With a recent seesaw one-goal road victory, the Yorktown Patriots ice-hockey club team improved to 5-1 overall with its first win of 2025.
Yorktown edged host Broad Run, 6-5, at the Ashburn Ice House in the Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League match.
The Yorktown Patriots recently split two basketball games at the Ron Engle Classic holiday tournament in Middletown, Md.
The Patriots (3-8) routed the Blake Bengals, 64-18, in their first game of the high-school competition. Senior Helene Lydon led Yorktown with 15 points in the win.
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Bad news if you receive Arlington County’s trash collection service on Mondays: you’re going to have to wait another week.
With snow expected to continue accumulating Monday night, the Dept. of Environmental Services announced this evening that trash collection for Tuesday through Friday customers will be pushed back a day, starting Wednesday. Monday customers, meanwhile, will have to keep piling up their trash bags for another week.
Federal-government employees irked at the prospect of being forced back into the office five days a week might want to check out job opportunities with the Arlington County government.
Arlington continues to offer a relatively flexible work-from-home policy, and would be happy to talk with those who might wish to avail themselves of it, the county’s top staffer said.
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Friday, July 31, 2026
Tomorrow will be another snow day for Arlington Public Schools.
The school system announced this afternoon (Monday) that all APS schools and offices will continue to be closed due to winter weather.
In a winter wonderland today (Monday), several families were spotted indulging in some snow day fun on a hill near the Rosslyn area’s Netherlands Carillon.
Fort Myer resident Ben Wolfert brought his two sons, Nate and Josh, for an afternoon outing on the slope across from the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, ranked one of the best sledding destinations in Arlington by ARLnow readers.
Arlington County has recorded its first carjacking of 2025.
A delivery driver was carjacked on Thursday, Jan. 2 near the Pentagon City Metro station, according to an Arlington County Police Department crime report.
Snow is continuing to heap up in Arlington, bringing a flurry of closures and changes — as well as dangers for anyone caught out in the storm.
The county has activated its fleet of fancifully named snowplows, with a total of 70 currently available, county spokesperson Katie O’Brien told ARLnow. They cleared about 30% of residential streets on their first pass this morning, and the county expects to continue operations throughout the day and into tomorrow.
ARLnow today is launching a new daily newsletter intended to provide a more streamlined way to get your local news.
The ARLnow Pro Update will go out shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday-Friday, just like the long-time ARLnow Afternoon Update newsletter, but it includes the following exclusive features.
