The Fairfax County Democratic Committee will hold its once-every-two-years reorganization meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Oakton High School.
At the meeting, elections will be held for leadership posts. The filing deadline for those seeking positions is Dec. 27 at 5 p.m.
By Brian Trompeter
Faced with their last potential off-ramp for a joint project with Fairfax County to build a new Patrick Henry Library and an adjacent parking garage with some municipal-parking spaces, Vienna Town Council members kept their feet on the accelerator Dec. 4 and voted unanimously to forge ahead with the initiative.
Fairfax County’s unemployment rate held steady from September to October, part of a generally flat trend across the region as summer gave way to autumn.
With 646,247 counted in the civilian workforce and 17,181 looking for jobs, Fairfax’s unemployment rate was 2.6 percent in October, according to figures reported Nov. 30 by the Virginia Employment Commission.
By Brian Trompeter
Buoyed by narrow Democratic majorities in both General Assembly houses, two Vienna-area legislators hope the progressive bills they are drafting will pass and possibly meet with the Republican governor’s approval as well.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County taxpayers ponied up hundreds more dollars this year to finance higher county and school budgets, and based on information delivered Nov. 28 to county leaders, they should brace themselves to do the same thing next year.
November apartment-seekers in Tysons ended up paying a little less than those on the hunt a month before, but more than those who were seeking leases a year ago.
The median one-bedroom rent of $2,024 and median two-bedroom rent of $2,420 added up to a decrease of 1.1 percent month-over-month but an increase of 0.7 percent year-over-year in Tysons, according to figures reported Nov. 28 by Apartment List.
By Brian Trompeter
Seeking operational efficiencies and ways to combat a paramedic shortage, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department over the past three years has modified how it staffs, dispatches and delivers emergency medical services.
Fairfax County police are investigating the death of a teenager who experienced a drug overdose while at her home in Seven Corners earlier this week.
Detectives have determined that the girl became unconscious while on a video chat with a friend from an apartment in the 2900 block of John Marshall Drive on Monday (Dec. 4), the Fairfax County Police Department reported today (Wednesday).
A plan that will guide the redevelopment of 94 acres of 25 privately owned properties near the Herndon Metrorail Station is expected to go before the Herndon Planning Commission early next year.
The final draft of the Transit-related Growth (TRG) plan will head to the commission by Feb. 1, but one of three property owners that collectively pitched $500,000 to complete the study pulled out from the plan, staff told the Herndon Town Council at a work session yesterday (Tuesday).
(Updated at 5:45 p.m.) Speed was likely a factor in yesterday’s fatal two-car crash on Route 29, the Fairfax County Police Department says.
Sohail Iqbal, 30, of Manassas died at the scene after the driver of a 2013 BMW M3 plowed into his Hyundai Sonata around 12:24 a.m. at the intersection of Route 29 and Clifton Road, just outside Centreville, the police department reported today (Wednesday).
