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Mosaic District draws crowds despite pandemic
A closed section of Strawberry Lane serves as a gathering space. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a heat wave, the Mosaic District in Merrifield was fairly crowded on Sunday evening. While several...
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Hookah bar to open in Bailey's Crossroads
The Shops at Bailey's Crossroads on Leesburg Pike.The Jerusalem Restaurant, at 3400 Washington Drive, Bailey’s Crossroads, is adding a hookah bar, called Afandina, in the same shopping center. It’s...
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Hoverboard causes house fire in Seven Corners
The burned hoverboard. [FCFRD]A house fire in the 2900 block of Meadow Lane in Seven Corners on Aug. 9 was caused by a hoverboard that ignited while being charged, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue...
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Pupusas Express opens in Annandale
Pupusas Express, a Salvadoran fast-food eatery is now open in the Annandale Shopping Center. It’s in the former Quiznos spot, at 7042 Columbia Pike. The restaurant offers several varieties of rice and...
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Fairfax County Schools prepare for virtual learning
Instructional materials organized for students at Woodburn Elementary School. [FCPS]Virtual learning this fall will involve less homework and plenty of time for off-screen group and individual...
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New group home in Annandale serves troubled youths
A group home for youths opened this week at 4700 Monterey Drive in the Hillbrook-Tall Oaks neighborhood in Annandale. The Discovery Mood and Anxiety Programs center provides mental health, substance...
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Police report: larceny, brandishing, assault
A man was arrested for stealing merchandise from the Home Depot on Arlington Boulevard in Seven Corners at about 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 7, the Fairfax County Police Department reports. When officers...
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Fairfax County offers limited, in-person option for children this fall at six...
Mason Crest Elementary School in Annandale, one of 37 schools offering an in-person option this fall for a limited number of children. Fairfax County launched a new program, called Supporting Return to...
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Residents can help prevent infestation by invading beetles
There’s a killer on the loose in Fairfax County and residents can help catch it. The Asian Longhorned Beetle is an invasive species that attacks and kills many kings of shade trees, including its...
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Problem-plagued Annandale Healthcare Center accepts new patients, prepares...
Someone’s mother lives in this room at the Annandale Healthcare Center. Updated Aug. 16: The Annandale Healthcare Center (AHC), the nursing home with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths in Virginia, is...
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Voting FAQs - Everything you need to know about absentee voting and much more
Demonstrators protesting recent changes at the U.S. Postal Service that could jeopardize the agency’s ability to handle mail-in ballots put mock absentee ballots on the door of the condo where...
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Bailey's Crossroads resident dies in house fire
Arnet Street in Bailey's Crossroads.nA house fire in the 5800 block of Arnet Street in Bailey’s Crossroads on Aug. 16 resulted in the death of an occupant, the Fairfax County Fire Department reports....
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Faith-based walk against racism will pass through Annandale
Walk the Walk 2020, “a faith pilgrimage of reckoning, resolve, and love,” will be passing through Annandale on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The event emerges from a declaration by white clergy and faith leaders...
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Virginia governor proposes improvements in absentee voting
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced a series of proposals Aug. 18 to ensure people have safe access to voting in the Nov. 3 election amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.These measures, to be...
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Fairfax Connector, Metrobus to ramp up service
Connector route 401 on Little River Turnpike in Annandale.Fairfax Connector will resume full service on all routes starting Saturday, Aug. 29, and Metrobus will ramp up service Aug. 23. Service on both...
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Deer hunting approved for several Annandale-area parks
Signs like this one, in Holmes Run Stream Valley, are posted in parks approved for deer hunting. Fairfax County’s annual archery program to cull the deer population starts Sept. 12 and runs through...
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Indoor classes to resume at Fairfax County park facilities this fall
The horticulture center at Green Spring Gardens hosts workshops and lectures on gardening topics.In-person, indoor classes and other programs will resume this fall at Fairfax County parks and historic...
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Annandale family beset by tragedy needs help from the community
From the left: Liza, Clara, Jaime, and Humberto Diaz. The Diaz family of Annandale has been ravaged by several forms of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the economic fallout from COVID-19....
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Lidl to host a pop-up market the weekend before it opens
Construction of the new Lidl store in Annandale is almost finished.The grocery new Lidl grocery store coming to Pinecrest Plaza will host a pop-up market outside the store on Sept. 5 and 6 ahead of the...
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Mason District task force agrees two plan amendments in Seven Corners should...
The Gibson house is in the center, and the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center is on the left. The road at the top left is Leesburg Pike. The Mason District task force charged with reviewing nominations to...
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