Sports

McLean High School held its 2024 Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony last week, announcing six new inductees during halftime of the Nov. 8 home football game against the Langley Saxons.

The new McLean members are David Daido, Susan South, Alexander Weatherbee, Donald Weatherbee, Ayanna Alexander and Sam Clark.


Sports

After being elsewhere for a year, the Rotary Cup is back in possession of the Langley Saxons.

Langley (8-2, 4-2) reclaimed the neighborhood hardware by blanking the host McLean Highlanders, 38-0, on Friday night (Nov. 8) in the final regular-season football game for both Liberty District high school teams.


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The Potomac School Panthers girls cross-country team last Thursday (Nov. 7) placed second in Virginia’s Division I private-school competition on the 5,000-meter Panorama Farms course near Charlottesville.

The Collegiate School of Richmond won the high-school meet with 49 points. Potomac School had 98.


News

A woman was seriously injured in a crash that occurred near Oakton Shopping Center this morning (Saturday), police say.

Officers are currently on the scene of the two-vehicle crash on Hunter Mill Road at Lynnhaven Place, the Fairfax County Police Department tweeted at 12:03 p.m.


Event

It’s time to get festive. In partnership with Angelika Film Center, the Coca-Cola Holiday Caravan is rolling into Mosaic to kick off the season! Take photos with the iconic Coca-Cola Polar Bear and see the truck before it heads to the next stop on its nationwide tour.

Catch Elf on the big screen, enjoy kids activities and face painting, send a letter to Santa and soak up all the festive fun!


Sports

For the first time in 46 years, the Madison High School Warhawks finished undefeated at 10-0 in regular-season football action.

The Warhawks capped the perfect campaign with a 41-0 blowout victory over the visiting Centreville Wildcats Friday night (Nov. 8). Madison also wrapped up a perfect Concorde District record of 5-0 to clinch the outright league title.


Around Town

Good Friday evening, Fairfax County. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.

🕗 News recap

The following articles were published earlier today — Nov 8, 2024.

Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.

  1. Apple store to close at Fair Oaks Mall ahead of relocation (13437 views)
  2. Plan to demolish Dunn Loring building for new elementary school draws objections (10520 views)
  3. Hayfield football team could be banned from postseason (7317 views)
  4. Construction underway on mystery tenant at Fair City Mall (6583 views)
  5. Police search for suspect in series of Reston townhome burglaries (5641 views)
  6. Trees along Dulles Toll Road in Reston removed by accident, MWAA says (5101 views)
  7. County board split over possible I-495 toll lanes from Springfield into Maryland (4969 views)
  8. Motorcyclist dies after crash on Old Keene Mill Road, the road’s third fatality of 2024 (4578 views)

📅 Upcoming events

Here is what’s going on Saturday throughout the county, from our event calendar.

Here are the events planned for Sunday:

☀️ Saturday’s forecast

Expect sunny skies and a high near 58 during the day, accompanied by a north wind at 5 to 9 mph. Saturday night will be partly cloudy, with temperatures dropping to around 41, and a light, variable wind. See more from Weather.gov.

🌅 Tonight’s sunset

The MonumentCam screenshot above is used with permission of the Trust for the National Mall and courtesy of EarthCam.

We hope you have a great weekend! Feel free to discuss the most-read stories of the week, the upcoming weekend events or anything else of local interest in the comments. 👋


Sports

By a comfortable margin of 17 points and a much closer two, respectively, the Langley Saxons and Chantilly Chargers won girls and boys region cross country-championships on Wednesday (Nov. 6).

Langley scored 61 points and had its top five runners finish among the top 21 in the 2.98-mile 6D North Region girls high-school race at Burke Lake Park. The Yorktown Patriots were second with 88 points.


Sports

It was deja vu all over again in the championship match of this season’s girls 6D North Region field hockey tournament, with one difference.

The Oakton Cougars won the title for the second straight year over the Yorktown Patriots, 1-0, but on the road instead of on their home turf. Oakton also won by a one-goal margin, 2-1, over the Patriots in 2023.


News

Hayfield Secondary School has lost its final appeal to overturn a two-year postseason ban in football.

The final decision was made by a three-person Virginia High School League subcommittee, which heard from both Hayfield and the league Thursday via Zoom before rendering its decision.