Author: Angela Woolsey

Angela Woolsey is the site editor for FFXnow. A graduate of George Mason University, she worked as a general assignment reporter for the Fairfax County Times before joining Local News Now as the Tysons Reporter editor in 2020.

Around Town

Call Your Mother now open at Reston’s North Point Village Center

By Angela Woolsey
Call Your Mother at North Point Village Center in Reston (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Call Your Mother is now serving up bagels and babka to Reston customers.

After a soft opening limited to friends, family and other invited guests yesterday (Wednesday), the rapidly growing regional chain officially launched its newest location at North Point Village Center this morning (Thursday).

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Onelife Fitness building in Tysons could be redeveloped with high-rise housing

By Angela Woolsey
Developer Paradigm Companies has proposed replacing the Onelife Fitness building at 8250 Greensboro Drive in Tysons with two residential high-rises (via Fairfax County)

Onelife Fitness might morph into the next residential development in Tysons.

The Arlington-based developer Paradigm Companies recently submitted a rezoning application to Fairfax County proposing to replace the gym’s low-lying building at 8250 Greensboro Drive with a pair of residential high-rises.

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Herndon turns up pressure on Comstock to give back downtown redevelopment site

By Angela Woolsey
The site for Comstock's downtown Herndon redevelopment project (via Town of Herndon)

A potential legal battle is brewing over the stalled project to revitalize Herndon’s downtown.

The Town of Herndon filed a declaration in Fairfax County Circuit Court last Friday (Feb. 28) terminating Comstock Companies’ rights to the nearly 5-acre block at the northeast corner of Center and Elden streets that the developer had planned to turn into an arts center, apartments, retail space and a parking garage.

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Our Mom Eugenia unveils expanded space at the Mosaic District

By Angela Woolsey
Our Mom Eugenia has added a new dining room at the Mosaic District (courtesy Our Mom Eugenia)

Our Mom Eugenia’s Merrifield expansion is complete.

The family-owned Greek restaurant announced last week that its new, private dining room and outdoor patio at the Mosaic District (2985 District Avenue, Suite 185) are now available for reservations.

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Cocaine delivery service leads to federal prison sentence for Reston man

By Angela Woolsey
The George Gordon Meade Memorial Statue outside the federal courthouse for the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court House in D.C. (via Google Maps)

A Reston man’s days of delivering cocaine in D.C. appear to be at an end.

Dusan Dimic, 41, was sentenced last week to 41 months — or three years and five months — in federal prison for driving rental and rideshare vehicles as part of a drug trafficking operation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C.

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Fired FAA worker from Fairfax to attend Trump address to Congress with Sen. Kaine

By Angela Woolsey
Sen. Tim Kaine speaks with Higher Horizons staff about federal funding for Head Start programs (staff photo by James Jarvis)

A Fairfax resident who served in the U.S. Army and was recently let go by the Federal Aviation Administration job as part of the current White House’s push to drastically downsize the federal government will attend President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine announced yesterday that he has invited Jason King as his guest for Trump’s first speech to Congress since the president returned to office for a second term on Jan. 20.

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Immigrant advocates decry order for Virginia State Police, local jails to assist ICE

By Angela Woolsey
Inside the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

After seeking to pressure localities to work with federal immigration authorities by proposing to withhold funding, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is now directly ordering state police and local jails to cooperate.

Youngkin signed an executive order last Thursday (Feb. 27) directing the Virginia State Police to sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that would create a task force with deputized troopers who can help identify and arrest undocumented individuals “who pose a risk to public safety.”

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Herndon man charged with DWI for crash that killed teen

By Angela Woolsey
Looking south in the 5600 block of Pleasant Valley Road in Centreville (via Google Maps)

A crash in Centreville that killed a teenager last Thursday (Feb. 27) was the result of a drunk driver, Fairfax County police say.

Officers responded at 10:28 p.m. that night to the 5600 block of Pleasant Valley Road for the two-vehicle crash.

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BREAKING: Former FCPD officer sentenced to jail for fatal Tysons shooting

By Angela Woolsey
Fairfax County Courthouse (file photo)

The former Fairfax County police officer who fatally shot Timothy McCree Johnson outside Tysons Corner Center in February 2023 has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy Bellows sentenced former sergeant Wesley Shifflett to five years of incarceration today (Friday) with two years suspended, the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office announced.

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FCPD charges teens seen displaying gun at elementary school

By Angela Woolsey
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School in Woodlawn (via Google Maps)

Two teenagers are facing criminal charges after reportedly brandishing a gun at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School in Woodlawn yesterday (Thursday).

Officers responded to the school at 4015 Fielding Street at 2:53 p.m. after “several” students reported seeing two men on the property, one of whom displayed a gun, the Fairfax County Police Department says.

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