Matt Sughrue has become a top player in U.S. Senior Amateur
It took a while, including two stretches when he pretty much quit playing competitive golf for more than 20 years combined, for Matt Sughrue to understand and enjoy what he believes is most important about the sport.
Title game were all play on the Barcroft Park fields
The annual First Responders Cup girls softball tournament finished Sept. 8 in Arlington when four age-group champions were crowned at different Barcroft Park fields to complete the two days of competition.
With the roller-coaster ride of a presidential-candidate switcheroo now in the rearview mirror, Arlington Democrats have pivoted to the nuts and bolts of turning out voters.
“A lot of fun between now and Nov. 5 –[and] a lot of work to do,” Arlington County Democratic Committee chair Steve Baker said at the organization’s Sept. 4 meeting.
How many is too many when it comes to those living in substance-recovery centers located among Arlington’s residential neighborhoods?
Arlington County Board members on Sept. 14 are slated to consider and, possibly, approve zoning changes that would create a “recovery residence” zoning use in residential neighborhoods and allow it, by right, for eight or fewer residents.
It might seem like the biggest responsibility of a political novice taking on an experienced incumbent would be to detail exactly what said incumbent was – or was not – doing to merit being tossed out of office.
The closest any of the three challengers to U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th) came at a recent forum was when Republican Jerry Torres suggested the district needed a visible representative.
Officers and crew of the USS Arlington visited Arlington and on Sept. 7 participated in the Arlington Police, Fire & Sheriff 9/11 Memorial 5K Run, where the ship’s contingent finished first in the “military teams” category.
The ship’s commander, U.S. Navy Capt. Ian Scaliantine, addressed the crowd and spoke of the honor it was for the USS Arlington sailors to participate in the race. USS Arlington crew members not only competed, but also participated in the joint Honor Guard and awarded finishing medals to runners.
Is the Arlington County Civic Federation moving away from its century-old roots with a growing proportion of member organizations not being typical neighborhood-based civic associations?
It’s a matter that got a brief bit of discussion as the organization returned Sept. 3 from its summer hiatus, when some delegates questioned a growing trend of issue-specific advocacy groups becoming more dominant in sheer numbers.
Does the Arlington school system need, and can county taxpayers afford, an ongoing capital-spending blizzard when the projected growth of the student body is expected to slow to a trickle in coming years?
That was among a brief set of questions posed to the four aspirants for two open Arlington School Board seats during a Sept. 3 forum sponsored by the Arlington County Civic Federation.
Three of four contenders for the open Arlington County Board seat believe the growth rate of property owners’ tax burdens is too high. The fourth – and the race’s almost guaranteed winner – appears to disagree.
The impact of the double-whammy of higher home assessments and a higher tax rate in 2024 didn’t seem to faze Democratic nominee J.D. Spain Sr. during the Arlington County Civic Federation’s Sept. 3 candidate forum.
A candidate for Arlington County Board thinks those employed by the county government are getting shafted by recent changes to the county’s human-rights ordinance.
In an e-mail to supporters, Audrey Clement took issue with revisions that explicitly prohibit those thousands working for the county government from going to the Human Rights Commission for redress of employment concerns.
For the first time in its 40-plus-year existence, the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics will have more than 1,000 competitors when the two-week series kicks off Sept. 14.
“It has been our goal for some time to reach this record-breaking number, which also marks a 15-percent increase over last year,” notes Riley Geary, who chairs the organizing committee.
Arlington Public Schools opened the 2024-25 academic year with nearly 500 more students than at the same point a year before, Superintendent Francisco Durán told School Board members in his Sept. 5 start-of-school recap.
The tally of 27,889 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade on Sept. 3 was up 475 from the same point last year, and was closing in on the number projected in the school system’s budget adopted in springtime.
