Week in Review: Burglaries in Fairfax, School Board Adopts Budget, New Annandale Patch Features and More

If you've had a busy week and haven't had a chance to check Annandale Patch much, don't fret. Here's a summary of the bigger stories on the site this week.

Fairfax County police are looking into a that have occurred in three districts which they think may be connected another serial burglar. Many of the more than a hundred cats rescued from an Annandale home on Village Drive in November 2010 are now up for adoption and the Fairfax County Shelter is hosting a for them. And in a tough game, the Annandale Atoms lost to Woodson High School in the very last seconds of the game.

On Thursday, the Fairfax County School Board that would get rid of foreign language in elementary schools for the next school year. That same night, they also that didn't receive support from all members of the board. 

We rolled out a few new features on the site this week that we hope you'll enjoy. At the end of every day, we'll post a daily video highlighting some of the biggest stories in the Northern Virginia area as reported by Patch sites called . We renamed our weekend open houses to and posted it on Thursday. Our weekend preview will now be posted on Thursdays under the title . Because we know there are many local places to dine at in and around our area, we've launched and plan to introduce to a few well-known and some lesser known eateries.

Every week, we'll also compose a gallery of photos called the of events in Annandale and just shots of residents out and about in our neighborhood. Our is the last of the new features we introduced this week. Every week, we'll bring you a list of suggestions or information that the editor picks or that you pick. We invite you to suggest a list to us! If there's something you want more information about or know of something we should alert the community to, leave us some feedback!