
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 27, 2023.
- 8:15 am: Morning Notes | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:30 am: FCPD: Lorton man threatened dog and its walker, led police on DUI chase | 🗣️ Comments
- 10:15 am: Repurposing of Tysons office building for live-work units approved | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:00 am: County board approves plan for homes near historic area of Lake Fairfax Park | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:45 am: County board OKs housing in Annandale’s Eastgate Shopping Center | 🗣️ Comments
- 1:30 pm: McLean Central Park playground upgrade nears funding goal with approved grant | 🗣️ Comments
- 2:30 pm: Chocolate factory to open in Reston next year | 🗣️ Comments
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- Tallest residential building in D.C. area tops out at Reston Town Center (15503 views)
- Mixed-use development that will break up McLean ‘superblock’ advances (10038 views)
- McLean woman killed in head-on car crash on I-495 (9584 views)
- Proposal seeks to boost visibility, presence of Reston’s North Point Village Center (4464 views)
- Pedestrian hospitalized after crash outside Spectrum at Reston Town Center (4296 views)
- Judge disqualifies Franconia District school board candidate over ballot paperwork (4126 views)
- Alcorn seeks answers on Comstock’s reported plans for a Reston casino (3598 views)
- Police: Child shot in Lincolnia, suspects seen driving away (3557 views)
- Vienna pushes developer to clean up idle site of demolished Wolf Trap Hotel (3478 views)
- More FCPS students expected to walk out in support of Palestinians (3469 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday throughout the county, from our event calendar.
- 10:00 am: UCP Seventh Annual Fall Art and Craft Fair
- 10:30 am: The Worlds Religions
- 11:00 am: Celebrate Diwali!
- 1:30 pm: Makers Union Reston’s Hallo-Queen Drag Brunch
- 4:00 pm: Makers Union Reston’s Hallo-Queen Drag Brunch
- 7:00 pm: Spooktacular Ca-boo-ret
- 8:00 pm: Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra with Christian McBride
- 10:30 pm: Makers Union Reston’s Hallo-Queen Drag Brunch
- 11:00 pm: Bricks by the Lake
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
- 12:00 pm: Trick or Treat on Market Street
- 1:00 pm: “Souls to the Polls” March
- 3:00 pm: Burke Historical Society Meeting
- 6:00 pm: ICNA Council for Social Justice Annual Banquet
- 7:00 pm: Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Power and Passion of Beethoven
☀️ Saturday’s forecast
Expect sunny skies and a high around 82 degrees, accompanied by a west wind blowing at 5 to 9 mph. Saturday night brings isolated showers between 1 am and 2 am, turning mostly cloudy with a low temperature near 60 degrees. The northwest wind of 5 to 7 mph will shift to a northeastern direction after midnight, with a 20% chance of precipitation. See more from Weather.gov.
🌅 Tonight’s sunset
We hope you have a great weekend, Arlington! Feel free to discuss the most-read stories of the week, the upcoming weekend events or anything else of local interest in the comments. 👋
