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CyberPatriots Meet FireEye Experts

Most school field trips take in a museum, maybe a visit to a historic house or possibly a kid-centric performance of some kind.

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Transportation Strategy Update Launched

NVTA launches work on a six-year TransAction program.

Members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) chose an appropriate location to announce the launch of the organization’s TransAction update efforts last week.

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Creating Great Families Through Adoption

More than 800 children in foster care in Virginia are ready and waiting to be adopted.

November is National Adoption Awareness Month. With that in mind, meet two families expanded through adoption; two families whose kids describe their family as "awesome."

860 Virginia Children Need Homes

“Parental rights terminated.” “Available for adoption.” “Floundering in an imperfect system.” These words describe many children who are currently living in foster care in Virginia.

Quiet Riot: ‘C’mon Feel the Noise’

County passes new noise ordinance, will revisit effectiveness in 18 months.

The Board of Supervisors is at peace with the county’s new Noise Ordinance.

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Fairfax County Updates Teacher Safety Training In Wake of Woodson Fire

Science teachers across Fairfax County Public Schools have begun mandatory updated safety training in the wake of an Oct. 30 fire at Woodson High School that injured five students and a teacher, and caused $7,500 in damage.

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Veteran’s Day Ceremony Held at Herndon Town Green

American Legion Post 184 honored veterans with an observance on the Herndon Town Green on Wednesday, Nov. 11.

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Fairfax County: Garza Presents Budget Task Force Report to School Board

Transparency and methodology of budget review questioned.

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Karen Garza is attempting to scale a towering projected budget shortfall for Fiscal Year 2017. On Nov. 9, she presented School Board members the report of budget cuts recommended by a 36-member task force she summoned earlier this year.

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New Businesses to Open In Herndon, Reston

Comstock Partners has prepared a lease with Farmers Restaurant Group to bring the restaurant to Reston Station at Wiehle-Reston East Metro station. Additional business developments with the Herndon and Reston area.

CIT in Herndon Announces New Members to Board

The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced the newly appointed members of the CIT Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of its parent authority, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (IEIA).

Week in Herndon

Weekly happenings in Herndon.

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Sacrificial Limb in Herndon?

’Chaotic intersection’ at Center and Elden finally to be improved.

Town Councilmember Sheila Olem goes out of her way to avoid the intersection at Center and Elden streets.

Herndon Briefs

The Herndon Town Council requested $2 million in funding from the county park authority’s 2016 Bond Referendum to “complete enhancements on outdated facilities at Herndon Middle School.”

Herndon Company Calls for Solicitation for Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund

$3.4 million in funding opportunities available for Virginia’s research community.

The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) in Herndon announced Friday, Oct. 30, the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) Request for Proposals (RFP) for FY2016.

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Fairfax Library Foundation Raises $197,000 at A Library Jubilee

The Fairfax Library Foundation hosted A Library Jubilee! Soiree in the Stacks on Saturday, Oct. 17 at Woodrow Wilson Library in Falls Church.