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ARLnow Daily Update: August 18, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Tuesday, August 18th. This is the ARL Now daily update. Police have identified the pedestrian struck and killed on South Glebe Road over the weekend.
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  Arlington County Police say Catherine Kruger, a forty-eight-year-old Arlington resident, was in the crosswalk at South Glebe Road and 14th Street South on Sunday night when a southbound driver hit her at about ten minutes before nine.
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  She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The driver stayed at the scene and no charges have been announced.
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  It happened during a storm about twenty minutes after a separate fatal crash just over the Fairfax County line. An Arlington man is in custody after gunfire at a Gunston Middle School basketball court last month.
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  Police say fifty-one-year-old Adrian Dwight Taylor argued with several people during a game on the night of July 25th, then took a gun from his vehicle and fired multiple rounds toward the occupied court, where many of those present were juveniles.
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  Nobody was hurt. Taylor is charged with nine counts of attempted malicious wounding and other felonies, including shooting on school property. He is being held without bond, and detectives say there may be more victims.
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  A towing company is suing Arlington County because it wants getting towed to cost more.
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  Ballston-based Advanced Towing has spent months in circuit court trying to raise the base towing rate from one hundred sixty dollars to two hundred ten.
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  The county board did raise that fee from one hundred thirty-five dollars in December, but the company calls the decision arbitrary, noting that Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties all charge two hundred ten.
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  County lawyers say Virginia law requires the board to consider fair market value, but not to match it. A judge heard arguments last week.
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  Arlington's Tenant Landlord Commission wants the state to help renters deal with mold over objections from landlords on its own panel.
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  Its top recommendation to the county board asks Richmond for a statewide mold remediation fund and free mold testing for Virginia residents.
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  Landlords could be made to reimburse the state if they don't fix problems within twenty days. Two industry representatives said that puts the cost on housing providers no matter who caused the mold.
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  The board decides later this year whether to make it a legislative priority. Drew Park in Green Valley is getting a substantial redesign.
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  The draft final design adds a fitness area next to the basketball court, another play area near the spray pad, barbecue grills, a picnic pavilion, and raised garden beds.
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  New money in the county's capital plan also pays for a restroom on South Kenmore Street, which residents said was a priority. The park is getting fruit trees, and the sledding hill and basketball courts stay.
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  County board review of the two point two million dollar project is expected this fall or early winter.
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  A new historical marker for the Reeves Farmhouse goes before the county's Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board tomorrow.
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  The board has to pick a location, and staff prefer the bottom of the driveway near North Manchester Street. The farmhouse was built in 1878 and anchored the Reeves family dairy until the 1950s.
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  It is being renovated into a home for up to four adults with developmental disabilities to be run by the nonprofit L'Arche. An older marker along the Four Mile Run Trail will come down as out of date.
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  And there is free ice cream in Ballston tomorrow.
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  A new pop-up park in the courtyard at forty-seventy-five Wilson Boulevard is giving away honeycomb ice cream from Van Leeuwen starting at eleven thirty in the morning while supplies last.
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  Organizers expect enough for about seventy-five people. There will also be lawn games. The Ballston Business Improvement District says the Wednesday series continues into September.
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  Eli has written ARL Now's weekly real estate column for more than ten years. That's all for today. Thank you for listening