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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Local ice cream shop honors Olympic athletes with limited-time sundaes

By Angela Woolsey
Toby's Homemade Ice Cream is offering limited-time Gold Medal Sundaes during the Paris Olympics (courtesy Toby's Homemade Ice Cream/Instagram)

With D.C.-area athletes riding high at this year’s Summer Games, Toby’s Homemade Ice Cream is serving up gold medal-themed scoops that probably taste sweeter than the real thing.

The Arlington and Vienna ice cream parlor unveiled a limited-time Gold Medal Sundae last Friday (Aug. 2) in honor of Arlingtonian swimmer Torri Huske, a Yorktown High School graduate who’s won five medals — three of them gold — at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Reston church donates school supplies to elementary students

By Angela Woolsey
Local high school student Bryce Merfeld donated 50 backpacks to Trinity Church Reston's school supply drive (courtesy Trinity Church Reston)

Hundreds of students at Reston’s Forest Edge Elementary School will head to class later this month with brand-new backpacks, thanks to a donation drive organized by a local church.

Congregants brought 240 backpacks filled with school supplies to the Trinity Church Reston campus (1950 Isaac Newton Square West) on Sunday (Aug. 4), according to campus pastor Robbie Hall, who thanked the donors for their generosity during the church’s 10 a.m. service.

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Park Authority seeks tenant to rehabilitate historic Tysons house

By Angela Woolsey
Inside the historic Ash Grove house in Tysons (via Fairfax County Park Authority/Flickr)

The clock is ticking on a chance to live in Tysons rent-free — if you’ll agree to restore and maintain the historic property.

The Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) is accepting applications until Aug. 24 at 5 p.m. for a resident curator for Ash Grove, one of the county’s few still-standing houses from the 18th century.

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NEW: Bonchon to revive Herndon and Annandale restaurants

By Angela Woolsey
Bonchon sells Korean fried chicken (courtesy Bonchon)

Bonchon Chicken is plotting a comeback in Herndon and Annandale.

The Korean fried chicken chain plans to reopen its Herndon location under different owners, and it has secured a new space in Annandale within the same shopping center where the business saw its previous restaurant destroyed by a fire.

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Chicago favorite boba tea cafe to open Merrifield location

By Angela Woolsey
The Chicago-based tea and dessert chain Te'Amo Boba Bar is coming soon to the Mosaic District (photo by Dan Lam)

A boba tea chain that has won over the Windy City now hopes to capture hearts in the D.C. area.

Chicago’s Te’Amo Boba Bar is venturing to the East Coast for the first time with a cafe at the Mosaic District in Merrifield, where it’ll open at 8190 Strawberry Lane, Suite 5, next to Pastry Xpo on the ground floor of the Vantage Apartments.

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Fairfax County task force deployed to help with Tropical Storm Debby

By Angela Woolsey
Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team with Virginia Task Force 1 (via VA-TF1/Twitter)

Virginia Task Force 1 is on its way to South Carolina.

The Fairfax County-based international urban search and rescue task force was deployed last night (Sunday) to assist with the emergency response to Tropical Storm Debby, which made landfall as a hurricane near Steinhatchee on the west coast of Florida around 7 a.m. this morning (Monday).

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Reston Midline takes shape with more residential development in the works

By Angela Woolsey
A vacant lot next to the completed Townhomes at Reston Station is slated for development as a 227-unit apartment building (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

More pieces of the Reston Midline development near the Wiehle Metro station are starting to fall into place.

Developer EYA hopes to begin construction on an apartment building within the next year after completing its Townhomes at Reston Station earlier this summer. All 113 townhouses were sold by August 2023, and they were officially delivered to buyers by June, EYA President and CEO McLean Quinn told FFXnow.

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Giant candle to pop up at Tysons Corner Center this weekend

By Angela Woolsey
Bath & Body Works is bringing a giant champagne toast-scented candle to Tysons Corner Center (courtesy Bath & Body Works)

A very tall, champagne-scented candle is going to light up Tysons Corner Center this weekend.

The 6.5-foot-tall wax column will be stationed on the mall’s first floor near Bath & Body Works from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 3-4), kicking off a tour of shopping centers and festivals in multiple cities across the U.S.

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Dual-sport court coming to Reston park with Volkswagen’s help

By Angela Woolsey
A futsal court similar in style to the proposed Stratton Woods Park facility (courtesy Fairfax County Park Authority)

Reston is getting a combined basketball and futsal court, but it’ll be at a different site than what the Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) previously proposed.

After seeking public input this spring on upgrades at South Lakes Drive Park, the park authority has teamed up with the Volkswagen Group of America and the Great Outdoor Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to recreational amenities, to instead build the dual-purpose court at Stratton Woods Park (2431 Fox Mill Road).

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Olympics update: McLean’s Claire Collins qualifies for rowing finals

By Angela Woolsey
The U.S. women's eight team wins a repechage at the Paris Olympics (courtesy row2k.com)

McLean rower Claire Collins has made it to the final round of the women’s eight event at the Paris Olympics.

Collins and the rest of the American women’s eight team will compete for a medal on Saturday (Aug. 3) after they won a repechage or trial heat this morning (Thursday), racing against four other teams at the Nautical Stadium-Flatwater in France.

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