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ARLnow Daily Debrief for Sep 19, 2025

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 — Sep 19, 2025.

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

  1. UPDATED: Body found in wooded area near Columbia Pike (62091 views)
  2. Arlington’s oldest elementary school celebrates its 100th birthday this Friday (10678 views)
  3. Caps hosting charity ‘garage sale’ at Ballston’s Iceplex this weekend (9802 views)
  4. Chalk messages at Arlington home of top White House official strike a nerve with GOP heavyweights (8825 views)
  5. County Board approves one redevelopment in Clarendon, defers another near Rosslyn (6378 views)
  6. Former Vice President Mike Pence joins faculty at GMU (6180 views)
  7. ‘Simply Banh Mi’ flourishes in Ballston after unexpected relocation (5375 views)
  8. County Board considers ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in Arlington (5098 views)
  9. Increased police presence coming to local high school after ‘non-credible’ bomb threat (5057 views)
  10. Clarendon Day returns this month with over 150 vendors and booths (3943 views)
  11. Two more suspects accused of arson after apartment fire near Columbia Pike (3903 views)
  12. Terminal 1 rebuild at Reagan National looks to clear key hurdle in 2026 (3324 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 mostly sunny skies with a high temperature close to 78 and a northeast breeze of 8 mph. As the night progresses, clouds will increase, lowering the temperature to approximately 63 with an eastern wind blowing at about 7 mph. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

🌅 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! If you have something to say about an issue of local note not covered today, feel free to post it as a letter to the editor on our new forum. 👋

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