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 — Jan 19, 2024.
- 8:15 am: Morning Notes | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:30 am: Police charge teen with murder after fatal stabbing in Annandale | 🗣️ Comments
- 10:15 am: Snow closes Fairfax County government, delaying start of early voting | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:00 am: Affordable housing developer jumpstarts initiative to clean up Tysons’ green spaces | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:45 am: Cinnamon roll shop opening next month in Village Centre at Dulles | 🗣️ Comments
- 1:30 pm: Fairfax County’s state lawmakers file bills on rent gouging, speed cameras and more | 🗣️ Comments
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
- Herndon’s Elden Street Tea Shop to relocate to Reston (10342 views)
- NEW: Fairfax County casino push targets abandoned Tysons auto dealership (8319 views)
- Report: New state legislation would allow casino in Tysons, but not Reston (7368 views)
- Fairfax County seeks input on future of development in Centreville (5578 views)
- Teacher from Texas arrested after sexually soliciting ‘juvenile’ in Fairfax County (4088 views)
- Family seeks support after pedestrian crash in Herndon critically injures son, mother (3342 views)
- JUST IN: FCPS calls off classes on Tuesday, Fairfax Connector reduces service due to snow (3062 views)
- To increase housing, Fairfax County pursues alternatives to ending single-family-only zoning (2778 views)
- Woman reportedy shot in Annandale apartment complex (2471 views)
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Saturday throughout the county, from our event calendar.
- 11:00 am: Make a Custom Spinner Ring
- 12:00 pm: Family Day!
- 1:00 pm: Blacksmithing 101 Safety Sign-off
- 2:00 pm: The Secrets of The Healthy Cook
- 8:00 pm: Murder on the Orient Express
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
- 2:00 pm: Murder on the Orient Express
- 2:00 pm: Talk with local author Burt Solomon
☀️ Saturday’s forecast
Expect mostly sunny skies and a high of 24 degrees, accompanied by a northwest wind blowing at 11 to 18 mph and gusts reaching up to 33 mph. As for Saturday night, the sky will be mostly clear with a low temperature of around 17 degrees, and a northwest wind blowing at around 16 mph, gusting up to 28 mph. 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. 👋
