By Brian Trompeter
Two McLean private schools – one catering to high-school girls, the other to boys and girls in kindergarten through 12th grade – are finalizing preparations for fall classes to begin.
Good Wednesday 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 — Aug 21, 2024.
- 8:15 am: Morning Notes for August 21, 2024 | 🗣️ Comments
- 9:30 am: Te’Amo Boba Bar now open in the Mosaic District | 🗣️ Comments
- 10:30 am: Virginia students make some gains on annual test scores; schools see less absenteeism | 🗣️ Comments
- 11:30 am: After successful launch, Lake Anne Plaza expands ‘Second Sunday’ promotions | 🗣️ Comments
- 12:15 pm: JUST IN: Chantilly man charged with murder after Gold’s Gym shooting | 🗣️ Comments
- 12:50 pm: UPDATED: Police find no threat from ‘suspicious device’ near Innovation Metro station | 🗣️ Comments
- 1:30 pm: With new council, Fairfax County board seeks forward-looking approach to economic growth | 🗣️ Comments
- 2:30 pm: Herndon advances traffic calming plan for Ferndale Avenue | 🗣️ Comments
- 3:30 pm: For 15th year, Vienna Oktoberfest adds new brewery, bike garden | 🗣️ Comments
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on Thursday throughout the county, from our event calendar.
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☀️ Thursday’s forecast
Expect sunny skies and a high of around 78 degrees with a light northwest wind at 6 mph. Thursday night, the skies will be mostly clear, and the temperature will drop to a low of approximately 57 degrees, accompanied by calm winds. 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.
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With temperatures at least temporarily feeling almost autumnal, the Vienna Business Association (VBA) is already starting to hype up its upcoming Oktoberfest.
The annual festival and fundraiser for the VBA will celebrate its 15th anniversary from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, bringing food, beer, artisan and business vendors, and live entertainment to the Church Street area in downtown Vienna.
Eventually, Ferndale Avenue will get curb bump outs, additional crosswalks and marked parking lanes, changes intended to slow down traffic and protect pedestrians.
First, though, Town of Herndon staff are reviewing options for temporary, more immediate safety measures that can be implemented ahead of the long-term traffic calming project, which has no set funding or completion date yet.
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BrownTown returns to the DC Improv with headliner Nina Kharoufeh; also featuring Badar Tareen, Yasmin Elhady, Mahmoud Jaber, and Mike Kurtz. Come for stand-up, stay for a civil-rights lawyer grilling a white comedian about race. Every show has sold out—get tix now!
Fairfax County is taking a new approach to economic development, one that it hopes will place a greater emphasis on results rather than process.
By replacing the long-standing Economic Advisory Commission (EAC) with a Council for Economic Opportunity (CEO), the county’s Board of Supervisors can modernize its efforts to encourage county-wide economic growth, Mount Vernon District Supervisor Dan Storck says.
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Fairfax County police have determined there’s no threat posed by a “suspicious device” that was reportedly seen near the Innovation Center Metro station in the Herndon area.
Officers were dispatched to the area around 10:34 a.m. after a caller reported “a strange package that looks like a pressure cooker” near Sunrise Valley Drive, according to scanner traffic on Open MHz.
A Chantilly man is facing a murder charge in connection to yesterday’s fatal shooting at Gold’s Gym in Reston.
Steve Taehee Ha, 43, was arrested around 9 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday), nearly eight hours after he allegedly shot another man who was working out at the gym on the ground floor of the VY Reston Heights apartments.
Businesses at Lake Anne Plaza in Reston hope to get residents and visitors buzzing again with the return of their new “Second Sunday” event.
Conceived by OmBaked CBD Boutique owner Radhika Murari, the effort to draw foot traffic to the plaza and its many independently owned businesses and nonprofits will expand on Sunday, Sept. 8 with new promotions and additional participants after a successful introduction on the second Sunday of August (Aug. 11).
Virginia students’ reading and math assessments for the 2023-24 school year saw some improvement over last year after months of recovery efforts, according to data released by the Department of Education Tuesday. However, pass rates in other subjects are still behind results from the 2022-23 school year.
Pass rates for grades 3 through 8 in reading, math, and science Standards of Learning tests all showed increases statewide by at least 1%. Writing showed the highest increase — 17 percentage points — while history and social science saw little gain, less than a percentage point.