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.
Voting in the Democratic and Republican primaries is underway in Arlington today (Tuesday).
About 1.1% of voters had cast ballots in person as of 9 a.m., according to the Arlington Elections Office.
A government contractor has graduated from a coworking space in Ballston to its own office down the street.
Cynnovative, a former tenant of the Industrious at 4075 Wilson Blvd, has moved two blocks away into a “fully furnished, turnkey office space” at 3865 Wilson Blvd, according to a press release.
Construction at the former Macy’s in Ballston has been moving forward roughly on schedule, with a new apartment building expected to accept tenants next year.
The 553-unit project at 685 N. Glebe Road is planning for its first move-ins in the third quarter of 2027, a spokesperson for developer Insight Property Group told ARLnow.
Yorktown High School is getting a new principal after six and a half years.
Bridget Loft, formerly the Swanson Middle School principal, will be taking the helm at Yorktown from Principal Kevin Clark. She is returning to a position that she previously held from 2017 to January 2020, when Clark took over.
Arlington County is just a few years out from realizing its dream of turning residents’ solid waste into natural gas and consumer-grade fertilizer.
Arlington Re-Gen, a long-awaited upgrade to the county’s wastewater treatment process, is expected to begin producing a product known as “Class A biosolids” by late 2030 or early 2031 — providing more opportunities for the second life of Arlington residents’ No. 2.
A man and his goats set up camp in Arlington last night, nearing the end of a long and somewhat peculiar sojourn across much of the country.
By foot and by hoof, a man known as Jacob Holiday and his livestock have been traveling this way for a long time. Holiday told Midwest Media in November that they’d been on the road for years, traveling from Minnesota to spread a message of peace and love.
Police are investigating a series of burglaries and attempted burglaries that took place in two neighborhoods near Rosslyn over the weekend.
A male suspect is described as entering or trying to enter at least six homes and rummaging through belongings. Police say he stole a wallet and keys on one occasion, but in most cases, no items were reported stolen, according to preliminary incident reports.
Two suspects, one of them a former Prince George’s County police officer, have been arrested following an Arlington auto fraud investigation.
The investigation spanned over a year, the Arlington County Police Department said in a press release today (Tuesday). Officers allege that both suspects, former police officer Sierra Alston and Renaldo Gaines, “conspired to steal vehicles, acquire stolen vehicles and subsequently alter those vehicles’ VINs to disguise them from detection.”
A local FM radio station is preparing to come back on the air following a lengthy break.
WERA 96.7 has been seeking to resume broadcasting today (Tuesday) after going dark in July 2025. A new licensee, Radio Arlington, took the reins from now-defunct Arlington Independent Media and has been resolving some final logistics and technical issues to meet an imminent deadline.
Gunshots were fired over the weekend following a dispute at a basketball court in Long Branch Creek, police say.
The Arlington County Police Department responded to a report of gunshots shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday, according to a preliminary incident report.
A large-scale redevelopment project at the site of a Rosslyn parking garage that featured in the Watergate scandal was approved with robust support from Arlington officials.
The County Board unanimously voted in favor of the 831-unit project at 1401 Wilson Blvd and 1400 Key Blvd, which will feature two 27-story residential towers, 602 parking spaces and 29,000 square feet of retail, including a grocery store.
Police have arrested a suspect following a bank robbery in Crystal City yesterday (Tuesday).
The suspect, Brian Frances, 36, is accused of robbing the Bank of America at 1425 S. Eads Street, across from Amazon’s HQ2, around 12:20 p.m.
