News

Washington Dulles International Airport in 2023 recorded the most passengers for any September in its 60-plus-year history, and has now surpassed pre-COVID enplanements in both the international and domestic sides of operations.

The airport tallied just over 1.09 million total passenger departures this September, up a whopping 17.4 percent from a year before and 9.2 percent higher than September 2019, the last year before the pandemic roared in.


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High-school students (and others) with the desire to enter the health-care profession, but without a specific end result in mind, might want to take their cues from Vickie Beamon.

As community-relations coordinator for Northern Virginia Community College’s Medical Education Campus, Beamon is a Pied Piper of sorts, spreading the word of the campus’s offerings to audiences far and wide.


Around Town

For those unsure what to get their loved ones this holiday season, Reston Museum has created a gift-giving guide with niche gift ideas.

The guide includes gifts for kids, collectors, and history lovers. All gift shop proceeds will support Reston Museum’s work.


Around Town

A rock band that once represented Turkey in the popular Eurovision competition will take the stage at Capital One Hall in Tysons on Black Friday for a humanitarian cause.

The Capital One Center performing arts venue (7750 Capital One Tower Road) will host Manga in its main theater on Friday, Nov. 24 for a benefit concert to help children whose injuries from the earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria in February required amputations.


Countywide

Virginia’s next General Assembly won’t convene until Jan. 10, but senators and delegates have already begun penning legislation. (And by that, we mean the Virginia Division of Legislative Services is hard at work translating their goals into the high-flown tones of state code.)

On Monday, the start of the 2024 session’s official prefiling period, lawmakers dropped the first bills that will be up for consideration this January.