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ARLnow Daily Update: September 9, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Wednesday, September ninth. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. Arlington's three county board candidates held their first general election debate last night at a Civic Federation Forum.
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  Board Chair Matt De Ferranti, a Democrat seeking a third term, said the county faces a fiscal challenge and argued the board has been adapting to a changed commercial real estate market.
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  Independent David Sisson said De Ferranti offered no real ideas and pushed harder on turning empty offices into housing. Independent Audrey Clement said leaders should cut the one point seven billion dollar budget.
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  All three raised concerns about e-bike speeds and pedestrian safety. Early voting begins September eighteenth.
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  Shelley Arnoldi, the Libertarian candidate in the eighth Congressional District, which includes Arlington, reposted a video last week that opens with Adolf Hitler shouting about Jewish globalization, and on Tuesday reposted another defending Nazi book burnings.
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  The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington has said she repeatedly spreads anti-Semitic tropes that have no place in American political discourse.
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  Arnoldi rejected the allegations, calling herself an American patriot concerned about the national debt. She is running against Representative Don Beyer.
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  Arlington Transit ridership rose about one point one percent in the fiscal year that ended in June, despite a seven-week government shutdown. State figures show nearly two point seven million passengers.
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  October of twenty twenty-five, normally the busiest month, was down during the shutdown.
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  Across Northern Virginia, the five local bus systems carried more than twenty-one million riders, up about six point six percent, with Alexandria's DASH and Loudoun County Transit posting the biggest gains.
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  This sponsored update is from Arlington Economic Development. The thirty-fourth annual Rosslyn Jazz Fest returns to Gateway Park this Saturday, September twelfth, from one to seven in the afternoon.
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  It is Arlington's largest free outdoor music festival.
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  Grammy-nominated Plena Libre, one of Puerto Rico's best-known plena and bomba groups, headlines, with Sally Baby's Silver Dollars, Parlor Greens, and Dogo Do Togo and The Ilaga Beat Band. Tommy McFly returns as MC.
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  Registration is free at the Rosslyn Jazz Fest website. Santa Rosa Taqueria plans to open in Clarendon by early October, taking over the former Seymour's space at twenty-eight fifteen Clarendon Boulevard.
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  It is the second location for the brand, which opened on Capitol Hill in twenty seventeen.
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  Micheline Mendelson, Deputy Chief Executive of Sunnyside Restaurant Group, says the Clarendon spot will keep a fast casual feel while adding a rotating margarita bar with flavors like grapefruit, hibiscus, and marigold.
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  Drivers should plan around the tenth annual DC Bike Ride on Saturday. Arlington Memorial Bridge closes from six to nine-thirty in the morning between Memorial Circle and the Lincoln Memorial.
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  On Interstate three ninety-five, Ramp G from the Pentagon City exit into the District and the southbound high occupancy lanes both close from six in the morning until noon. Organizers expect about seven thousand riders.
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  Falls Church welcomed runners on Sunday taking part in a four hundred eighty-five mile relay marking the September eleventh attacks.
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  About forty-five runners with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation are covering the route from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to New York City by way of the Pentagon.
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  Mayor Letty Hardy and a police escort met them at the end of a six-mile leg from Vienna.
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  All four of Arlington's high school football teams won last week, the first time since twenty fourteen that every team has a win two games into a season. Washington Liberty beat McLean seventeen to seven.
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  Yorktown shut out Ballou forty-one to nothing, with Jamari Washington running for one hundred twelve yards and two touchdowns. Wakefield held off Rock Ridge twenty-one to fourteen with a late goal line stand.
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  And Bishop O'Connell blanked St. John Paul the Great also forty-one to nothing.
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  And if you are looking for somewhere to watch, the Newsroom has a new guide to more than thirty bars and restaurants in Arlington and Falls Church showing college and pro football this fall, including Commanders, Steelers, and Virginia Tech hangouts.
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  This sponsored update is from Arlington Realty. Arlington Realty is an independent family-run brokerage based on Twenty-third Street South in Arlington, licensed in Virginia, Maryland, and the District.
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  Its brokers have worked these neighborhoods since the nineteen eighties, handling residential and commercial sales, leasing, property management, and new home construction.
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  Alongside the weekly Just Reduced roundup of Arlington price cuts, the team represents buyers and sellers directly, arranging showings and negotiating terms. You can learn more at arlingtonrealtyinc.com.
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  That's all for today. Thank you for listening.