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Roundups

Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012

News briefs for Centreville and Chantilly.

Weekly Entertainment (Reston/Herndon)

April 20-27.

Things happening in the Reston/Herndon area.

Fantasy Pumpkins To Thrill and Delight

Centreville man creates Halloween enchantment.

n his daily life, Noel Dickover is a federal contractor for the State Department. He’s also a science-fiction junkie and an expert pumpkin carver. So as Halloween approaches, when he comes home at night to Centreville’s Westbrooke community, he busies himself designing and carving the 50 or so pumpkins that’ll be displayed in his front yard at 14223 Hartwood Court on Halloween night. The glowing spectacle attracts 500 to more than 1,000 visitors each year, and word of his creations has spread internationally. Dickover puts his patterns online for free and just asks anyone who does them to send him photos of their finished creations. “Last December, I was doing a technology event for nongovernmental organizations,” he said. “I was in Bucharest, Romania, and this guy comes up to me and says, ‘I know you — I did your Angry Birds pattern.’ I was just floored by that — that was awesome.”

Centreville Football Team Headed to State Championship Game

Wildcats beat Westfield in 6A North region final.

Centreville will face Oscar Smith in the big-school state championship game for the second time in three seasons.

Hidden History of St. Asaph Racetrack

Del Ray was once home to an infamous gambling operation creating by a double-dealing senator.

You’d never know it today, but Del Ray was once the capital of gambling in Northern Virginia.

‘All about Our Children’

Parents discuss three school-boundary scenarios.

The goal of the Fairfax High/Lanier Middle School boundary study is to remove 300 students from Fairfax and 150 from Lanier and send them elsewhere to relieve overcrowding at those two schools. But how best to do it has not yet been decided.

Youth Basketball League Championships

The Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities held the Youth Basketball League Championship Games on Saturday, March 9 at T.C. Williams High School.

Long-Time Potomac Residents Share Their Stories.

Eyewitnesses to Potomac’s Past

“Each of our speakers is a history book,” Dana Semmes told the standing-room-only crowd at the Shanghai Café in the Potomac Oaks Shopping Center. “They will share with us memories of Potomac long ago in the ‘30s, ‘40s and 50s.”

Getting To Know … Toni Annette Thomas

Crime Report

On the Horizon

Oakton Library inches toward a reality.

On the Horizon

Fairfax: Messages of Hope, Love at New Lamb Center

It was 19 degrees outside when about 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon at the site of the new Lamb Center for a beam-signing. But inside the building still under construction, it might as well have been 90 degrees – warmed by all the love and well wishes of those attending.

Burke Home Sales: November, 2014

In November 2014, 36 Burke homes sold between $680,000-$214,000.

Burke Home Sales: November, 2014

Roundups: Chantilly/Centreville — Jan. 22, 2014

News briefs and community notes.

Oak Hill, Herndon Home Sales: January, 2014

In January 2014, 35 homes sold between $827,575-$140,000 in the Herndon and Oak Hill area.

Oak Hill, Herndon Home Sales: January, 2014

Fairfax County: School Board Receives New Transgender Regulations

Discussion moves to a work session

Friday afternoon, July 1, Fairfax County School Board members each received an email containing new operating regulations regarding transgender and gender nonconforming students.

Opinion: Commentary: The Time to Act is Now

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “a riot is the language of the unheard.” The centuries-long pain and suffering of black communities across this Commonwealth and our nation is clearer now to majority whites than ever before.

Clifton, Fairfax Station and Lorton Home Sales: January, 2018

In January, 2018, 36 homes sold between $1,210,000-$150,000 in the Clifton, Fairfax Station and Lorton area.