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

Italian gelato maker opens second U.S. shop in Fair Oaks Mall

By Angela Woolsey
D'Ambrosio Gelato is now open in Fair Oaks Mall (photo by Vivian Hoang)

A new gelato stall has arrived at Fair Oaks Mall, just in time to offer sweet relief during the final days of summer.

D’Ambrosio Gelato opened for business on Aug. 16. It’s located on the first floor outside the Apple store at 11750 Fair Oaks Mall and sells both milk-based and vegan options as well as coffee.

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UPDATE: Man arrested after barricading with woman in Fair Oaks area townhome

By Angela Woolsey
Fairfax County police car with lights on (file photo)

(Updated at 11:30 a.m.) A man was arrested at 10 p.m. last night after he barricaded himself and a woman in a home in Fair Oaks, prompting a police response.

Officers were currently on the scene in the 4100 block of Park Chase Drive, which is the Parkside at Fairfax Corner community yesterday afternoon and into the night.

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Fairfax City’s first-ever for-sale affordable housing units open to residents

By Angela Woolsey
Restidents have started to move into the five townhouses designated as affordable dwelling units in Fairfax City's new Sutton Heights development (courtesy EYA)

Fairfax City’s first for-sale affordable dwelling units have officially become homes.

Residents have started moving into the designated units in the new Sutton Heights townhouse community at 3500 Pickett Road, developer EYA and the City of Fairfax announced today (Tuesday).

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New independent bookshop will open doors in McLean this fall

By Angela Woolsey
Fonts Books & Gifts logo (via Fonts Books & Gifts)

McLean is getting its own independent bookstore, filling a geographical gap in between Vienna’s Bards Alley and One More Page Books in Arlington.

In fact, Fonts Books & Gifts owner Amber Taylor prepared to launch her own business by working as a bookseller and events manager at One More Page.

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Fairfax County’s speed camera pilot hits bump due to malfunctioning flashing lights

By Angela Woolsey
A speed camera on Kirby Road outside Chesterbrook Elementary School (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Some broken lights have unexpected challenges for Fairfax County’s speed camera pilot program, which appears to be having an effect on drivers, based on early data.

For about a week in mid-July, the Winko-Matics — flashing lights that signal when a school zone is in effect — failed to turn on at three of the eight sites involved in the pilot, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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NEW: Man arrested after three shot outside Merrifield taco restaurant

By Angela Woolsey
Three people were shot outside Taco Baja in Merrifield on Aug. 26 (via Google Maps)

(Updated at 9:55 a.m.) A man from Falls Church has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun into a crowd outside Taco Baja (7716 Lee Highway) in Merrifield.

Police say their investigation indicates that  Jorge Armando Melendez Gonzalez, 25, approached a group of men standing outside the restaurant early in the morning on Saturday (Aug. 26).

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Two more teens charged with Memorial Day homicides in Idylwood

By Angela Woolsey
Tysons View Apartments (via Google Maps)

Four people — all teenagers — now face charges in connection to a fatal stabbing and shooting at the Tysons View Apartments in Idylwood on Memorial Day (May 29).

The Fairfax County Police Department announced today (Monday) that detectives have arrested a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old man from Falls Church as well as an 18-year-old from Vienna as suspects in the double homicide, which left 20-year-old Ashburn resident Jonas Skinner and 18-year-old Braden Deahl from Arlington County dead.

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FCPD: Man arrested for rape in Kingstowne townhome

By Angela Woolsey
Fairfax County police vehicle (file photo)

A Kingstowne man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman he met online at a townhome in the Manchester Crossing neighborhood.

Fairfax County police officers were called to the 6000 block of Alexander Avenue around 5 a.m. today (Monday) after getting a report of an adult woman who had been raped and “maliciously assaulted,” the department said in a news release.

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Vienna’s revised zoning code gets planning commission support, but parking concerns loom

By Angela Woolsey
The Danor Plaza parking lot in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Vienna’s proposed new zoning code got a critical vote of confidence last week.

At its meeting on Wednesday (Aug. 23), the Vienna Planning Commission unanimously approved a letter to the town council recommending that it adopt the latest draft of a document three years in the making, one that will guide everything from development on Maple Avenue to the amount of space a backyard deck can occupy for the foreseeable future.

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SCOOP: District Taco will close Tysons West restaurant this fall

By Angela Woolsey
District Taco has been in Tysons West since 2017 (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

(Updated at 1:15 p.m.) District Taco is wrapping up its time at Tysons West.

The last day of business for the Mexican street food chain’s Tysons location will come on Oct. 1, the company’s chief operating officer, Chris Medhurst, confirmed to FFXnow.

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