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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NEW: Croissant bakery, tech-driven gym coming to Scotts Run in Tysons

By Angela Woolsey
Sunday Morning Bakehouse specializes in handmade croissants and other pastries (courtesy Sunday Morning Bakehouse)

A family-owned bakery from North Bethesda and a brand-new fitness studio are coming to one of the newest buildings in Tysons.

Heming developer Skanska announced today (Wednesday) that Sunday Morning Bakehouse and Apparati Wellness Studio will both open locations in the mixed-use apartment building at 1800 Chain Bridge Road.

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Reston’s Lake Thoreau pool to celebrate grand reopening with free snow cones

By Angela Woolsey
The newly renovated Lake Thoreau swimming pool in Reston (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Reston will usher in Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer by celebrating the grand reopening of Lake Thoreau pool.

The swimming pool at 2040 Upper Lake Drive will welcome its first patrons since closing in 2020 for renovations with a party this Friday (May 24) from 4-7 p.m.

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Here’s who won the 2024 McLean Community Center board elections

By Angela Woolsey
A sign for the McLean Community Center (file photo)

The results are in for the McLean Community Center’s 2024 governing board elections.

A total of 1,237 residents of the tax district that funds the community center cast ballots during last week’s McLean Day festival and more than a month of absentee voting to determine the new occupants of six board seats — four for adults and two for youth.

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Fairfax man fatally shot during gas station argument, police say

By Angela Woolsey
The Citgo gas station at 6241 Richmond Highway in Belle Haven (via Google Maps)

A 38-year-old man from Fairfax was killed in a shooting yesterday (Tuesday) at a gas station on Richmond Highway in Belle Haven, police say.

Officers found Arthur Edward Mann II suffering from a gunshot wound at the Citgo (6241 Richmond Highway) in the Fair Haven neighborhood around 6:07 a.m., according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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Vienna business round-up: What’s replacing Noodles & Company, no more Yellow Diner

By Angela Woolsey
Permits for Citibank have been posted in the windows of Vienna's former Noodles & Company at 201 Maple Avenue East (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

The Town of Vienna appears to be getting another bank.

Noodles & Company’s long-standing restaurant in the Vienna Marketplace shopping center (201 Maple Avenue East) is slated to be converted into a Citibank, according to Fairfax County permits.

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Free concerts and outdoor movies coming to Reston this summer

By Angela Woolsey
This summer's "Summerbration Fab Fridays" series at Reston Station will conclude with a silent dance party (courtesy Reston Community Center)

Reston has a busy summer of music and movies ahead that will include the revival of a dormant Lake Anne Plaza tradition, an expanded entertainment line-up at Reston Station, and the addition of the area’s newest neighborhood.

Halley Rise, which remains under construction, will host the Reston Community Center’s long-running “Take a Break” series — one of six planned for sites around Reston this year — outside The Edmund apartment building (2025 Fulton Place).

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West Falls Church music venue up for poll on D.C. area’s best dive bar

By Angela Woolsey
JV's Restaurant at the Jefferson Village Shopping Center in West Falls Church (via Google Maps)

The Washington Post is surveying its readers to find the best dive bar in the D.C. area, and the only Virginia establishment to make the final vote can be found in Fairfax County.

JV’s Restaurant in West Falls Church (6666 Arlington Blvd) is one of 12 finalists competing in the informal poll. Mostly located in D.C., the finalists rose to the top out of “dozens” of contenders submitted by “hundreds” of readers after the Post asked for favorite dive bars in March.

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Police seek information on N. Va. cheerleading businessman charged with child porn

By Angela Woolsey
Jason Fragale, 38, of Leesburg and Kissimmee, Florida, faces 10 felony child porn charges (courtesy Florida Department of Law Enforcement)

Investigators have put out a call for additional information on a child pornography case involving a Leesburg man who ran a cheerleading business based in Reston.

The Virginia State Police says it has learned that, in addition to running The Crimson All-Star Cheerleading Club, Jason R. Fragale, 38, presented himself as a coach for USA Cheer and a “modeling” recruiter to young girls. During that period in late 2022 and spring 2023, he went by the alias “Jason Mariani.”

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Men indicted in Marriott hotel and Burke Lake Park murder cases

By Angela Woolsey
The entrance to the Marriott hotel at 3111 Fairview Park Drive (via Google Maps)

Men arrested last fall in connection to two separate killings were both indicted on murder charges by grand juries today (Monday), the Office of the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney has announced.

Rami El-Sayed, a 34-year-old Vienna resident, per court records, faces a second-degree murder charge for allegedly killing Cara Abbruscato, a 40-year-old Fairfax resident who was found dead in Burke Lake Park’s campgrounds on Sept. 30, 2023.

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Tysons condo project survives grilling over developer’s workforce housing pledge

By Angela Woolsey
Developers Cityline Partners and Renaissance Centro have proposed a condominium building in place of offices for Block C2 of Arbor Row in Tysons (via Fairfax County)

Developer Cityline Partners got its plan to swap an office building for condominiums in Tysons’ Arbor Row neighborhood past the Fairfax County Planning Commission last week, but concerns about its affordable housing commitments remain a hurdle.

The commission voted 8-1 last Wednesday (May 15) to recommend approval of a 23-story, 240-unit residential high-rise at 7925 Westpark Drive. The lone “nay” came from Hunter Mill District Commissioner John Carter, while Mount Vernon District Commissioner Walter Clarke abstained after arriving late to the meeting.

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