"One Community, One Family" during construction.

More than 1,100 students walked into Langston Hughes Middle School in Reston shortly after 7 a.m., Monday, Aug. 26. Principal Aimee Monticchio stood near the Main Office trailer. She welcomed the seventh and eighth graders as they exited buses and walked down a pathway rimmed with orange and white jersey barriers and tall chain link fencing. Even with the construction noise and the rumbling of cement mixers nearby, no one missed Monticchio's cheerful greetings. "Good morning, glad to see you," she called out. Read the full story on The Reston Connection.