Improvements Coming to Nine County Parks
(Updated at 2:30 p.m.) Arlington County will renovate High View Park and will make improvements to eight other parks following County Board approval of the projects over the weekend. The work...
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Construction Starting on Penrose Square Public Plaza
Construction is getting underway on a new public plaza along Columbia Pike. Fences have gone up around the construction site -- a small grass field in front of the Penrose Square apartment...
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Board Approves Penrose Square Public Plaza -- The Arlington County Board last night formally approved a $2 million public plaza at the Penrose Square apartment complex on Columbia Pike. "This...
Penrose Square to Get $2 Million Public Park
(Updated at 12:40 p.m.) The small grassy field in front of the new Penrose Square apartments on Columbia Pike will likely be transformed into a considerably less grassy, $2 million public plaza over...
Doggone Good Time Planned for Pooches in Park
Looks like Saturday is going to the dogs. Animal lovers will gather at Lacey Woods Park at 1200 N. George Mason Drive for the Dogtober Day dog show. Some categories for the show include Best...
Clarendon/Courthouse Verizon Outage Continues
Hundreds of Verizon landline phone and DSL internet customers in the Clarendon and Courthouse area are still without service today, a week after a contractor taking a soil sample struck several...
Verizon Outage Hits Clarendon/Courthouse Area
(Updated at 8:35 p.m.) Hundreds of Verizon landline phone and DSL internet customers in the Courthouse/Clarendon area may be without service after two underground cables were accidentally...
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Arlington's Biggest Redskins Fanatic -- Charlie Clark has tracked down perhaps the biggest Redskins fan of them all. North Arlington resident Mary Holt, age 87, owns about "1,500 team knickknacks...
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Construction Planned for New Penrose Square Park -- Construction is set to begin on a new public park in front of the Penrose Square apartment building on Columbia Pike. Included in the park will...
Morning Poll: New Clarendon Metro Plaza
(Updated at 10:15 a.m.) Arlington County has released sketches of a planned revamp of the plaza outside the Clarendon Metro station. The project, set to begin construction later this year or early...
Bike/Pedestrian Underpass to Columbia Island Marina Now Open
A bike and pedestrian pathway between the Mt. Vernon Trail and Columbia Island Marina/Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Grove is now open. The pathway opened less than two weeks ago. It runs under...
The Strange History of Freedom Park
Greater Greater Washington ran an interesting article yesterday comparing Rosslyn's Freedom Park to a newer, more well-known elevated urban park -- New York City's High Line. The two are vastly...
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Arlington's Highway Bottlenecks -- An annual report on traffic congestion is out and Arlington has claimed two of the three worst traffic bottlenecks in the region. Westbound I-66 in Arlington,...
Searching for the Bald Eagle
Regular readers of this site may be familiar with these photos of a nesting bald eagle, taken near Spout Run by Flickr pool contributor Philliefan99. The photos sparked a dialogue in the...
Ribbon-Cutting Set for Rosslyn’s Hillside Park
On Saturday afternoon, the Arlington County Parks Department will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recently-reopened Hillside Park in Rosslyn. The county is touting the park as a "sustainable...
