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After an eventful first few months in office, Herndon Mayor Keven LeBlanc is looking to get a pulse check on where the town is now and where it hopes to go in the future.

The mayor has invited residents to gather in the Herndon Town Council chambers at 765 Lynn Street tomorrow (Tuesday) for a town hall-style meeting titled “Our Herndon, Our Future: A Community Conversation.”


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Update — Joshua Obregon Pacheco was found dead Saturday morning (May 17), Fairfax City police announced.

“Please keep his family in your thoughts,” the City of Fairfax County Police Department said. “No foul play is suspected.”


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The storms passing through the D.C. area this evening (Friday) have claimed two lives as a result of trees falling on cars, police say.

Frye Road has been closed between Manor Drive and Pole Road in Woodlawn after a tree fell on a car, killing a woman, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.


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The speed limit on Fairfax County Parkway has been reduced and will soon be enforced by speed cameras, as construction to widen the major thoroughfare continues.

A speed limit of 45 mph — down from 50 mph — took effect today (Friday), with workers unveiling new signage throughout the work zone from I-66 near Fair Lakes to Route 123 (Ox Road) in Fairfax Station, according to Fairfax County.


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The Virginia Wine Festival is no longer coming to Tysons.

The festival informed ticket-holders overnight that its upcoming stay at Lerner Town Square (8025 Galleria Drive) on May 31 has been canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances,” one prospective attendee told FFXnow.


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Traffic will be limited to one lane on a portion of Walker Road in Great Falls this weekend.

Flaggers will direct traffic on the 0.2-mile stretch of road between Park Royal Drive and Walker Mill Road from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday (May 18), the Virginia Department of Transportation announced.


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As the Trump administration continues to gut the federal workforce and budget, a Reston contractor recently got an inadvertent head’s up that one of its research projects could be next on the chopping block.

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spreadsheet mistakenly emailed to grant recipients on April 30 listed over 150 projects to support child welfare that are apparently being considered for termination, including Child Care and Early Education Research Connections, the Associated Press reported.


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The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) is advising residents to be careful when storing lithium-ion batteries in the wake of a recent house fire.

Firefighters were dispatched to the 1500 block of Millikens Bend Road in the Dranesville area north of Herndon on Saturday, May 3 just before 7:30 p.m. for the reported fire, the FCFRD says.


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A Herndon man is facing multiple criminal charges after allegedly grabbing and kissing a child.

The victim reported on Monday (May 12) at 8:40 a.m. that she had been walking in the 13300 block of Hungerford Place in the Hutchison neighborhood near Herndon when a man approached her, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.


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A Fairfax man who allegedly exposed himself multiple times in Oakton and Chantilly over the past decade has been arrested.

The Fairfax County Police Department shared last month that detectives were investigating a series of indecent exposure incidents after receiving a report of an unidentified man exposing himself “to multiple victims” near the 4600 block of Stonecroft Road in Chantilly between 5 and 6 p.m. on March 30.


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