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ARLnow Daily Update: August 14, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Friday, August 14th. This is the ARL Now daily update. Arlington County released a five-year review of its race and ethnicity dashboard on Thursday, and the picture is mixed.
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  People of color now make up just under forty percent of residents, though planners caution much of that jump reflects a change in how the Census Bureau asks about race, not actual population shifts.
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  Median household income was about one hundred forty-two thousand dollars last year, roughly four percent lower than in twenty nineteen, adjusted for inflation.
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  Black households posted the largest gain, up twenty-four percent. Poverty edged up to seven point four percent, and thirty-five percent of residents now work from home, up from seven percent in twenty nineteen.
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  Across the river, the Kennedy Center board voted Thursday to close most of the building for two years and add President Trump's name to the facade.
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  Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat on the board, called it a transparent effort to circumvent the court's ruling.
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  Judge Christopher Cooper had ruled in May that the lettering was added illegally and blocked an earlier closure. A shutdown would take the region's largest performing arts venue offline just as Arlington stages thrive.
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  Signature Theatre and Synetic Theater both broke sales records last year.
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  Arlington's Pedestrian Advisory Committee is raising substantial concerns about a proposed one hundred forty-six bed behavioral health complex at six oh one South Carlin Springs Road.
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  Committee member Don Bennett told the panel Wednesday that traffic there is very heavy and sidewalks are narrow, overgrown in places, and in one spot dangerously broken.
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  He called the project from VHC Health and Life Point Health clearly car-oriented. A second site plan review is expected this fall, with a county board vote possible by year's end.
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  Virginia's wider gun-free zones around polling places have arrived in Arlington without a hitch.
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  A new law expanded the radius from forty feet to one hundred feet on July first, and the August fourth primaries were the first test.
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  Elections director Gretchen Reinemeyer told the electoral board she does not anticipate much impact, saying guns have not been a concern at Arlington polls. The bigger test is the November third election.
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  A Swanson Middle School science teacher is heading to the Library of Congress.
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  Daniel Bernhardt has been named an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow and teacher in residence there for the coming school year, one of fourteen educators chosen nationally.
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  Superintendent Francisco Duran praised his nationally recognized program at Swanson. Bernhardt stays an APS employee during his year of leave. There's a new Afghan restaurant on Langston Boulevard.
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  Aamu Kitchen serves Western Afghan food with Mediterranean influences, including char-grilled lamb and chicken kebabs and a specialty called kabuli pulao, lamb cooked in rice.
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  Co-owner Najibullah Razai and his wife bought the place in May, redid the menu, and added chess, Ludo, and pocket boards for waiting customers. He says the baked goods are the biggest sellers.
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  EcoAction Arlington and Virginia Cooperative Extension are recruiting a new class of eco ambassadors, volunteers who help neighbors save energy and lower utility bills across Arlington and Alexandria.
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  The five-week training starts in September, open to anyone sixteen and older. Adult training costs one hundred ten dollars with a discount for applying by Monday and fee waivers available.
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  Yorktown's golf team won the Don Roth Warhawk Invitational at Twin Lakes in Clifton, its first tournament win in several years, shooting a two hundred ninety-five to beat host Madison by fourteen strokes.
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  Freshman Charlie Wisniewski took individual honors with a personal best sixty-eight, four under par in his first match for the Patriots. The county championship is Wednesday.
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  And voting is open in the ARL Now Reader's Choice poll for the best Chinese restaurant in Arlington. Write-ins are welcome and voting closes in two weeks. This sponsored update is from ARL Now.
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  This sponsored update is from RE/MAX Allegiance.
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  The listing of the day is two thousand six hundred nine North Nottingham Street in Williamsburg, a three-bedroom, two-bath brick rambler listed at one point one million dollars.
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  It has a renovated kitchen addition, a finished lower level, and a fenced backyard in the Nottingham, Williamsburg, and Yorktown school pyramid.
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  Open house is Sunday, August sixteenth, two to four, listed by Rob Ferguson. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.