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ARLnow Daily Debrief for Sep 26, 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 26, 2025.

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

  1. BREAKING: Driver killed, officer seriously hurt in crash that shut down northbound I-395 (21471 views)
  2. Woman hospitalized after being struck by falling tree branch on trail (12724 views)
  3. APS had second-best test scores in N. Va. last school year, trailing Loudoun County (8646 views)
  4. ACPD: Man chased woman through Rosslyn, stole her phone (6720 views)
  5. Tatte plans mid-October opening in Falls Church (6400 views)
  6. JUST IN: Whole Foods is opening in Crystal City next month (5365 views)
  7. Close call: video shows scooter rider narrowly avoiding crash (5034 views)
  8. Two Ballston Starbucks locations are closing this week amid nationwide changes (6053 views)
  9. Man seriously injured in Crystal City after refusing to give up backpack (4971 views)
  10. White House budget office tells agencies to draft mass firing plans ahead of potential shutdown (4182 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 possible before 11am, followed by potential showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 2pm, and likely showers with a possible thunderstorm after 2pm. Expect a cloudy day with a high around 75 and an east wind of 3 to 6 mph. There’s a 60% chance of precipitation, with new rainfall amounts under a tenth of an inch, barring higher amounts during thunderstorms. Saturday night may see showers, primarily before 2am, patchy fog, and cloudy conditions with a low of around 65 and a northeast wind of 3 to 5 mph. There’s a 60% chance of precipitation, and new rainfall amounts could measure between a half and three quarters of an inch. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– 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! 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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