Author: Dan Egitto

Dan Egitto is an editor and reporter at ARLnow. Originally from Central Florida, he graduated from Duke University and previously reported at the Palatka Daily News in Florida and the Vallejo Times-Herald in California. Dan joined ARLnow in January 2024.

Schools

APS warns of phishing emails pretending to come from school system

By Dan Egitto
The Arlington Public Schools Syphax Education Center (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Arlington Public Schools is warning families to beware of fraudulent emails that use the school system’s branding to collect people’s personal information.

The emails ask recipients to click a link and provide usernames, passwords and other information, APS said in a message to families yesterday (Thursday). They are not real APS communications, but they use the APS logo and may appear to come from the school system.

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News

Teen suspect accused of shooting into parked vehicle near Courthouse

By Dan Egitto
File photo

An 18-year-old Arlington resident was arrested yesterday (Thursday) after allegedly firing a gun into a parked vehicle near Courthouse in late December.

The suspect is accused of firing “several shots” around 12:40 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 27, near the intersection of 13th Street N. and N. Taft Street in the Radnor/Fort Myer Heights neighborhood. Someone inside the car then returned fire and drove offf, according to police.

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News

Arlington loses Boeing’s defense HQ to St. Louis

By Dan Egitto
Boeing HQ in Crystal City (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Boeing’s Defense, Space and Security headquarters is leaving Crystal City after nine years.

The aerospace and defense company announced the move Wednesday, citing a desire to be “present and engaged with teammates who are designing, producing and delivering vital defense and space products and capabilities.” The St. Louis region is home to about 18,000 Boeing employees.

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News

Three men sentenced for roles in hundreds of airbag thefts in N. Va.

By Dan Egitto
Airbag stolen from vehicle at the Dorchester Towers apartments on Columbia Pike in 2022 (courtesy photo)

Three men have been sentenced to prison over a conspiracy to steal hundreds of airbags across Northern Virginia.

Alexandria resident Adisorn Damrongchai and Chinese national Yuchen Zhang were found guilty of nabbing airbags in Virginia and selling them to a third conspirator, Severn, Md., resident Keith William Smith, beginning in August 2022. 

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News

Don’t flush so-called ‘flushable’ wipes, county warns after nearby sewage overflow

By Dan Egitto
A wad of wipes that clogged a sewage pipe (via DC Water)

Just because a wipe says it’s “flushable,” that doesn’t mean it’s fit for Arlington’s sewage system.

That’s what the county’s Department of Environmental Services is reminding residents after a wad of wipes contributed to a sewage overflow last week at a ruptured sewage pipe upstream from Arlington on the Potomac River.

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Events

Feel the Heritage Festival returns this weekend with performances and food

By Dan Egitto
A past Feel the Heritage Festival (via Arlington County Parks and Recreation/Instagram)

Arlington’s annual Feel the Heritage Festival is returning this weekend, bringing dozens of vendors, performers and history displays in celebration of Black History Month.

The 31st annual festival, taking place from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Charles Drew Community Center (3500 23rd Street S.), celebrates the national theme of this Black History Month, “A Century of Black History Commemoration.”

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Around Town

Columbia Pike museum brings centuries of Black Arlingtonians’ struggles and triumphs to life

By Dan Egitto
Entrance display at the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington (staff photo by Savannah Taffe)

The Black Heritage Museum of Arlington honors a history spotlighted by iconic figures like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth but clouded with decades of discrimination and ongoing displacement.

Tracing Black Arlington communities’ roots back to the construction of Arlington House in the early 1800s, following them up through the establishment of vibrant communities in the aftermath of the Civil War, and tracking residents’ ongoing contributions and struggles with affordability, the museum at 3045 Columbia Pike offers a portal into an often overlooked history.

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News

New ‘innovation district’ in National Landing promotes business, defense partnerships

By Dan Egitto
The Crystal City and Pentagon City skyline (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

A new “innovation district” seeking to promote public-private partnerships has launched in Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard.

The National Innovation Quarter, or “National IQ,” promises “to solve the most pressing challenges at the intersection of national competitiveness and technology,” according to a press release.

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Schools

APS students plan walkout in protest of ICE next week

By Dan Egitto
Anti-ICE demonstrators rally in Courthouse on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2025 (staff photo by Dan Egitto)

A walkout in protest of immigration enforcement is in the works next week at several Arlington Public Schools facilities.

It’s unclear how large or widespread it will be, although tipsters have said action is planned at all major high schools in Arlington on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 1:30 p.m., as well as some middle schools at a later time that afternoon.

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News

Proposed towers at Key Bridge Marriott site would reshape Rosslyn’s skyline, public space

By Dan Egitto
Conceptual renderings of the proposed Potomac Overlook project at 1401 Langston Blvd (courtesy of Quadrangle Development Corporation)

Six proposed towers on an undeveloped plot of land in Rosslyn could bring a significant shift to the neighborhood’s character.

Plans for the Potomac Overlook development call for public space in about two-thirds of a vacant 5.5-acre lot at 1401 Langston Blvd — acting as “an extension” of neighboring Gateway Park, Chris Gladstone, president of D.C.-based Quadrangle Development Corporation, told ARLnow.

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News

Arlington attorney who prosecuted Trump announces campaign for Congress

By Dan Egitto
Congressional candidate and former federal prosecutor J.P. Cooney (courtesy of J.P. Cooney)

An Arlington native and former federal prosecutor who investigated President Donald Trump is running for Congress.

J.P. Cooney — who served as a top deputy for special counsel Jack Smith’s office in two criminal prosecutions against Trump, before the president fired him in January 2025 — announced his candidacy today (Wednesday).

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News

Crystal City Metro station closed for construction this weekend

By Dan Egitto
The Crystal City Metro station in 2018 (staff photo)

Travelers heading south to Reagan National Airport should budget extra time this weekend because the Crystal City Metro station will be closed.

The station will be closed from Saturday, Feb. 14, through Monday, Feb. 16, in the first of 10 weekend closures between now and June.

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