Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Let us know if you hear of a new business or government closing due to weather in the Herndon area.
We're keeping track of a rolling list of closures. This article will be updated with new closures as they come in, with the most recent ones at the top. Check back throughout the day, and let us know if you hear of a new closure, or post it in the comments. • Trivia is canceled at Finnegan's in Woodland Park Crossing tonight, but the restaurant will be open its normal hours. • The Reston YMCA announced it will be closing at 4 p.m. today. • All of tonight's classes are canceled at Gold's Gym at the Clocktower shopping center in Herndon. • Herndon's Down Dog Yoga has canceled its 6 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. classes for tonight. • Announced at 12:15 p.m. — the Herndon Community Center offices will be closing at 1 p.m. today due to inclement …
Friday, January 25, 2013
A look at what's canceled, rescheduled Friday as winter weather advisory goes into effect.
Several school and government services and community activities are being canceled Friday in anticipation of afternoon snow. The Capital Weather Gang anticipates 1 to 2 inches of snow will fall between 2 and 5 p.m. Friday. A winter weather advisory from the National Weather Service is in place from 2 to 9 p.m. for Vienna and surrounding cities and counties. The service predicts "snow will begin during the mid-afternoon and taper off in the evening. Snow may be moderate to locally heavy at times during the late afternoon and early evening." Roads will become snow covered and slippery, the service says, "resulting in hazardous travel during the afternoon and evening commute." The following services and activities in and around Vienna are …
Monday, October 8, 2012
FDR designated the day a holiday in 1937.
“In fourteen-hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” is a line anyone who has attended elementary school should be familiar with as the poem taught to students to help teach the history of explorer Christopher Columbus. Every year in October in the United States, Americans celebrate “Columbus Day,” the day Columbus arrived in what was considered the New World before it was renamed the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492 while he was searching for a water route from Europe to Asia. According to history.com, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Columbus Day as a federal holiday in 1937 at the urging of the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus. Columbus Day has been observed on the second Monday of October since 1971. The first …
