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ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jul 11, 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 — Jul 11, 2025.

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

  1. Construction on Long Bridge rail project begins later this month over the Potomac (20636 views)
  2. Arlington rent rose again in June, remaining priciest outside of California (12965 views)
  3. Poll: The best barbecue restaurant in Arlington (10621 views)
  4. JUST IN: Another Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Arlington and D.C. area, amid flood threat (7390 views)
  5. BREAKING: Flash Flood Warning issued for Arlington and Falls Church (7340 views)
  6. Speed limits could drop from 25 to 20 mph on some Arlington roads (6862 views)
  7. Arlington entrepreneurs debut new party boat with catering from District Taco (6311 views)
  8. Appeals court flip-flops on Missing Middle, striking down ordinance once again (6265 views)
  9. Man sentenced to 15 years in prison after Arlington cocaine bust (5870 views)
  10. ACPD: Man, 70, arrested for knifing acquaintance on Columbia Pike (5294 views)
  11. Morning Notes for July 7, 2025 (4601 views)
  12. Fleet of laser-equipped robots begins survey of Arlington sidewalks (5006 views)
  13. ‘One Rosslyn’ development project wins commission’s support but new skywalk does not (4197 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 and thunderstorms are possible after 2pm, under mostly sunny skies with a high near 91 degrees. The calm wind will shift to southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon, with a 30% chance of precipitation. For Saturday evening, the chance of showers and thunderstorms remains at 30%, mainly before 8pm. The night will be partly cloudy and the low will be around 74 degrees, with southeast winds ranging from 3 to 6 mph. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

🌅 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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  • Launched in January 2010, ARLnow.com is the place for the latest news, views and things to do around Arlington, Virginia. The ARLnow staff byline is used for the Morning Notes and reporting done by an editor or other member of our full-time staff.