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ARLnow Daily Update: August 17, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Monday, August seventeenth. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. Two pedestrians were killed in separate crashes on a stormy Sunday night.
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  The first happened shortly after eight thirty at Carlin Springs Road in Columbia Pike, just over the Arlington line in Fairfax County. A man was struck by a Metro bus turning right onto Carlin Springs Road.
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  First responders pulled him from under the bus and rushed him to the VHC Trauma Center where he was pronounced dead. Fairfax County Police and Metro Transit Police are investigating.
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  Twenty minutes later, about two miles away, a woman was struck on South Glebe Road at 14th Street South in Douglas Park.
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  Arlington County Police said Monday afternoon that she was in the crosswalk when a southbound driver hit her and that she later died at the hospital. The driver stayed at the scene and no charges have been announced.
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  There was another serious crash Monday afternoon. A man riding a bike was injured along Wilson Boulevard in the Bluemont neighborhood at the intersection with North Lexington Street shortly before three thirty.
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  Initial reports suggest a driver struck him in the intersection. Bystanders helped him until medics arrived, and the driver appears to have stayed on scene.
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  He was taken to a hospital with traumatic but non-life-threatening injuries. That stretch of Wilson Boulevard has protected bike lanes.
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  Police handled two incidents involving teenagers at the Arlington County Fair over the weekend. On Friday evening, officers working the fair say a teenage boy brandished what appeared to be a gun.
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  Officers took him into custody and determined the weapon was a replica water gun. A knife and alcohol were also recovered from his backpack.
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  Then on Saturday night, a large fight broke out at the fairgrounds at the Thomas Jefferson Community Center.
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  ACPD says two juveniles allegedly assaulted one person, and a second person who tried to intervene was assaulted as well. The injuries were not life-threatening and that investigation is ongoing.
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  If you drive near Marymount University, expect delays this week. Students began moving in Sunday and move-in runs through the weekend.
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  But the busiest day is Wednesday from about six forty-five in the morning until five in the afternoon.
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  A university spokesperson says the worst congestion is expected near the campus entrances along 26th Street North and North Glebe Road, including the intersections with Old Dominion Drive in Yorktown Boulevard.
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  Marymount is asking neighbors to allow extra travel time or take alternate routes. Fall classes start Monday, August twenty-fourth.
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  Members of an Arlington advisory panel say the feedback shaping the county's proposed Climate Action Plan does not look much like Arlington.
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  In an online survey being used by county staff, residents of single family detached homes made up sixty-one percent of respondents, but are only twenty-nine percent of county residents.
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  More than eighty percent of respondents were homeowners, compared with thirty-six percent of adults countywide. Two panel members also said the responses skewed far older than the county as a whole.
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  County staff say the survey is only one part of a broader outreach effort. The panel meets again August thirty-first. Arlington Public Schools is trying a new way to fill hard to staff special education jobs.
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  The school system has partnered with George Mason University's Project Patriots Initiative, which lets current staff earn a required degree and special education certification while still working full time.
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  Superintendent Francisco Duran told the school board that the first Arlington participants are three instructional assistants and one substitute teacher. The program is federally funded and tuition free.
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  Twelve special education positions were still unfilled countywide as of August seventh. School starts August thirty-first.
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  There was a back to school party at Clairmont Immersion Elementary School on Friday with help from the Washington Wizards.
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  The back to school tip-off featured the team's mascot, the Wizards Dancers, plus face painting, three-point shooting, and free haircuts. Students got backpacks filled with school supplies and picked out free books.
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  The event was a joint effort by the school division, the Wizards, and the Monumental Sports and Entertainment Foundation. The principal said she hopes it becomes an annual partnership.
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  And a new dessert shop is coming to Founders Row in Falls Church. Lil' Cakes and Creamery, a local chain, says it hopes to open at one hundred and twenty Founders Avenue by the end of August.
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  The shop specializes in gourmet cupcakes with flavors like key lime pie and caramel macchiato, plus milkshakes, ice cream sandwiches, and cake jars. It would be the chain's eighth location. That's all for today.
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  Thank you for listening