(Updated at 10:55 a.m. on 11/10/2023) About 40% of registered Fairfax County voters participated in this year’s general election, which decided state and local representatives who will shape policies on issues from abortion to land use in the coming years.
As of Friday (Nov. 10), 308,855 of the county’s 787,171 registered voters cast a ballot — a 39.2% turnout rate, according to unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections.
(Updated at 2:20 p.m.) Fairfax County is beginning talks for a pedestrian crossing at a dangerous intersection of Wiehle Avenue at the Dulles Toll Road ramps in Reston.
As part of its plan to redevelop the Campus Commons office complex, developer TF Cornerstones has agreed to give the county $1.65 million to build an alternative crossing for the area after a study group failed to reach consensus on a preferred alternative for the site in 2021.
A driver was killed and a motorcyclist seriously injured in two separate crashes in Fairfax County this morning (Thursday).
The fatal crash occurred around 12:30 a.m. on the Capital Beltway (I-495) near Eisenhower Avenue in the Rose Hill area, according to Virginia State Police.
Three men have been arrested for coercing women into sex work at “high-end” brothels in Massachusetts and Virginia, the Department of Justice announced yesterday (Wednesday).
Locations used for the brothels include units in Hanover Tysons and Avalon Mosaic, apartment buildings in Tysons and Merrifield, according to a court affidavit by a Department of Homeland Security special agent.
Location Chosen for New FBI HQ — “Federal officials have decided the FBI will leave its iconic but decaying headquarters in downtown Washington for the Maryland suburbs, multiple people familiar with the decision said Wednesday…An empty 61-acre plot outside the Greenbelt Metro station” will win out over another Prince George’s County site and a Springfield warehouse favored by Virginia. [Washington Post]
Departing Pandas Pass Through Fairfax County — The Smithsonian National Zoo’s three giant pandas traveled through Fairfax County yesterday (Wednesday) on their way to Dulles International Airport. With the departure of Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and Xiao Qi Ji, the D.C. zoo will be panda-free for the first time in over 50 years. [Fairfax County Government/Twitter]
By Brian Trompeter
As post-pandemic office vacancies continue to run high and the need for housing increases, the McLean Citizens Association (MCA) board of directors is keeping an eye on both trends and their impacts.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County supervisors on Oct. 24 unanimously agreed to use eminent-domain powers to obtain land rights from one property owner in order to proceed with the planned Chain Bridge Road Walkway project.
From the highest of high notes to the depths of their souls, competitors in the 2023 Classical Voice Vocal-Arts Competition for Emerging Artists of the Northern Virginia Business and Professional Women’s Club wowed a viewing audience as they gained performance skills and earned scholarship funds.
The biennial competition, held Nov. 4, asked competitors ages 18 to 26 to perform one selection from each of three categories: arias, art songs and either a Negro spiritual or work by a contemporary African-American composer.
By Brian Trompeter
Fairfax County police, along with several other county agencies, took part Oct. 28 in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s 25th annual National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day initiative.
By Brian Trompeter
A building at Chesterbrook Shopping Center in McLean that has reduced visibility from being positioned away from Old Dominion Drive now will be allowed to have signage on its rear as well as front, following unanimous approval Oct. 24 from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
