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ARLnow Daily Update: August 24, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Monday, August twenty-fourth. This is the ARL Now daily update. For the second time in less than a week, a cyclist was struck and injured at a Wilson Boulevard intersection in Bluemont.
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  Sunday afternoon, a witness says the driver of a red sedan hit a man on a bike at North George Mason Drive, sending him flying through the air.
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  He was taken to the trauma center at VHC Health with injuries that were not reported to be life-threatening. The driver stayed on scene, and it's unclear whether he will face charges.
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  Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire Sunday night at a large apartment building on North Quincy Street in Ballston.
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  The county fire department says the flames started in the kitchen of a unit and were out before eleven thirty at night.
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  One resident and one firefighter went to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, and fire marshals are investigating the cause.
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  It was the second fire in a Ballston area residential tower in as many weeks. Arlington County Police are investigating after a woman was found dead outside the Rosslyn Metro station entrance Sunday afternoon.
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  Officers were called to the eighteen hundred block of North Moore Street just before three for a reported cardiac arrest and found her unresponsive.
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  Police say the death does not appear suspicious, and there is no indication of an ongoing threat. The medical examiner will determine the cause.
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  Traffic cameras caught two fights that spilled outside Arlington bars over the weekend.
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  Early Sunday, video posted by public safety watcher Dave Statter shows four men brawling for several minutes outside Ricky's Pub and Grill on North Glebe Road in Buckingham.
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  One man was hospitalized, and others were handcuffed. About an hour later in Clarendon, police say a man in a street fight struck an officer working the nightlife detail and ran.
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  A thirty-five-year-old Arlington man was arrested and charged with assault on police. Representative Don Beyer says President Trump's trade war with Canada is doing lasting damage that may take years to undo.
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  Trump threatened today to put fifty percent tariffs on Canadian cars, auto parts, and steel starting next year, days after the United States levied fifty percent tariffs on about twenty billion dollars in Canadian goods.
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  Canada says it will retaliate dollar for dollar beginning September eighth. Beyer, a former car dealer and a senior House Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, says Americans will see much higher prices.
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  An independent has qualified for the November third ballot against Beyer.
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  Tim Sharman told us he is running to win, appealing to Democrats frustrated with the party's direction and to Republicans and independents who feel sidelined in the Eighth District.
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  He spent about forty-two thousand dollars of his own money to get on the ballot. Beyer has won large majorities since twenty fourteen. Candidates are set to meet at a Civic Federation forum on September eighth.
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  In Falls Church, the civic group Citizens for a Better City wants at least half the new units at the Virginia Village Affordable Housing project reserved for people earning thirty percent or less of area median income, a bracket the group says has been largely ignored.
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  A city committee interviews three development teams this week and expects to pick a preferred partner Thursday, with the city council taking it up in September.
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  Arlington's spotted lanternflies should start to thin out, but not for another couple of seasons.
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  County Natural Resources Manager Alonso Abugattas told a Virginia Cooperative Extension forum that birds, bats, and possibly a parasitic wasp will cut their numbers around twenty twenty-eight or twenty twenty-nine based on what happened in Pennsylvania.
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  His advice stands, "Kill them when you see them. They will settle into being just another pest," he said, "but they are here to stay." A taqueria in Ballston has closed to make way for a brewpub.
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  Solace Outpost is taking over the El Rey space on Wilson Boulevard at Ballston Exchange, with a full rebrand of the bay and beers from Sterling-based Solace Brewing Company.
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  Co-founder John Hummerich cited Ballston's energy and density. A menu, hours, and an opening date have not been announced. And the ARL Now app picked up two new features.
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  A scanner tab lists local public safety incidents as they are dispatched with a plain English summary, the block, and a timestamp, though early reports can change.
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  There is also a daily audio briefing, much like this one, playable from the home screen. Both are free, and no account is required. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.