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.

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JUST IN: Union workers to rally in support of possible Tysons casino

By Angela Woolsey
State Sen. Dave Marsden (D-35) presents his bill to make Fairfax County eligible for a casino to the Senate's gaming subcommittee on Jan. 24, 2024 with union workers in attendance (via Virginia Senate livestream)

A battle is brewing once again over the prospect of a casino in Fairfax County.

As opponents continue to organize, including under a No Fairfax Casino Coalition that mostly consists of homeowners’ and citizen associations, several labor unions have now come out in support of the casino and entertainment district envisioned in Tysons by the developer Comstock Companies.

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Vienna woman runs marathons in all 50 states, achieving longtime goal

By Angela Woolsey
Pam Piligian and her husband hold up moose antlers after finishing the Jackson Hole Marathon, their last in a quest to run marathons in all 50 states (courtesy Pam Piligan)

Pam Piligan’s journey to completing marathons in all 50 U.S. states was itself a marathon, spanning two decades and countless hours of training, traveling and running.

All that work paid off when the Vienna resident crossed the finish line at the base of the majestic Teton Mountain Range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Saturday, Sept. 28, allowing her to fill in one final state on her home map of Navy Federal Credit Union’s branches.

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Springfield driver charged with manslaughter for crash that killed motorcyclist

By Angela Woolsey
Rolling Road at Delong Drive in Newington (via Google Maps)

A Springfield man was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a motorcyclist in May.

According to the Fairfax County Police Department, detectives determined that Michael Burghardt, 46, was driving a 2022 BMW M440i north in the southbound lanes of Rolling Road when he hit a southbound motorcyclist near Delong Drive in Newington on May 12.

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Man charged with firing gun at Woodlawn Shopping Center

By Angela Woolsey
Woodlawn Shopping Center (via Google Maps)

An apparent dispute between a customer and the employees of a nightclub in Woodlawn took a dangerous turn last weekend, police say.

Officers were dispatched to Club One in Woodlawn Shopping Center (8786 Richmond Highway) at 12:58 a.m. on Sunday (Oct. 13) after a caller reported a man brandishing a gun, according to the police scanner.

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Tysons Corner Center loses 7-Eleven, gains Asian tea chain

By Angela Woolsey
Istanbul Kitchen is relocating within Tysons Corner Center to the former 7-Eleven spot (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

The convenience store chain 7-Eleven will be slightly less ubiquitous by the end of 2024.

The store inside Tysons Corner Center closed permanently on Sept. 23, a mall spokesperson recently confirmed to FFXnow. More closures may be coming in the weeks ahead, as 7-Eleven plans to shutter 444 “underperforming” locations across North America.

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Vienna’s biggest employer offers to fund aquatics facility design

By Angela Woolsey
A rendering showing the view of Vienna's potential aquatics and fitness center from Center Street (via Kimmel Bogrette Architecture report)

Vienna’s plan to build a public aquatics and fitness center has already secured one major backer.

Navy Federal Credit Union — the town’s largest employer with 5,100 people working at its corporate headquarters (820 Follin Lane) — has offered to provide funding for the facility’s design, the Town of Vienna announced last Thursday (Oct. 10).

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Fairfax County to open more early voting sites tomorrow

By Angela Woolsey
A flyer at Great Falls Library announces that it will be an early voting site starting Thursday, Oct. 17 (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Fairfax County voters will soon have more options for casting their ballot ahead of the Nov. 5 general election.

The county is set to open 13 more in-person early voting sites tomorrow (Thursday), bringing the total number of sites up to 16. The Fairfax County, Mount Vernon and North County government centers have been available since Sept. 20.

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County plan to take McLean house for wastewater station surprises residents

By Angela Woolsey
Fairfax County is seeking to acquire a parcel at 1310 Scotts Run in McLean for its planned Tysons East wastewater pump station (via Fairfax County)

A project to build a wastewater pump station project for McLean and eastern Tysons got off to an inauspicious start last week when a lack of community outreach forced the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to postpone a scheduled public hearing.

The board authorized the hearing in September to get testimony on whether the county should exercise its eminent domain powers to acquire the land rights to a residential property at 1310 Scotts Run Road in McLean — the site chosen for the future pump station.

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Pedestrian dies weeks after crash in Seven Corners

By Angela Woolsey
Southbound Patrick Henry Drive at Arlington Blvd in Seven Corners (via Google Maps)

Fairfax County police are investigating a late September crash in Seven Corners that turned fatal this weekend.

Glen Simmons, 57, died on Sunday (Oct. 13) — almost three weeks after he was struck by a driver while walking on Patrick Henry Drive shortly before 8 p.m. on Sept. 25, the Fairfax County Police Department announced yesterday (Monday).

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Langley HS employee arrested for ‘obscene sexual display,’ police say

By Angela Woolsey
The entrance to Langley High School in McLean (via Google Maps)

An instructional assistant at Langley High School in McLean was arrested last week after a student allegedly saw him masturbating in a classroom.

During school hours on Friday (Oct. 11), David Scalea, a 40-year-old resident of Great Falls, “began inappropriately touching himself underneath his desk” in a classroom, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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