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ARLnow Daily Update: September 10, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Thursday, September tenth. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. Crews have fenced off the Marine Corps Memorial and begun cleaning its bronze. Work expected to run through early November.
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  The National Park Service says it's part of the ongoing effort to beautify the nation's capital under President Donald Trump's Making DC Safe and Beautiful initiative.
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  Locals reported crews using blowtorches on the statue, then hand-wiping it. The last major rehabilitation there ended in early twenty twenty.
• 0:31
  The Arlington County Civic Federation opened its new year with a salute to the county fire department.
• 0:37
  More than two dozen firefighters attended the September eighth event, where Battalion Chief Melvin Reed accepted a plaque bearing a resolution the group adopted in June.
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  President Nicholas Giacobbe praised the firefighters' bravery and dedication. The evening also honored Lloyd Edwards Jr., a twenty-two-year veteran who died in May of last year at age forty-two.
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  Ballston has a new watering hole. Solace Outpost opened Wednesday at forty-two oh one Wilson Boulevard in the space that held the El Rey Taqueria and Margarita bar.
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  The sixty-three hundred square foot spot from Sterling-based Solace Brewing serves beer, burgers, salad bowls, and bratwurst, including a half smoke topped with beef chili, onions, and coleslaw.
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  Co-founder John Humrich said he wants it to feel like solace from the moment you walk in. Nash and Smashed has opened at Buckingham Center on North Glebe Road, serving Nashville-style fried chicken and smash burgers.
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  Chief Operating Officer Lamont Malik said the Nashville tenders and the Oklahoma Smashed, a double patty burger with grilled onions and jalapenos, are the early favorites.
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  It's the chain's second Arlington location after Crystal City, with a grand opening planned in about a month. Sandwiches run roughly eight to eleven dollars.
• 1:57
  Arlington's WERA ninety-six point seven is back on the air, but barely.
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  The station resumed broadcasting July twenty-eighth under special temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission and has been airing only music.
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  Radio Arlington, the nonprofit that took over the license in March, told supporters listeners have heard the bare minimum.
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  Co-founder Becky Meyers said the group still can't reach a county-controlled radio room and hopes to be fully online by October.
• 2:30
  Roslyn JazzFest returns Saturday for its thirty-fourth year, running one to seven at Gateway Park with food trucks, local vendors, and four bands.
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  Grammy-nominated Plena Libre headlines at five thirty, joined by Dogo Dutogo and the Alaga Beat Band, Parlor Greens, and Sally Baby's Silver Dollars.
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  Roslyn Business Improvement District President Mary Claire Burick said registration is running ten percent ahead of last year. The park has capacity limits, so signing up early is encouraged.
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  A shuttered Walgreens on Langston Boulevard is becoming a seven-week arts venue.
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  The Arts Place pop-up fills five thousand square feet at thirty-one thirty Langston with mini galleries showing dozens of Arlington Artists Alliance members, plus workshop space.
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  An opening reception runs today from five to seven, and forty-five artists will be on hand Fridays through Sundays until a Halloween-themed close on October twenty-fifth. Admission is free.
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  This sponsored update is from the Organization for Autism Research.
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  The nonprofit is marking twenty-five years with a casino night fundraiser on Saturday, September nineteenth, above ALX Community on South Washington Street in Old Town Alexandria.
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  Guests get table games, an open bar, dinner stations, a silent auction, and a rooftop terrace. General admission is two hundred twenty-five dollars. This sponsored update is from Maria Smith.
• 3:58
  The listing of the day is three oh four Charles Alexander Court in Alexandria's North Ridge neighborhood. A federal-style home with five bedrooms, four and a half baths, and about thirty-seven hundred square feet.
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  It has a finished lower level and a two-level deck. The price is two million eight hundred thousand with an open house Sunday afternoon.
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  This sponsored update is from the Mahood Company, the residential real estate marketing and sales firm behind the Cammie's Corner column on Arlington's condominium market, written by Mahood Vice President Cameron Craft.
• 4:30
  The firm, which has an office on Crystal Drive in Arlington, marked its fortieth anniversary in twenty twenty-three and says it has completed more than two hundred and fifteen residential projects and sold over thirty thousand homes.
• 4:44
  This sponsored update is from Ella Atelier, a new nail studio in Clarendon. Two technicians work on one client at once, one on hands and one on feet, cutting a two-hour manicure and pedicure to about half that.
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  The salon works dry instead of soaking and finishes with builder gel, which it says makes a set last three to four weeks. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.