Schools

The $38 million overhaul of the new Washington-Liberty annex is nearly complete

By Matt Blitz
The newly renovated Washington-Liberty High School annex (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

The $38 million transformation of the Washington-Liberty annex is nearly complete.

Over the last three years, the nearly six-decade-old Arlington Education Center has undergone a complete overhaul to turn it into classrooms and school space for the burgeoning student body. This is the most significant renovation in the history of the building, which was completed in 1969 and previously used as the Arlington Public Schools headquarters. (The APS administrative offices are now located at Sequoia Plaza.)

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Sponsored

Help us at FireWorks find a new brand name for our Arlington store

By Andrew Lewis
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Hello dear ARLnow readers, we at FireWorks have been busy since our ownership change discussing internally how we wanted to involve the community in our required rebranding.

The fantastic team at ARLnow was a natural fit for our passion for local journalism and our Arlington community. Please find below our short list of possible names for our store. We hope you will help us decide what should be our future name and then join us under our new banner as we rebrand, renovate, and improve our store to better serve our community.

The poll below is our short list of names but our full list is:

  1. HearthFire Bar and Grill
  2. Oak and Oven
  3. Corner Oven
  4. Fire Kitchen
  5. The Bus Stop
  6. 2350 Wood Fire
  7. Fire & Flour
  8. Ash & Ember
  9. Clarendon Crust Co.

News

UPDATED: Search for man with weapon closes roads in Lyon Park

By ARLnow.com
Police blocking a road near where officers were searching for a man with a gun (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Update at 2:25 p.m. on 8/19/22 — Arlington police have released additional information about this incident in Friday’s daily crime report. A 34-year-old man was arrested and a knife — not a gun — recovered from the scene, ACPD said.

ASSAULT AND BATTERY (Significant), 2022-08180122, 2400 block of Washington Boulevard. At approximately 1:22 p.m. on August 18th, a plain clothes officer was in the area when he observed the male suspect allegedly brandish a weapon during a dispute with another individual. Additional officers responded to the area and located the suspect who refused to comply with the offices’ commands and fled the scene on foot. Officers canvassed the area, located the suspect in the unit block of N. Bedford Street and took him into custody without incident. During the course of the investigation, a knife was recovered. No injuries were reported. Saul Leal, 34, of Arlington, VA was arrested and charged with Assault and Battery. He was held on a $1,000 bond.

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Announcement

Summer Martial Arts and Fitness Training for College Students in Arlington

By EvolveAll

If you’re a college student spending the summer in Arlington — whether you’re interning, working, or just home for a few months — EvolveAll is the place to stay fit, sharpen skills, and be in community.

For just $295, college students get full access to all of EvolveAll’s adult programs from May through August. That means Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, self-defense, yoga, Pilates, and more — a whole community of people who show up, put in the work, and look out for each other.

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Around Town

An early look at our most-read stories of the year so far

By ARLnow.com
Bear spotted in Arlington in June (photo courtesy Animal Welfare League of Arlington)

Most of the time we save our most-read stories of the year countdown to the end of the year.

But it’s the summer news doldrums, we’re short-staffed, a planned story fell through, and, well, just like that week between Christmas and New Year’s we need to fill some space. Hey, it happens.

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Event

Afternoon Matinee Movie – Under the Tuscan Sun (Germantown, MD)

BlackRock Center For The Arts

12901 Town Commons Dr

Germantown, Maryland 20874

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Join us for a delightful Sunday afternoon at the BlackRock Center for the Arts as Cruise Planners Beth & Rod present a special travel-inspired matinee featuring the beloved film Under the Tuscan Sun.

Date & Time: Sunday, May 31 | 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

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News

Morning Poll: Should delivery vehicles be towed if improperly parked on private property?

By ARLnow.com
Amazon van impounded at the Advanced Towing lot in Ballston (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

An Amazon van was towed from an apartment complex on Tuesday. This was the second time we’ve noted one of the company’s delivery vehicles getting towed.

It raises a question: should delivery drivers get special treatment and a blind eye turned to violating a given property owner’s parking rules, or should the rules apply to them too?

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Morning Notes

By ARLnow.com
A plaza between buildings in Ballston, including Salt Line's outdoor patio space (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Arlington Real Estate in WSJ — “Buying a single-family home in Arlington, Va., is a study in patience… With persistence and perseverance, these families were able to buy a house in their favorite Washington, D.C., suburb.” [Wall Street Journal]

Record Low Tax Delinquency — “Treasurer Carla de la Pava announced that the delinquency rate for taxes on real estate and personal property had fallen to 0.161 percent, down from 0.177 percent a year before and the lowest not just in county history but perhaps the lowest ever among any jurisdiction in Virginia history – and maybe more. ‘I would be shocked if it was matched anywhere in the U.S.,’ de la Pava said, praising her ‘dream team’ of staff.” [Sun Gazette]

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Around Town

ARLnow photographer Jay Westcott’s favorite photos from the past two years

By Jay Westcott
Visitors at the View of DC observation deck in Rosslyn (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

The pandemic, now nearly 2.5 years old, has bent time in weird ways.

For many, a prolonged period of mostly staying at home — particularly in 2020 — made time seem to go by faster, with fewer memorable milestones like vacations, nights on the town, visits from friends, etc.

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Around Town

New membership program launches at several Arlington bars, providing beers and pizza slices

By Matt Blitz
A cheese pizza slice from Quincy Hall in Ballston (photo courtesy of Tin Shop)

(Updated, 8:50 p.m.) The company behind several Arlington bars is launching a membership service that aims to position its portfolio as a casual social club, of sorts.

The D.C.-based hospitality group Tin Shop — which owns Pentagon City’s Highline RxR, Quincy Hall in Ballston, the soon-to-open Astro Beer Hall in Shirlington, and seven other D.C. area food-and-drink spots — is starting the “Tin Shop Social Club,” a $39.99/mo service providing drinks and food to members.

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Announcement

Ghost Limb

By A Poetic Interrogation of Authoritarian Power

Ghost Limb is a timely and haunting examination of authoritarianism set during Argentina’s Dirty War that draws poetic inspiration from the Persephone and Demeter myth. When Consuelo’s son is “disappeared” by the military, she discovers a psychic link between her injured arm and her tortured child-and races to find him before it’s too late.

Performance Days and Times

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