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Fairfax County teachers just approved historic contracts

Friday Download, 11/22: Cider and cookie fests in Alexandria, a holiday market at Mosaic, and a family fall fair in Springfield

Friday Download, 11/15: Bull Run Festival of Lights, the 2024 Holiday Craft Show, and the DMV Chocolate & Coffee Festival

The tricky back-and-forth over pickleball and tennis

Friday Download, 11/8: Northern Virginia Christmas Market, Old Town Book Fair, ice-skating and stargazing

How Fairfax County just voted

Friday Download, 11/1: Pickle and Grilled Cheese Fest, a massive jack-o'-lantern display, and the Winter Lantern Festival

Friday Download, 10/25: Every big Halloween event I could reasonably fit

Breaks in the tennis-pickleball war

Friday Download, 10/18: Stargazing, the Reston Home Tour, and fall events from Alexandria to Centreville

A month of fatal pedestrian crashes — and a month to prevent more

Friday Download, 10/11: Fairfax Fall Festival, butter chicken and Kevin Bacon

Do you trick out your house for Halloween? The Machine wants to see it.

Friday Download, 10/4: A Nerf-gun war, lobster and Greek festivals, and clearer skies

Friday Download, 9/27: ‘Clue,’ craft beer and a continuing downpour

Programming Notes: Train-track trespassing

Friday Download, 9/20: Alexandria events, Oktoberfests and Shrek

How to vote early in Fairfax County — and what’s on your ballot

Friday Download, 9/13: Sunny skies and a Saturday festival for everyone

Fairfax County’s new rules for data centers, explained

Friday Download, 9/6: Brewfests, Rob Thomas and fall temps

Up on deadly tracks

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

A big thank you — and a little giveaway

Friday Download, 8/23: A return to school and to summer weather

Fairfax and the transformed presidential race

This week and weekend in Fairfax County, 8/16

How to guard a life

The Dragons Concord is staying open

‘This is ridiculous’: Clerical error postpones Fairfax data centers vote

Post Production: The strange fuel of Reston

Fairfax County’s big change on school boundaries, explained

How Big Oil saved Reston’s radical vision

Post Production: The frights of the Concord

Facing doom, and playing on

A call for data about data centers

4 things to know from last night’s House primaries in Fairfax County

In a packed VA-10 race for Congress, opportunity knocks

Fairfax teachers will bargain for a contract: What it means for schools and what’s next

Herndon’s mayor wants downtown redevelopment — but she’s no ‘dictator’

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