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After 40 years of community building, Celebrate Fairfax’s annual festival has ended, but residents can still look forward to community events in the future.

Those looking to reverse the “woke agenda” that has characterized Fairfax County school policy for the last few years can take little comfort from the results of the November election.

With the 2024 General Assembly session approaching, Fairfax County residents can find many stated priorities on the Board of Supervisors’ website.

HOLYOKE — Mayor Joshua A. Garcia’s crackdown on street crime, after a child’s tragic death, is producing both a mountain of arrests and near gridlock in local courts. Since Nov.

Fairfax County residents went to the polls on Nov. 7 and elected Democrats to most positions at the county and state levels.

Virginia voters favored the Democrats in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates by a slim margin on Nov. 7.

Nearly half of the registered voters in Fairfax County participated in this year’s general election, which decided state and local representatives who will shape policies on issues from abortion to land use in the coming years. As of Tuesday (Nov. 7), 382,573 of the county’s 787,171 registered voters have cast a ballot — good for

Early voting is over, and Election Day 2023 is less than 24 hours away. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday). Virginia now allows same-day registration, though those voters will cast provisional ballots that are counted and validated later by the Fairfax County Electoral Board. Mail ballots can be placed

The official ballots for next week's general election identify just one candidate for the job of top prosecutor in Fairfax County, but a group that identifies itself as victims' rights supporters hopes to push another man into the office instead. Defense attorney Ed Nuttall, who lost the Democratic primary in June to incumbent Steve Descano,

All Fairfax County Public Schools employees will get a bump in their paychecks, starting next year, after the school board unanimously approved 2% raises last week. The additional pay was made possible by the budget that the Virginia General Assembly belatedly adopted in early September, which provided money to raise teacher salaries across the state.