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ARLnow Daily Update: August 21, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Friday, August twenty-first. This is the ARL Now daily update. A Glencarlyn landmark is closing. St.
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  John's Episcopal Church will hold its last regular worship service on Sunday, August thirtieth, ending more than a hundred and thirty years in the neighborhood.
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  A final community service of thanksgiving is expected in mid-September, and the Glencarlyn Civic Association was told it will likely fall on September seventeenth.
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  The church traces its roots to eighteen ninety, when about twenty families petitioned Virginia Theological Seminary to start a mission church.
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  The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia says it will share more about the future of the South Lexington Street property.
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  Falls Church is rethinking how it handles uncleared sidewalks after last winter, when snow, sleet, and freezing temperatures left some stretches impassable for weeks.
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  Under a plan up for discussion, city inspectors would go out twenty-four hours after snowfall stops, focused on commercial corridors, photographing problem spots, and notifying property owners instead of waiting for complaints.
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  The city cannot fine anyone yet. State law lets Northern Virginia counties, but not cities, issue snow citations. So Falls Church plans to lobby the General Assembly.
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  Council members revisit this at an August twenty-fourth work session, with action possible in late September. A Fairfax native is running home.
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  Colin Chartier, a twenty seventeen Marymount graduate and once a top fifteen ranked triathlete in this country, is on a two thousand mile run from Colorado to Northern Virginia.
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  His professional career ended in twenty twenty-three with a three-year doping suspension after he tested positive for EPO. Chartier says he will not return to professional racing.
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  He has raised nearly one hundred thousand dollars for the Heron Project, an addiction recovery nonprofit.
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  He expects to reach Arlington on August thirtieth, starting at Reston Town Center at nine in the morning, finishing at the Lincoln Memorial, and celebrating afterward at Virginia Highlands Park.
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  Two restaurant weeks are on. Falls Church launched its first ever summer restaurant week today, running through August thirtieth.
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  Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week begins Monday and also runs through the thirtieth, with fifteen Arlington restaurants taking part.
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  Expect fixed price menus, including a twenty-five dollar lunch at Epic Smokehouse in Pentagon City, a fifty-five dollar dinner at Salt in Rosslyn, and a forty dollar dinner at Spice Craft in Clarendon.
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  In Falls Church, diners who collect stamps from eight restaurants can enter to win one of three one hundred dollar gift cards. The Arlington based National Chamber Ensemble is marking twenty years.
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  Its new season runs from November through June under the theme A Season of Masters from Baroque to Soul.
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  Founder and artistic director Leo Souzhansky says the group has grown well beyond chamber concerts into education and community programming.
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  The five concert season opens November seventh with Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Brahms. A February thirteenth concert pays tribute to Arlington's Roberta Flack, and actress and singer Linda Carter returns as guest host.
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  This sponsored update is from the Arlington County Department of Human Services. Arlington County is updating its housing grants program.
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  Beginning in October, new admissions will be managed through a wait list, a change the county says is meant to keep the program financially sustainable.
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  Current participants will not lose assistance because of the wait list change alone as long as they remain eligible.
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  New admissions stay open through September thirtieth, so households that may qualify are encouraged to apply now.
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  The program serves seniors sixty-five and older, working households with children under eighteen, and households that include someone totally and permanently disabled.
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  You can learn more on the county's housing grants program website. The Arlington Youth Football Club opens its season Saturday, September twelfth at Wakefield High School.
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  About ninety players have signed up across six age levels from seven to fourteen, and registration stays open through September second. Commissioner Emily Lyon says the league would love more players and more coaches.
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  The club also handed out championship rings to its twenty twenty-five Admirals team, which went undefeated and won a Northern Virginia Youth Football League division title. Greer Lyons was named Player of the Year.
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  And voting is open in the ARL Now Readers' Choice Awards for best orthodontist in Arlington. Write-ins are welcome, and voting closes in two weeks. Voting for best Chinese restaurant closes next Friday morning.
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  In the most recent round, Ireland's Four Courts was named Arlington's best nightlife spot. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.