By Brian Trompeter
The Turner Farmhouse Foundation will host its annual pancake breakfast and open house on Saturday, Dec. 2 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. The free event is open to the community and on-site parking is available, with volunteers able to assist.
By Brian Trompeter
New outdoor-lighting rules approved unanimously by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 21 aim to ensure night skies above Turner Farm Park Observatory in Great Falls will not be subject to worsening light pollution – at least from the surrounding neighborhood.
By Brian Trompeter
The Fairfax County Park Authority Board on Nov. 17 honored dozens of outstanding volunteers and philanthropists for their service and valuable contributions to parks at the annual Elly Doyle Park Service Awards Ceremony on Nov. 17.
By Brian Trompeter
Crime is up in several categories and officers with the Fairfax County Police Department’s McLean District Station are taking multiple steps to combat it.
By Brian Trompeter
Candidate Sandra Allen has emerged victorious in the contest for the remaining sixth Vienna Town Council seat, following a razor-close finish certified by the Fairfax County Electoral Board one week after the Nov. 7 election.
By Brian Trompeter
Vienna residents hoping for expanded hours limiting noise from businesses or restricting the use of gasoline-powered leaf blowers likely will be disappointed when the Vienna Town Council votes on a modified noise ordinance in December.
By Brian Trompeter
This winter, like several in recent years, could will be on the mild side, but the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has got tons of salt, sand, equipment and personnel to tackle any weather-related challenges that blow in.
By Brian Trompeter
Vienna’s potential new tree-canopy ordinance will have to wait until next year for action, to the consternation of some Town Council members.
Home showings were up but new listings and ratified sales contracts were down week-over-week across the regional real-estate market, according to new figures.
Listing prices also dipped week-over-week but remained above the same period in 2022, according to data reported Nov. 13 by Bright MLS.
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.
