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ARLnow Daily Update: August 5, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Wednesday, August fifth. This is the ARL Now daily update. Arlington's primary results are in, and both incumbents won comfortably.
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  In unofficial election night returns, Congressman Don Beyer took about sixty-eight percent across the eighth District, with Mo Seifeldin at roughly eighteen.
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  County Board Chair Matt DeFerranti won fifty-five percent of first choice votes, clearing fifty percent and avoiding a second round under ranked choice rules.
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  Julie Farnam had twenty-eight percent, James DeVita seventeen. Retired Army Major General Bert Mizusawa won the Republican Senate primary and will face Senator Mark Warner.
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  Turnout was light, about twelve percent for Democrats and one percent for Republicans. Both parties meet tonight to plan for November third.
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  Three new townhomes are going on the market on the eight hundred block of North Burlington Street, where a duplex was destroyed in a deadly house explosion in Bluemont.
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  Developer Alex Wilson, who lives nearby, bought both halves of the lot and fit three townhouses onto it. He's moving into one.
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  The two for sale are listed just under one million, nine hundred thousand dollars each, with an open house August fifteenth.
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  Wilson's appeal is also why Arlington's expanded housing options rules went back into effect last summer, though he told ARL Now he has since stepped back from that lawsuit.
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  A proposed senior living facility on Langston Boulevard drew mixed reviews from a county site plan review committee.
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  Kensington Senior Living wants a seven-story building just west of North Upton Street with one hundred assisted living and memory care suites, ten apartments on top, and about three thousand square feet of retail facing Lee Heights shops.
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  A county planner said it generally meets the Langston Boulevard area plan.
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  Members objected to the thin retail component and to the developer possibly paying into the county's affordable housing fund rather than building affordable units on site.
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  A second meeting is set for September seventeenth. Arlington Animal Control has seized three goats that walked much of the way across the country.
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  Their owner, who goes by Jacob Holliday, says he had been traveling for years, hoping to sing the John Lennon song "Imagine" on the Capitol steps.
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  He camped near Arlington Boulevard and South Carlin Springs Road last week.
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  Animal Control Chief Jennifer Toussant cited a legal matter and declined to say more, but said seizures happen only when needed to protect animal welfare or meet obligations under Virginia law.
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  She says the goats are receiving appropriate care. Virginia's sales tax holiday runs Friday through Sunday.
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  It lifts the sales tax, normally six percent in Arlington, on most clothing, footwear, and school supplies from crayons and paper to backpacks, textbooks, and calculators.
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  Some emergency supplies and Energy Star appliances also qualify. Handbags, jewelry, and sports equipment do not.
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  Arlington's nine eleven memorial five K returns September fifth, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks.
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  The race honors police, fire, sheriff, and emergency communications responders, and starts at six PM outside the DoubleTree Hotel in Crystal City. Its website says it has raised more than one million dollars.
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  New this year is a category for people who took part in the response. Runners finish past the damaged section of the Pentagon, and organizers expect up to two thousand participants.
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  And Sloppy Mama's on Langston Boulevard hosts its second Pickle Party Saturday afternoon, a fundraiser for the Arlington Food Assistance Center.
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  Guests vote on cucumber pickles, non-cucumber pickles, and a new category owner Joe Newman calls, "You can pickle that?" General admission is free, with ticket packages available for the pig roast.
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  Winners get a year of free pickles. This sponsored update is from Arlington Realty Incorporated.
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  Each week, Arlington Realty's Just Reduced feature on ARL Now tracks Arlington County homes whose prices were cut over the previous week. As of August third, forty-eight homes across the county had a price reduction.
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  Arlington Realty notes the featured homes may be listed with other brokerages, and that its team is available to represent buyers on any of them. Learn more at arlingtonrealtyinc.com.
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  This sponsored update is from Arlington Economic Development, Arlington County's economic development office, led by Chief Economic Development Officer and Director Anna Nissinen.
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  Its team works with companies looking to start, relocate, expand, or grow in Arlington, connecting them with workforce data, industry research, and county resources.
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  For local entrepreneurs, its BizLaunch program offers guidance, classes, and networking with new fall programming ahead.
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  The office also runs a commercial market resiliency initiative, modernizing county regulations for a more flexible commercial market. Learn more at arlingtoneconomicdevelopment.com. That's all for today.
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  Thank you for listening.