What’s up with this site? Things tend to slow down during the winter. I’ve noticed this for a few years now. Oak Hill is in general a pretty quiet community. Cold weather keeps people inside. Crime goes down in the winter as well. I’ve monitored the various police reports and very typically there is nothing to report inside Oak Hill itself, just sometimes on the periphery of Oak Hill in Reston, Herndon and Chantilly.

The good news is that based on my monitoring Oak Hill is truly one of the safest communities you can possibly live in. Even minor vandalism rarely occurs. Southern parts of Oak Hill fall under the Fair Oaks police station, which rarely has any events of note. Many weeks pass with no major incidents reported. Northern parts fall under Reston where the same is true. Herndon has its own police department of course, because it is a town, but I try to confine relevant news to Oak Hill if possible, or on its immediate edges otherwise since many Oak Hill communities touch these neighborhoods.

Community associations are also often silent during the winter, or have content behind firewalls, indicating not much is happening as well. There are events at Frying Pan Park, which I check for and post periodically. Most church and school web sites are also scanned, but only rarely have events of interest to the community.

So if things are happening, one of the best ways to get the news out is to send me an email. I have owned the domain since 2000, and still feel a community web site has potential. It needs your input. So if you are a newshound and have appropriate news articles to post, they can be posted through me or, if you are trusted, I can set up an account and allow you to submit them yourself.

Posts are relatively infrequent, in part because there is not much publicly accessible content for Oak Hill, but also because I try to keep a tight community focus.

I expect as warmer weather returns you will be seeing more posts on this site.