By Brian Trompeter
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 23 approved a request by Supervisor Jimmy Bierman (D-Dranesville) to continue pressing Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) officials on concerns related to the Interstate 495 Express Lanes Northern Extension (495 NEXT) Project
By Brian Trompeter
The Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) on Jan. 31 voted 5-0 to uphold the zoning administrator’s determination that a Great Falls group facility is a by-right use.
By Brian Trompeter
Call them Luddites, troglodytes, sticks-in-the-mud, old-fashioned or just plain stubborn: About 15 percent of Americans still write paper checks to pay for bills and purchases.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County supervisors on Jan. 23 unanimously approved a rezoning proposal to build two new houses on an Oakton property and save a century-old vernacular style home there.
By Brian Trompeter
From decades of helping organizations either get back on the right track or work collaboratively with competitors toward a broader goal, Lisa Gable has garnered plenty of wisdom – and war stories.
The Fairfax County government’s AAA ratings for general-obligation debt have been affirmed by the nation’s three major bond-rating houses, which looked at the government’s financial condition ahead of a Jan. 24 sale of debt.
The county government successfully sold $350 million in bonds, designed to fund the following areas:
Defender has already moved and is training with her pro team
With standout high school and college soccer careers complete, now it’s on to the professional ranks for Julia Leas.
Fairfax County police recently arrested a D.C. man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a park in Lorton on New Year’s Day.
Police believe Mohannad Yousef Abura, 39, may have posed as a ride-share driver when he picked up the woman in Dupont Circle after midnight on Jan. 1, according to a news release published today.
(Updated at 1:30 p.m.) An 8-inch natural gas line was ruptured near Westfield High School this morning (Wednesday), forcing a closure of Willard Road in Chantilly.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue responders, including a hazmat team, were dispatched to the 14800 block of Willard Road around 10:26 a.m. for a “hazardous material emergency,” according to scanner traffic on Open MHz.
Centreville-based nonprofit Tender Hearts has donated over 100 Nepali-language children’s books to Fairfax County Public Libraries with the aim of connecting local Nepalese families and children to their cultural roots.
Prabha Bhattarai Deuja, founder and president of Tender Hearts, recently delivered the books to the Chantilly branch of Fairfax County Public Libraries, according to a news release.
