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Donut shop under construction in Vienna

Published July 15, 2025 at 2:45PM | Updated July 15, 2025 at 4:02PM

The forthcoming Texas Donuts in Vienna (staff photo by Jared Serre)

A popular Northern Virginia donut chain will soon open in Vienna.

Minor renovations are underway on the forthcoming Texas Donuts at 167 Glyndon Street SE in the Glyndon Plaza shopping center. Signage recently posted across the storefront announces that the business is “coming soon,” though employees at another location didn’t know about a possible opening date.

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Cold Stone Creamery is now scooping in Fairfax City

By Jared Serre

Published July 15, 2025 at 8:30AM

Cold Stone Creamery in Fairfax City (staff photo by Jared Serre)

Cold Stone Creamery is serving scoops in Fairfax City.

The ice cream chain opened a new location earlier this year at 9548-C Main Street in Turnpike Shopping Center, taking over the former home of Flippin’ Pizza.

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Walkinshaw, Fairfax Democrats blast GOP-passed ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

By Jared Serre

Published July 14, 2025 at 2:45PM

Clockwise from top left: budget anlyst Andy Pavord, Braddock Supervisor James Walkinshaw, Sen. Saddam Salim, Del. Vivian Watts

Fairfax County Democrats are going on the offensive over the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” calling the legislation a “betrayal” that will hurt Virginians.

Speaking last Thursday (July 10) at a virtual roundtable, three local lawmakers took aim at the nearly 1,000-page budget reconciliation bill, which was signed into law on July 4.

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Maryland man who punched Dulles Airport gate agent pleads guilty

By Jared Serre

Published July 10, 2025 at 3:45PM

The Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse in Alexandria (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A Maryland man who struck and knocked unconscious a gate agent at Dulles International Airport earlier this year pleaded guilty today (Thursday) to interfering with security screening personnel.

Christopher Stuart Crittenden faces a maximum of 10 years for the crime, though federal prosecutors will recommend a sentence no greater than the low end of sentencing guidelines, according to the terms of a plea agreement.

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Burke elementary school teacher loses license over child assault cases

By Jared Serre

Published July 10, 2025 at 2:45PM

White Oaks Elementary School in Burke (via Google Maps)

A former teacher at White Oaks Elementary School in Burke will surrender her teaching license amid accusations that she physically assaulted students at the school.

Elizabeth Yoshimi Nagagata, who previously worked as a special education teacher at the school, entered an Alford plea on June 18 to two misdemeanor counts of assault & battery, allowing her to plead guilty while maintaining her innocence.

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JUST IN: New Whole Foods in Reston to open next month

By Jared Serre

Published July 9, 2025 at 3:45PM

Whole Foods Market is opening a new store in Spectrum at Reston Town Center (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Reston’s new-and-improved Whole Foods Market is expected to open next month.

After months of construction, the new grocery store is scheduled to open in the Spectrum at Reston Town Center on Aug. 6 at 8 a.m., the company announced today (Wednesday). It’s located at 1861 Fountain Drive where Best Buy once stood.

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Ace Hardware eyes fall opening in Vienna strip mall

By Jared Serre

Published July 9, 2025 at 2:45PM

Ace Hardware coming soon to Cedar Park Shopping Center in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Vienna’s Cedar Park Shopping Center will welcome a hardware store later this year.

Signage for the forthcoming Ace Hardware has begun to appear outside 264 Cedar Lane SE, which formerly housed CVS Pharmacy until April of this year.

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Man suspected in decades-old sexual assaults pleads guilty, faces 10 years

By Jared Serre

Published July 9, 2025 at 8:30AM

Police say they have connected Edward Eugene Pottmyer, 58, of Chantilly to two sexual assaults and an exposure case (courtesy FCPD)

A Chantilly man could serve 10 years in prison after admitting to his involvement in three cold cases that date back to the late 1990s.

Edward Eugene Pottmyer, 58, pleaded guilty earlier this month (July 2) to one count of aggravated sexual battery and one count of abduction, both stemming from a 1998 incident on a Fair Lakes bicycle path, according to court records.

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Fair Oaks man charged with wife’s murder dies before trial

By Jared Serre

Published July 8, 2025 at 8:30AM | Updated July 8, 2025 at 9:33PM

Behruze Dorbayan has been charged with second-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his wife (via FCPD)

A 78-year-old man from Fair Oaks who killed his wife after she admitted to having an affair has died before the case was adjudicated.

Behruze Dorbayan died June 17 — nearly a year after telling police that he stabbed his wife of 50 years inside their home in the 3900 block of Highland Oaks Drive.

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School board veteran eyes Walkinshaw’s Fairfax County board seat

By Jared Serre

Published July 7, 2025 at 3:45PM | Updated July 21, 2025 at 11:30AM

Fairfax County School Board at-large member Ilryong Moon (screenshot via FCPS/YouTube)

With the odds in favor of Braddock District Supervisor James Walkinshaw moving on to Congress, the race to replace him on the Board of Supervisors has quietly kicked off.

Ilryong Moon, a veteran of the Fairfax County School Board, intends to pursue the Braddock Supervisor position if Walkinshaw wins election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Moon confirmed to FFXnow.