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Would Arlington students and staff be safer if the county school system returned to having resource officers from the county police department in its halls?

The final tally among the four contenders for two open School Board seats: One yes, three no.


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Cue Willie Nelson, as Arlington Democrats will be on the road again for the final weekends of campaign season.

The Arlington County Democratic Committee is dispatching volunteers to both North Carolina and Pennsylvania, two battleground states that remain tossups in the presidential race.


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Gerald Ford was in the White House the last time Arlington voters rejected a school bond in a local referendum.

But the two local residents tasked with making sure such ancient history doesn’t repeat itself are taking no chances as they make the case for passage of the 2024 school bond.


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Arlington’s two main political parties are putting the finishing touches on their greet-the-voters strategies.

Democrats plan to staff all 54 county precincts from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, and have had volunteers at early-voting locations since balloting began on Sept. 20.


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With campaign-signs-in-medians season in full bloom across Arlington, one 2024 candidate for local office is standing out from the crowd. And doing so face-first.

Paul Weiss, a former public-school educator who is running as an independent for School Board, is the lone candidate for local office in Arlington this year whose face graces his campaign signs.


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The mystery over what happened to a large memorial wreath designated for placement at President John F. Kennedy’s grave has been solved.

But why it never was put in place at Arlington National Cemetery? That question continues to bedevil researchers.


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Three of four candidates for two open Arlington School Board seats have come out forcefully in favor of an “away-for-the-day” policy for student phone use, with exceptions available in narrow instances.

“School should be phone-free,” Paul Weiss, a retired county educator, said at a Thursday (Oct. 10) candidate forum sponsored by the Arlington Parents for Education (APE) advocacy organizations.


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Arlington County government offices will be open but those in Falls Church, along with the state and federal governments, will be closed this Monday, Oct. 14.

The federal and state governments observe the day as Columbus Day. The state government also marks it as Yorktown Victory Day.


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Falls Church City Council members and staff on Oct. 7 mulled a number of possibilities that could change the way city residents pay for trash collection and recycling.

But with the exception of solid support for expanding the composting part of the program, there seemed enough disagreement on bigger issues for City Council members to push consideration to a later date.


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The Arlington County government’s new auditor already has something of a full plate.

Wayne Scott was appointed to the post just over two months ago, spending his first month gathering information, meeting with top county staff and coordinating a nine-month work schedule (Oct. 1 to June 30).


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