Friday Download, 8/30: A high chance of storms and a guarantee of live music

Shows by Old Crow Medicine Show and the Roots, a Labor Day concert at the Capitol, and your weekend forecast

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Happy Friday, Fairfax County.

Here’s your weekly roundup of top local headlines, plus a guide to the long weekend’s forecast and events — from the 50th Virginia Scottish Games to live music just about everywhere.

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County news I read this week

Business and development 📈

• Call Your Mother expands its local empire by setting up (permanent) shop in McLean (Patch)

• What’s taking the Centreville Lidl so long to open? (Reddit)

Criminal justice and public safety 🚓

• Man who attacked Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office with a bat pleads guilty by reason of insanity (NBC4)

Health 🩺

• Explaining the dangers of the mosquitoes that are everywhere this summer (WaPo)

History 🏺

• Archaeologists find bottles of cherries at Mount Vernon that ‘likely haven’t seen the light of day since before the American Revolution’ (NPR)

• Herndon to add historical marker on library and town’s segregated past (FFXnow)

Housing and homelessness 🏠

• County prepares to evict its largest homeless encampment, in Reston, by Sept. 10 (Fairfax County Times)

Sports 🏈

• FCPS clears Hayfield football program after investigation into player transfers and eligibility (WaPo)

Transportation 🚍

• Freight train on fire stops on tracks in Burke (NBC4)

• Frontier Airlines will return to Dulles, offering flights to Atlanta and Orlando (WTOP)

• Dulles hit a record 99 degrees on Wednesday as the county and region baked (WaPo)

Weekend weather (from the National Weather Service)

Look, I hate to be the one to tell you this. But:

• Friday: Cloudy and a bit foggy, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. Highs in the mid-70s, lows in the upper 60s. ⛈️

• Saturday: Mostly cloudy to partly sunny, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms later in the day. Highs in the upper 80s, lows in the lower 70s. ⛈️

• Sunday: A little more sun but still a chance of showers and storms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s, lows in the mid-60s 🌥️

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Things to do

• Rock yourself (and maybe your mama) at Wolf Trap performances by Old Crow Medicine Show (Friday), the Roots (Saturday) or Band of Horses (Sunday) 🐺

• Take in the last concerts in the county’s summer series, at Grist Mill Park in Mount Vernon (Friday) and at Herndon’s Arrowbrook Centre Park (Saturday) 🎵

• Jam at DC Jazzfest performances around the city, including on the Wharf and at the Kennedy Center (through Sunday) 🎷

• Want to jazz it up even more? Stop by Reston’s annual Mykle Lyons Jazz Festival, which benefits music education. (Saturday) 🎺

• See Old Town Fairfax’s Civil War sites, historic 1800 courthouse and more on a free walking tour (Saturday) 🚶

• Dive headfirst into fall with a corn maze and apple-picking at Great Country Farms in Loudoun (Saturday through Sept. 30) 🍎

• Watch highland dancing and athletics and eat haggis and meat pies at the 50th Virginia Scottish Games, in The Plains (Saturday and Sunday) 🥧

• Enjoy the National Symphony Orchestra’s annual Labor Day Concert, on the West Lawn of the Capitol (Sunday) 🎻

My plans

I’ll be housing falafel and shawarma at the Middle Eastern Food Festival, in McLean. After that, if I can still stand, I’ll be seeing some friends in D.C. and here in Reston — and I’ve got a story for you all that I’m going to try to pull together.

Hope you have a great long weekend.