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Fairfax County awards grants to eight local tech startups

Published September 10, 2024 at 11:00AM

A close-up of a computer chip (via Adi Goldstein/Unsplash)

Fairfax County is giving financial boosts to several local startups that are developing technology to improve communications, make agriculture more efficient and more.

The county’s Department of Economic Initiatives (DEI) announced last Thursday (Sept. 5) that it has selected eight companies for the second round of its Fairfax Founders Fund (FFF), which provides up to $50,000 in grant funding and technical assistance to “promising, early-stage startups” that could “disrupt industries” and create new jobs.

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Annandale special education school seeks to add greenhouse, kitchen

By Melanie Pincus

Published September 5, 2024 at 11:00AM

Phillips School of Annandale (via Google Map

A private school that provides special education for students in first through 12th grade is looking to expand in Annandale (7010 Braddock Road).

The school is part of Phillips Programs, a nonprofit that provides education, family support services and advocacy for students with developmental disabilities and behavioral health needs.

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Jury convicts Springfield man of accepting stolen mail

By Jared Serre

Published August 20, 2024 at 1:30PM

A judge's gavel on a table (via Wesley Tingey/Unsplash)

A Springfield man has been convicted for his role in a string of mail thefts from the West Springfield Post Office.

Kenshaun Thompson, 26, faces up to 15 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him last Thursday (Aug. 15) of three charges of possessing and receiving stolen mail, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

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Annandale, Bailey’s Crossroads eyed for next Capital Bikeshare expansion

By Caitlyn Meisner

Published August 20, 2024 at 9:30AM

A Capital Bikeshare station in Falls Church (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Capital Bikeshare’s familiar red stations might soon start popping up in another section of Fairfax County.

The Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) will host a virtual community meeting on Thursday (Aug. 22) at 7 p.m. to share its plans for expanding the rental bicycle program into the Mason and Braddock Districts.

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NEW: Bonchon to revive Herndon and Annandale restaurants

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 10:30AM

Bonchon sells Korean fried chicken (courtesy Bonchon)

Bonchon Chicken is plotting a comeback in Herndon and Annandale.

The Korean fried chicken chain plans to reopen its Herndon location under different owners, and it has secured a new space in Annandale within the same shopping center where the business saw its previous restaurant destroyed by a fire.

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Park Authority proposes more pickleball courts at Wakefield Park

By Caitlyn Meisner

Published July 8, 2024 at 11:30AM | Updated August 1, 2024 at 10:13AM

The tennis courts at Wakefield Park in Annandale (via Google Maps)

The Fairfax County Park Authority is considering changing up the mix of tennis and pickleball courts at Wakefield Park in Annandale.

The park authority will host a virtual community meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. to present a proposal to convert a tennis court into four pickleball courts.

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FCPD: Two teens shot, one killed, at Annandale apartments

By Angela Woolsey

Published July 1, 2024 at 9:45AM | Updated July 2, 2024 at 10:09AM

The Fairmont Gardens apartments in Annandale (via Google Maps)

Two teens have been arrested following a shooting in Annandale on Friday (June 28) that killed a 14-year-old and left another teen injured.

Detectives believe the two boys were walking together around the Fairmont Gardens Apartments when a vehicle approached them, and its occupants began shooting, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a news release published last night (Sunday).

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Two drivers arrested after crash on I-495 injures state trooper

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 11, 2024 at 10:15AM | Updated June 12, 2024 at 10:31AM

A Virginia State Police trooper's vehicle was damaged in a crash on I-495 on June 11, 2024 (courtesy Virginia State Police)

Two drivers were arrested this morning (Tuesday) for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in connection to a crash on I-495 in Annandale that injured a state trooper.

According to the Virginia State Police, one of its troopers was dispatched to the Capital Beltway near the exit to Little River Turnpike around 3 a.m. for a sedan that had reportedly stopped in a northbound lane.

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Developer pitches turning near-empty Annandale office building into housing

By Melanie Pincus

Published June 4, 2024 at 10:30AM

The office building with a Wells Fargo bank at 7620 Little River Turnpike in Annandale (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A six-floor office building in Annandale could grow two stories taller and add about 50 housing units under a new development plan.

Located at 7620 Little River Turnpike, the office building eyed for residential conversion by Alexandria-based Nicholas Development was built in 1971 and is now “largely vacant and out-of-date,” according to rezoning application materials dated May 28. The building is apparently just 8% occupied.

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Annandale residents question county’s plan to remove Kendale Woods pickleball courts

By Angela Woolsey

Published May 15, 2024 at 3:30PM

Kendale Woods Park's racquetball courts are currently striped so they can be used by both tennis and pickleball players (courtesy Fairfax County Park Authority)

News that the Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) will eliminate the Kendale Woods Park pickleball courts came as a complete surprise to Sarah Wysocki.

An Annandale resident whose house backs up to the park, Wysocki says she and other neighbors first learned about the plan to renovate the courts in June from Annandale Today, which shared the FCPA’s announcement on May 3.