It’s always a good idea to wear your seatbelt, but it’s incrementally more of a no brainer today.
Arlington County police are participating in the national Click It or Ticket campaign starting today. The campaign “combines powerful messages about seat belt safety with high-visibility enforcement for unbuckled motorists.”
County Considers Developer Deal — “Under the proposal – which emanated from county staff, not the project’s development team – the county government would receive access four times per year to 37th-level facilities at The Key (the site formerly occupied by the Holiday Inn Rosslyn). Under previous agreements, public access would have been made available to an eighth-floor space.” [Gazette Leader]
Capital for Courthouse Company — “The Arlington IT consulting firm Excella has taken on a private equity investment for the first time in its over two-decade history and intends to use the proceeds to advance its artificial intelligence-based capabilities.” [DC Inno]
Funding for Intersection Study — “On Wednesday, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board awarded a total of $480,000 to fund short-term consultant assistance for projects in six localities in the DMV.. Arlington County was awarded $80,000 in RRSP funding for the S. George Mason Drive and S. Four Mile Run Drive Intersection Alternatives Analysis.” [Patch]
Update on AIM Budget — “The audit has been moving along steadily, and is still active but we have not been given information on when a report may arrive. Once we have the data needed, finalizing the budget draft and making it accessible to the community will be swift.” [Arlington Independent Media]
Pearl Harbor Sailor Laid to Rest — “More than 80 years after his death, Frank Hryniewicz was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on May 16, in Arlington, Va. Hryniewicz, 20, was aboard the USS Oklahoma when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His remains were identified in 2019 thanks to a military DNA profiling project.” [Honolulu Star-Advertiser]
APS Governor’s School Students — “Congratulations to the following students who were accepted to the Summer Residential Governor’s School and World Language Academies.” [Arlington Public Schools]
Local Farms for Produce Picking — “Sure, you can get most fruit and vegetables year-round, but there’s nothing quite like picking your own right from the ground or off the tree. Strawberry crops are abundant in May, but strawberry fields aren’t forever. That’s OK, though, because coming in June are more berries, cherries, peas and tomatoes at farms within about an hour’s drive from Arlington.” [Arlington Magazine]
Profiling Post-HQ2 Housing Efforts — “Thousands of highly paid workers threatened to overturn the housing market, which was already hot thanks to a host of secondary and tertiary federal government industries around the Washington, D.C. region. But the company’s Housing Equity Fund is helping to mitigate its workforce’s effects on the nation’s geographically smallest county.” [NACo]
YHS Girls Lax in Regional Tourney — “The next big lacrosse tournament for the Yorktown Patriots is the ongoing 6D North Region competition that the girls high-school team wants to win for the first time to complete a full set of postseason championships. The Patriots already have won two Liberty District tourney crowns, this spring and in 2022.” [Gazette Leader]
It’s Monday — Today’s weather will transition from mostly cloudy to sunny, reaching a high near 78. Monday night expect patchy fog developing after 5am, but otherwise remaining mostly clear with a low around 59. [NWS]
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A man was shot and critically injured in a hotel parking lot in Courthouse early Sunday morning.
The shooting happened just before 3 a.m. on the 1200 block of N. Courthouse Road, according to Arlington County police, and as of Sunday afternoon the victim remains in critical condition at a local hospital.
We’re about a month out from summer. That means you’ve still got time for spring cleaning!
Lexi Grant, an operations manager at Well-Paid Maids, shared her go-to spring cleaning tips with WTOP News. Step one? Declutter. Get rid of items you don’t use, find space for items that need a home and organize those areas.
Showers on Saturday. High near 62. East wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Saturday Night, a chance of showers, mainly before 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 57. East wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. See more from Weather.gov.
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Streetscape upgrades may be coming to busy intersections along George Mason Drive and S. Carlin Springs Road.
A $1.7 million contract for improved sidewalks and better traffic signals is slated to go before the Arlington County Board on Saturday. Under consideration are the intersections of S. Carlin Springs at 3rd Street S. and Arlington Blvd at N./S. George Mason Drive.
I love Burgundy. And this one checks all the boxes and more. It’s “Extremely Well-Made” and “Super Affordable.” Rarely, when talking about Burgundy, are these two phrases used in the same sentence.
Popeyes is making its triumphant return and a regional dumpling eatery is expanding with another Arlington outpost.
Those are the latest additions to the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City. The mall just announced that both Popeyes and Dumpling District will be opening in the food court “early this summer.”
Swanson Middle School was briefly evacuated this morning due to a structure fire near the school.
A shed behind a house on the 1100 block of N. Lexington Street caught fire and was fully engulfed by the time firefighters arrived, shortly before 9 a.m.