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Bonnie Hobbs

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‘We Didn’t Know it Would End that Fast’ in Centreville

Gate Post Estates holds a graduation parade.

Thanks to COVID-19, this year’s high-school seniors didn’t get to have their achievements and graduation recognized in a public way.

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‘Kids Outside Will Get Full Force of the Sound’ in Westfields

Jumbo jets would fly just 950 feet above Westfields homes.

Like global warming, people may choose to ignore airport noise contours – but their effects will still happen, nonetheless.

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‘It Felt Good to Be Recognized and Appreciated’ in Fairfax County

County thanks its Public Works employees with food.

National Public Works Week was May 17-23; and as COVID-19 has revealed whose labor is essential – not just in a crisis, but every day – Fairfax County celebrated workers in a category that doesn’t immediately spring to mind.

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Chantilly High Grad Is New Firefighter

Chantilly High grad Christopher Wolf is among 53 new recruits who recently graduated from Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department (FCFRD) Basic Training.

Centreville Man Charged in Female Jogger’s Assault

Fairfax County police have arrested a 21-year-old Centreville man in connection with an assault last week on a woman jogging in Franconia. He is Vincent Wesley, and police charged him with malicious wounding and strangulation.

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‘More Traffic Will Go Down Galesbury’ in Chantilly

VDOT’s proposals for Route 50 intersections.

Under normal traffic conditions, the two-mile segment of Route 50 between Route 28 and Stringfellow Road in Chantilly is clogged during the morning and evening rush. It also averages 71,000 vehicles a day and has a high number of crashes.

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‘Seeing What We Mean to the Community Is Gratifying’ in Fair Oaks

First responders salute healthcare heroes at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital.

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‘I Never Imagined He’d Die So Young’

Family, friends mourn the death of Juwaan Espinal.

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An ‘Outpouring of Love and Kindness’ in Chantilly

Church members honor cancer-fighting pastor with caravan.

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‘It Started As a Little Gesture and Grew Bigger’

Craftsman Auto Care helps provide meals to hospital staff.

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Girls Can ‘Make Our World a Better Place’

Raytheon’s Chantilly event encourages them to become engineers.

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‘I’ve Been Blessed, and I Try to Give Back’

Ciao brings free meals to doctors, nurses, firefighters.

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‘Alternative 3 is the Worst of All the Plans’ in Centreville

Meeting about Braddock Road, Old Lee Road stirs controversy.

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‘Ensuring That Our Community Is Taken Care Of’

Residents stuff the bus for WFCM food drive.

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‘Teamwork, Safety and Aggressive Criminal Patrol’ in Sully District

Pfeiffer is Sully District Police Station’s Officer of the Year.

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‘I No Longer Feel Like I Can Trust Anyone’

Judge, victim’s family, unhappy about suspended sentence.

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‘Take a Moment Today and Count Your Blessings’

North Korean refugees speak to Chantilly High students.

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Peer Support Service Dogs Provide Comfort, Stress Relief in Fairfax County

Pilot program helps police officers cope with a dangerous job.

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Celebrating 100 Years with Community Service in Chantilly

Ahmadiyya Muslims fill food packages for people in need.

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MWAA: ‘Warn New Residents about Airplane Noise’

New homes in Westfields are proposed for high-decibel areas.

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Centreville: ‘We’re Asking a Lot of Drivers in this Area’

Update on road construction on Routes 28/29 and I-66.

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Friend, Historian, Icon and Local Treasure of Centreville

Matriarch Mildred DeBell dies at 101.

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‘It Takes a Long Time to Master this Job’

Behind the scenes with a police K9 officer.

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Westfield’s Keeley Rogers in Upcoming Musical

The Fairfax Academy presents ‘A Chorus Line.’

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‘There Are Cracks in the Concrete’ of Route 29 Bridge

Bridge northbound over Cub Run to be rehabilitated.

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‘You Get into this Business to Help People’

Meet Capt. Todd Billeb, Sully District Station commander.

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A Place for People to Honor, Remember their Pets in Fairfax

New tribute garden is built outside the animal shelter.

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Our Neighbor’s Child Makes Children’s Dreams Come True in Western Fairfax County

ONC is in its 28th year of bringing holiday joy to hundreds of local families in need. One of its gift-packaging days was Thursday, Dec. 12.

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Sully District Police MPO Kitzerow Receives Two Awards

Honored by Crime Solvers and Sully District Station.

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‘It’s Important to Remember the Past’ in Chantilly

Honoring Richard Bland Lee at Sully Historic Site.

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Sully District Police PFC Brian Carter Is Honored

Chosen as Sully District Police Station’s Officer of the Quarter.

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‘It Brings Broadway and Christmas Together’ in Annandale

Encore presents holiday musical, “Finding Santa.”

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‘This Was a Brutal and Heinous Act’

60 years’ prison for murdering Sunoco Station clerk.

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