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ARLnow Daily Debrief for Sep 20, 2024

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 — Sep 20, 2024.

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

  1. UPDATED: Police looking for four suspects after man shot in Ballston (76267 views)
  2. Teen charged after driving into 7-Eleven store and seriously injuring woman (21365 views)
  3. ACPD: Man beaten and seriously injured after late night honk (17303 views)
  4. JUST IN: Amazon going back to five days a week in office (12848 views)
  5. Annual Clarendon Day street festival returning next week (7137 views)
  6. Feedback sought on 1,515-unit RiverHouse development plan in Pentagon City (5629 views)
  7. ACPD: Intoxicated shoplifter fought officer inside Clarendon Metro station (4659 views)
  8. Arlington accepts $20.7M for work on new Crystal City Metro entrance (4360 views)
  9. Free movie nights coming to Pentagon City this fall (4034 views)
  10. ACPD motorcycle officer injured in crash (3669 views)
  11. Early voting starts in Arlington this week: Who’s running and how to cast your vote (3456 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

Showers are possible between 2pm and 5pm, with an increased chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Expect mostly sunny skies, a high near 82, and south winds of 3-7 mph. On Saturday night, showers and thunderstorms are likely between 8pm and 2am with mostly cloudy skies, a low of around 65, and southeast winds at 6 mph. Precipitation chances are 30% during the day and 60% at night. New rainfall amounts may range from a tenth to a quarter-inch, with higher amounts in thunderstorms. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

🌅 Tonight’s sunset

The MonumentCam screenshot above is used with permission of the Trust for the National Mall and courtesy of EarthCam.

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. 👋

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