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A new Arlington Historical Society exhibition looks at the life and legacy of what may have been Arlington’s first Chinese-inspired restaurant.

“The Family Tea House: Where Culture and Cuisine Met in Arlington” delves into the story of Family Tea House, the dishes it offered and the role it played in a brief but important episode in Virginia’s civil rights movement.


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New summer school programs at Arlington Public Schools are hoping to find success where other efforts have fallen short.

Two new pilot programs are meant to help measure the impact of different learning models — and perhaps improve on mediocre results from summer school programs in 2024.


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Arlington officials have no authority to regulate how state or federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, conduct local operations, legal staff say.

This includes whether or not ICE officers wear masks while detaining people.


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Falls Church is considering changes to trash and recycling services, but city leaders say a voter referendum is unlikely.

The changes could decrease the financial burden on some property owners while increasing fees for single-family homeowners.


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The cost of funding Metro service may be one of the issues taking center stage in this year’s race for Arlington County Board.

The five candidates on the Nov. 4 ballot have a variety of competing views on how much, if any, additional local funding should be provided for regional transit service.


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Arlington Public Schools ended the 2024-25 school year with nearly a quarter-million dollars in uncollected debt for student meals.

School Board members authorized the transfer of $248,523 in funding to cover the shortfall on Thursday. Of that total, about 80% was from students who have graduated, while the remainder was from students classified as inactive, according to a staff report.


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A freeze on federal education dollars cast $1.5 million in Arlington Public Schools funding into doubt.

This was the amount of funding at APS that the U.S. Department of Education withheld for weeks as part of a review to ensure that spending aligned with the White House’s priorities.


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Members of the Arlington Planning Commission, who currently work without financial compensation, could eventually start getting paid.

Although posts on the commission are unpaid by longstanding tradition, given the time and effort the job requires, that might change someday.


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The next Falls Church City Council will be the one to decide whether some City advisory panels need to be merged or disbanded.

“This would be a big effort. Even getting rid of one is going to have all kinds of psychological weight associated with it,” City Manager Wyatt Shields acknowledged when the proposal to consider changes to advisory boards and commissions came up at meeting last week.


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The Arlington County Board approved five lower speed limits and delivered salutes to an outgoing county attorney and organizations promoting disability awareness this week.

This is in addition to actions related to new development and office-building conversions. Barring something unexpected, the July 22 meeting represents the last public gathering for the Board until mid-September.


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If you don’t like the way the County Board conducts public-comment sessions, come up with an alternative proposal.

That was the message from Board Chair Takis Karantonis on July 19, as the governing body again received criticism for limiting speakers at public-comment sessions to one per topic.


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