage and hyperlocal reporting on the Reston and Tysons areas. This article was written by an editor or other member of FFXnow's full-time staff.