The Arlington Department of Parks and Recreation is accepting requests for up to 500 young native trees that will be provided free, one per household, next month.
“The trees you plant are part of our mission to expand and enhance Arlington’s urban-tree canopy,” county officials said. “This annual program is very popular and has yielded many beautiful trees and benefited our community.”
“Ruff the Runway,” a dog fashion show and fundraiser to support Jane Franklin Dance, will be held on Monday, Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. at Snouts & Stouts Indoor Dog Park and Bar, 2709 S. Oakland St.
“Strut your mutt down the runway and compete for fantastic prizes,” organizers said. “Whether your pooch is polished, pampered or just plain adorable, this is their time to shine!”
The second Wakefield High School car show is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26 at 8 a.m. in the school’s front parking lot.
The event is a fundraiser for the Class of 2025. There will be a food vendor in the parking lot.
Unless they can come up with a political pincer movement at the relatively last minute, it looks life Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s name will remain on the Arlington House national monument for the foreseeable future.
Measures by U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th) and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) were introduced for the 2023-24 session on June 6, 2023, but continue to languish in committee.
Washington Dulles International Airport is expected to end 2024 with about one-fifth the air traffic to China it had in 2019, according to new projections.
That marks the one less-than-bright spot in an overall healthy rebound in international travel since COVID restrictions were eased and passengers again started taking to the skies.
Two firms headquartered in Arlington have seen their rankings go up in the newly released 2024 “Global 500” list of the world’s largest companies.
Boeing and Raytheon were among seven Virginia firms making the annual ranking by Fortune:
Perhaps lacking in dramatic oomph, the Arlington County government staff’s final recommendation on addressing deer overpopulation in Arlington remains the same as it has been throughout much of the preliminaries.
County Board members on Sept. 17 were advised that the staff affirmed its previous recommendation for the use of professional sharpshooters to cull the herd of white-tailed deer in the county. If final procedural steps are approved by the County Board as expected, the initiative could begin about 15 months from now.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 this week, compiled a 1-for-2 record with the Arlington electorate.
The former Georgia governor in his successful 1976 bid for the White House defeated Republican Gerald Ford in the county tally, 32,536 to 30,872, according to data from the county government’s elections office.
The local-media landscape has experienced more evolution with the recent acquisition of GazetteLeader operations by Arlington-based Local News Now.
The firm last week formally acquired GazetteLeader assets, including archives, from O’Rourke Media Group, which now operates 50 local publications in eight states and 36 markets in the U.S. and started the GazetteLeader in early 2023 as its first foray into the local region.
As Arlington school leaders in coming months develop a permanent policy on phone-accessibility among students, they may in one instance have to decide whether to challenge the recently unveiled state-level guidance on the topic.
Those state rules, rolled out Sept. 17 and expected to be implemented by Virginia’s 130-plus school districts by the end of the year, are generally in line with a stopgap measure announced a month before by Arlington Superintendent Francisco Durán. But, as the superintendent acknowledged at the time, there was one significant area where they did not mesh.
As the 2024 presidential election evolves, Arlington Democrats appear to be shifting their out-of-state assistance efforts, at least somewhat.
Earlier this year, local Democrats announced plans to conduct phone banks, write postcards and even visit North Carolina, seen as a battleground state in the presidential race and having a number of high-profile state races on the ballot.
With more than 14 million passengers moving through in June, July and August, the summer season will have proved to be a record-breaker for Ronald Reagan Washington National and Washington Dulles International airports.
But first, the number-crunching needs to be wrapped up.
