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Wakefield Advances to 'It's Academic' Championship -- The Wakefield High School 'It's Academic' team was a runner-up in the Northern Region tournament and is advancing to the state championship...

Library Requesting High School Yearbook Donations

(Updated at 3:25 p.m.) If you attended high school in Arlington, you have something in common with Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Katie Couric and Sandra Bullock. All are immortalized in yearbooks...

Another Crash Near Claremont Traffic Circle

Less than seven months after a car ran into his house in the Claremont neighborhood, Patrick Lee is dealing with a similar problem. Somebody hit his car overnight, likely while trying to speed...

Gas Leak Reported at Wakefield High School

Update at 11:10 a.m. -- The leak has been traced to the construction site where the new Wakefield High School is being built. Students are expected to be let back into the school shortly. The...

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Wakefield Loses Full Accreditation -- Wakefield High School was the only Arlington County public school that failed to receive full state accreditation this year. The school was accredited...

Events Planned to Commemorate 9/11 Anniversary

While the softball tournament was canceled due to soggy fields, all other events planned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are still on for this weekend, rain or...

Groundbreaking for New Wakefield High School

(Updated at 4:15 p.m.) School officials, County Board members and other local dignitaries donned helmets and shovels to help break ground on the new, $118 million Wakefield High School...

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Wakefield Groundbreaking Today -- At 9:30 this morning Arlington Public Schools officials will hold a groundbreaking for the new, $116 million Wakefield High School. Construction on the school is...

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Report on BRAC Impacts -- With the Base Realignment and Closure Act-mandated relocation of Defense Department offices delayed, BRAC's impact on Arlington County will be eased considerably,...

Prom-Bound Wakefield Students Learn About DUI Risks

Wakefield High School held its annual Prom Promise anti-drunk-driving event today, but it was a bit different than years past. Instead of a large indoor assembly with PowerPoint slides, a...

Car Crashes into House in Claremont

A Toyota Camry somehow hopped a curb, smashed a small stone wall and hit the side of a house in the Claremont neighborhood this afternoon. The crash happened near the traffic circle at the...

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Tax Rate Hearing Sparsely Attended -- Compared to the three-hour, 75-speaker bonanza that was the March 22 budget hearing, last night's County Board tax rate hearing was an intimate, low-key...

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New Bar Coming to Columbia Pike -- William Jeffrey's Tavern will be a 6,500 square foot bar and restaurant on the ground floor of the Siena Park apartment complex, across the street from Bob...

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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,...

Obama, Australian PM Visit Wakefield High School

(Updated at 1:15 p.m.) President Obama, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Wakefield High School today. Obama and Gillard "discussed...