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Published March 15, 2018 at 8:45AM | Updated March 15, 2018 at 9:08AM

ATS Parents Peeved About Overcrowding — Arlington Traditional School parents are protesting the addition of classes and relocatable classrooms to the already-overcrowded school. [Arlington Connection]

Alliterative Pothole Patching Update — Via Arlington’s Dept. of Environmental Services: “Punctilious, present pothole people have plugged 500-plus problems post-2017 but prefer a plethora for practice. Please provide. http://topics.arlingtonva.us/reportproblem or call 703-228-6570.” [Twitter]

News

Crime Report: BB Gun Bandit in Nauck

By ARLnow.com

Published March 14, 2018 at 1:45PM | Updated February 28, 2020 at 10:36AM

File photo

The incident happened Wednesday night along S. Shirlington Road. Police responded to a parking lot for a report of gunshots. They arrived and found a vehicle damaged by BBs, but the suspect had already fled and could not be located.

More from this week’s Arlington County Police Department crime report:

Feature

Arlington Pet of the Week: Finley

By ARLnow.com

Published March 14, 2018 at 12:45PM | Updated July 18, 2019 at 11:42AM

This week’s Arlington Pet of the Week is Finley, a 5-month-old mixed breed puppy rescued from Mississippi who likes snuggling and digging.

Here is what his owner, Holly, had to say:

Schools

Students Walk Out of School to Protest Gun Violence

By ARLnow.com

Published March 14, 2018 at 11:05AM | Updated March 14, 2018 at 12:09PM

Washington-Lee student walkout on March 14

(Updated at 12:05 p.m.) Students at Arlington’s high schools walked out of class Wednesday morning to protest gun violence in the wake of the Parkland, Florida mass school shooting.

The 10 a.m. walkout was planned nationally, on the one month anniversary of the shooting, and in Arlington it was the second such protest in as many months. Washington-Lee, Yorktown, Wakefield, Langston and H-B Woodlawn were among the schools participating. Students at Kenmore Middle School also walked out, according to the school’s Twitter account.

News

Morning Notes

By ARLnow.com

Published March 14, 2018 at 9:00AM | Updated March 14, 2018 at 9:24AM

School Walkouts Today — Student walkouts are planned at Arlington’s high schools today, part of a national demonstration against gun violence. The walkout is happening at 10 a.m., is expected to last 17 minutes, and is being treated as an excused absence by Arlington Public Schools. Middle schoolers at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, meanwhile, have organized a 2:30 p.m. prayer service to honor the victims.

JBG Talks HQ2 in Quarterly Earnings — Property owner JBG Smith has stayed largely mum about its wooing of Amazon — until now. In its quarterly earnings report, JBG said it believes that its Crystal City properties are well-positioned to win the bid for Amazon’s second headquarters. The D.C. area’s tech prowess “combined with our blend of walkable places, in-place infrastructure and low-cost housing makes Crystal City a compelling location,” the company wrote. “Our holdings alone can accommodate Amazon’s entire long-term space requirement and we have a cost advantage over our competitors given the existing in-place parking and substantial infrastructure.” [Washington Business Journal]

News

‘Heavy Fire Damage’ at Virginia Square Office Building

By ARLnow.com

Published March 13, 2018 at 11:00PM | Updated March 13, 2018 at 11:23PM

Fire at 933 N. Kenmore Street (photo via ACFD)

A two-alarm fire scorched the top floor of a small office building in Virginia Square tonight (Tuesday).

A passerby called 911 just after 7:45 p.m. to report flames and smoke coming from the building at 933 N. Kenmore Street. The blaze was extinguished thanks to an “aggressive attack” by firefighters, according to Arlington County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Ben O’Bryant, but not before causing “heavy fire damage on the fourth floor.”

Around Town

Tortoise and Hare Has Closed in Crystal City

By ARLnow.com

Published March 13, 2018 at 6:55PM

Tortoise and Hare closed in Crystal City

A decade-old Crystal City bar scene stalwart has closed its doors.

Tortoise and Hare Bar and Grill, at 567 23rd Street S., served its last customers on Wednesday, Feb. 28. In a Facebook post, the bar said it had been trying to find a buyer but it was unable to come to an agreement before its lease expired at the end of February.

Around Town

New Restaurants Coming to West End of Clarendon

By ARLnow.com

Published March 13, 2018 at 3:00PM

New restaurants along Washington Blvd

A trio of new restaurants are coming to the western edge of Clarendon, just across Washington Blvd from Northside Social.

Demolition permits have been issued for “Le Kon,” which is coming to the large restaurant space at 3227 Washington Blvd vacated by the short-lived Park Lane Tavern. It’s unclear what exactly Le Kon will be, though it is listed vaguely as a “Casual Dining, Fine Dining, Bar / Lounge” establishment on the restaurant hiring website Culinary Agents.

Around Town

Red Top Has Moved Cab Maintenance to Falls Church

By ARLnow.com

Published March 13, 2018 at 10:55AM | Updated March 13, 2018 at 11:15AM

Red Top Cab maintenance facility in Clarendon (file photo)

The long-time Red Top Cab maintenance facility in Clarendon is now idle.

No longer are taxicabs busy coming and going from the facility, which is located along N. Hudson Street, just back from Clarendon’s main strip of bars. The facility’s parking lot, meanwhile, is largely empty.

News

Morning Notes

By ARLnow.com

Published March 13, 2018 at 10:00AM

Amazon Could Change Conversation — If Amazon were to establish its second headquarters in the D.C. area, it could have wide-ranging effects, including tightening the commercial real estate market and easing antitrust pressures on the company. Writes the Economist: “Having 50,000 employees going to the same country clubs and putting children in the same schools as government officials is a shrewd strategy if Amazon wants to fend off government attacks.” [Washington Business Journal, The Economist]

One Hospitalized During Hazmat Incident — An employee at a catering business was hospitalized after a reported chemical spill at a warehouse along Four Mile Run Drive. [Twitter]

Around Town

Video: Chainsaw Artist at Work at Oakgrove Park

By ARLnow.com

Published March 13, 2018 at 9:15AM

Andrew Mallon carving a tree at Oakgrove Park (photo via YouTube)

When a grand old oak tree died just prior to construction on an improvement project at Oakgrove Park, landscape architect Kathy von Bredow knew what she had to do.

Around Town

New Coffee Shop Appears to Be Coming to Clarendon

By ARLnow.com

Published March 12, 2018 at 4:30PM | Updated March 12, 2018 at 5:29PM

A new coffee shop is coming to Clarendon, according to a building permit application.

The coffee shop will be located at the corner of Wilson Blvd and N. Garfield Street and, according to the permit application, will be just over 1,000 square feet. Few other details were immediately available.