A man who helped murder a 14-year-old in Holmes Run Stream Valley Park nearly eight years ago will spend a quarter-century in prison for his role in the crime.
Edwin Orellana Caballero was sentenced yesterday (Wednesday) to 25 years in prison — the maximum possible sentence — by U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr., the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced.
GMU’s Sports Stadium Proposal Questioned — “Students and neighbors of George Mason University are rallying in opposition to a proposed facility for Washington’s newly formed professional cricket team…GMU said it also could be an opportunity to move its successful baseball team out of an aging field and share a 5,000-person stadium on west campus.” [NBC4]
Co-Founder of Longtime Merrifield Restaurant Dies — “Kim Lai, the immigrant businessman who helped transform a small family-run establishment into one of the most widely recognized Vietnamese restaurants in the D.C. area, died Feb. 16…Lai died from a head injury, several hours after suffering a fall at home in Fairfax,” said Le Lai, one of his daughters who ran Four Sisters from 2014 until it closed last year. [Washington Post]
By Brian Trompeter
The March 5 “Super Tuesday” presidential primaries will be hectic enough, so a tornado-preparedness event now will not be swirled into the mix.
Just under three in four Fairfax County residential properties saw a year-over-year increase in assessed value, according to data presented Feb. 20 by county officials.
The average assessment on residential property rose 2.9 percent to $744,526, with increases reported in all three segments of the real-estate market:
By Brian Trompeter
A proposed Tysons casino has been tabled until next year for further discussion in the General Assembly, but local civic activists on Feb. 20 reminded the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors of their adamant opposition to the gaming facility.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County households on average would pay about $524 more under the fiscal 2025 budget proposed Feb. 20 by County Executive Bryan Hill.
Add up the sales and prices, and Fairfax County’s home-sales volume for January was just shy of $400 million and down ever so slightly from a year before.
A total of 522 properties went to closing for the month, according to figures reported Feb. 12 by MarketStats by ShowingTime based on listing activity from Bright MLS.
By Brian Trompeter
It took two votes that failed by the same 4-3 margin, but the Vienna Town Council on Feb. 26 decided against proceeding with final-design work for a new sidewalk on Johnson Street, S.W.
As a strike against the Fairfax Connector bus service rolls on, the union representing workers wants to know why Fairfax County government leaders have not stepped in to try and resolve the dispute.
“Fairfax County officials have continued to remain silent and have refused to stand with workers and demand that their contractor bargain in good faith,” Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689 said in a Feb. 26 statement.
Nearly two years after updating its vision for the future of McLean Central Park, the Fairfax County Park Authority is ready to start work on some of the planned upgrades.
Imperio Construction, a Delaware-based company contracted by the park authority, began mobilizing on the site at 1468 Dolley Madison Blvd this week, and active construction is expected to start during the first week of March.
