This week was slow at times, news-wise, but next week appears to be shaping up to be more active.
Stay tuned for reporting on a number of important local topics. Oh, and we’ll also have polls, to keep readers engaged through end-of-summer summer vacations and back-to-school preps.
In the meantime, below are the most-read stories of the past week — excluding Friday night’s Four Courts coverage.
- Quick-thinking customers and first responders helped to save lives
- It’s Advanced vs. Amazon after delivery van towed from Buckingham apartments
- Seven lesser-known features of this week’s Arlington County Fair
- New membership program launches at several Arlington bars, providing beers and pizza slices
- Still unclear what led to fiery crash, but Four Courts hopes to rebuild
- Morning Poll: How big of a problem is cut-through traffic in Arlington?
- The $38 million overhaul of the new Washington-Liberty annex is nearly complete
- A volunteer firefighter at a going-away party helped to save lives at Ireland’s Four Courts
- UPDATED: Search for man with weapon closes roads in Lyon Park
- Police investigating gunshots fired in Green Valley
- Noisy utility covers that have annoyed neighbors in Ballston for years could get finally fixed
- ACPD investigating pair of retail robberies and a car wash gun brandishing
Speaking of Four Courts, here’s some late-breaking news from the pub, which is hoping to reopen in a limited capacity, presumably utilizing the rear section of the business that was not damaged.
Four Courts “hoping to reopen in some capacity in the short-term” https://t.co/kIGWuZqhPW
— Arlington Now (@ARLnowDOTcom) August 19, 2022
Feel free to discuss these stories or anything else of local interest in the comments. Have a great weekend, Arlington!
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