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Create your own hot pot combo at New Little Dipper restaurant
The Little Dipper Hot Pot, now open at 3000 Annandale Road in the Bill Page shopping center, offers a mix-and-match dining concept based on the Chinese hot pot cuisine. Diners order an individual pot...
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Stuart Foundation helps Stuart graduates go to college
Some of the Stuart High School graduates who received scholarships from the Stuart Educational Foundation. Hundreds of Stuart High School graduates from lower-income families were given an opportunity...
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County plants trees on future development site in Bailey's Crossroads
New trees on the Southeast Quadrant. Fairfax County officials knew the property on the corner of Columbia Pike and Moncure Avenue was going to be torn up when AvalonBay starts construction on an...
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Temporary fire station planned for Annandale Road at South Street
The future site of the temporary fire station. Construction should start in about a year on a temporary fire station on the wooded lot at the corner of Annandale Road and South Street in Falls Church....
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Gang members convicted of murders in Holmes Run Park
Lopez-Torres [U.S. Attorney's Office]Six members of the street gang La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) were convicted by a federal jury May 9 for their roles in three murders and one attempted murder in...
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Six things to do at the farmers market
The Fairfax County farmers markets opened for the season last week – offering in-season fresh produce and all kinds of other homemade goodies. The Wakefield Market, in the parking lot at Wakefield Park...
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Say hello to your neighbor
This weekend has been designated “Neighbor 2 Neighbor Knock” (N2N) to encourage residents to meet people on your street that you may have waved to in passing but never actually talked to. While the...
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Community engagement process under way on renaming Stuart HS
At student rally urging a name change for Stuart High School. The Fairfax County School Board has begun the process to consider whether the community wants to change the name of JEB Stuart High...
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LongHorn Steakhouse in Bailey's Crossroads opens Monday
The new LongHorn in Bailey's Crossroads. [Dan Rosenstein]The new LongHorn Steakhouse in Bailey’s Crossroads officially opens for dinner Monday, May 16, at 4 p.m. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony...
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Stop the ‘one-size-fits-all’ zoning proposal
Tysons, where high-density development makes sense.This opinion piece by Terry Maynard, co-chair of the Reston 20/20 Committee, was published May 11 in the Reston Connection. We are republishing it...
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Hotel to open in Seven Corners June 7
Workers are putting the finishing touches on the new Hampton Inn.The new Hampton Inn & Suites on Route 50 in Seven Corners is set to open on June 7. The nine-story hotel, at 6430 Arlington...
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Another tenant leaving Pinecrest Plaza
Balancé Ballet is closing in late June, citing the increasing rents in Pinecrest Plaza where it’s been teaching children to dance for the past 10 years. The ballet school joins a handful of other...
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Brewery coming to Mosaic District
The tasting room at the Caboose Brewery in Vienna. [Caboose]Caboose Brewing Company is opening a new brewery in the Mosaic District in Merrifield. To celebrate the announcement – and the first...
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Federal grant supports public art project in Seven Corners
A public art project is planned for the area between Arlington Boulevard and Sleepy Hollow Road in Seven Corners The Arts Council of Fairfax County’s “Image Art Here” initiative, calling for the...
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Crime report: assault by mob
The following recent crimes in the Annandale/Mason District area were reported in the Fairfax County Police Department’s daily blotter: Assault by mob: A 21-year-old man was walking home on the 6000...
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New ped bridge installed in Broyhill Crest
A new pedestrian bridge was installed over a creek in the Broyhill Crest neighborhood on May 14 – just 52 days after the old decaying bridge was removed and Mason Supervisor told the community there...
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Former Annandale fire chief dies
Joseph Paul Gura Sr., former chief and life member of the Annandale Volunteer Fire Department (AVFD), died May 9, at the age of 70 at ManorCare Health Services-Alexandria.Known as “Metro Joe,” Gura was...
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Gross names Charles DeSeve and Debo Burk Lord and Lady Fairfax
Debo BurkDeborah “Debo” Burk and Charles DeSeve have been designated Mason District’s 2016 Lady and Lord Fairfax, respectively. The two were named by Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross for their...
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Trail project planned for McWhorter Place
McWhorter Place.The Fairfax County Department of Transportation is planning to construct a trail on McWhorter Place in Annandale. There will be a community meeting on the project May 25 in the...
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Supervisors to vote on meals tax referendum on June 7
A sign in Silverado.On June 7, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on whether a meals tax should be put to voters on the Nov. 8 election ballot. If the board approves the...
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