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ARLnow Daily Debrief for Dec 15, 2023

By ARLnow.com

Good Friday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.

🕗 News recap

The following articles were published earlier today — Dec 15, 2023.

Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.

  1. This Arlington restaurant was just named No. 1 in Virginia by Washingtonian readers (75591 views)
  2. Two Arlington spots made the Post’s new top 10 casual restaurants list (24090 views)
  3. BREAKING: Governor to make a ‘remarkable’ announcement in Potomac Yard amid Caps and Wiz arena reports (18856 views)
  4. NOW: Large response to house fire near Arlington border in McLean (16508 views)
  5. Police investigating ‘suspicious’ incident at local middle school (15841 views)
  6. What the Capitals’ move to Potomac Yard could mean for its Ballston practice facility and an at-grade Route 1 (13617 views)
  7. Van Leeuwen ice cream shop and Tatte café among six new businesses looking to open in Crystal City (9309 views)
  8. Arlington doctor convicted of illicit distribution of more than 1 million opioid pills (9144 views)
  9. Morning Poll: Will you go to more Caps and Wiz games in Alexandria? (8867 views)
  10. Fundraiser underway for family of man who died in Chain Bridge Forest fire (8419 views)
  11. Police investigating armed robbery, shots fired incidents (7114 views)

📅 Upcoming events

Here is what’s going on Saturday in Arlington, from our event calendar.

Here are the events planned for Sunday:

☀️ Saturday’s forecast

Expect a mostly sunny day with a high temperature near 54°F, accompanied by light and variable wind that becomes east around 6 mph in the afternoon. On Saturday night, there’s a slight chance of rain after 1am and it will be mostly cloudy with a low temperature around 40°F. The east wind will blow at 3-7 mph, and the chance of precipitation is 20%. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

🌅 Tonight’s sunset

We hope you have a great weekend, Arlington! Feel free to discuss the most-read stories of the week, the upcoming weekend events or anything else of local interest in the comments. 👋