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ARLnow Daily Update: August 26, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Wednesday, August twenty-sixth. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. Ten new speed cameras will be watching Arlington school zones when classes resume next week, bringing the county's total to thirty-five.
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  Ticketing at existing cameras starts Monday, August thirty-first, the first day of school. The new and relocated cameras get a thirty-day warning period, after which drivers face a one hundred dollar fine per violation.
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  The cameras only ticket when school zone lights are flashing. Nine of the ten new locations are in North Arlington. Arlington's on-demand microtransit pilot has given about fifteen hundred rides since April.
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  County officials say roughly half of those trips connected to the Metro stations at Ballston or East Falls Church.
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  The service covers much of northwestern Arlington plus Westover, and the county calls it a stopgap where ridership is too low to justify more buses. Your first six rides are free.
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  After that, most trips cost four dollars and fifty cents, with half-price fares for seniors, riders with disabilities, and students.
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  An Arlington man is charged after police say he accidentally fired a gun through the windshield of a car he was riding in on Columbia Pike.
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  Arlington County Police say the thirty-three-year-old was in the front passenger seat near South Dinwiddie Street Monday night when the gun went off. All three people in the car went to a hospital as a precaution.
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  No injuries were reported, and he was released on a summons. This sponsored update is from Arlington Economic Development.
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  Arlington Arts is turning the twenty-seven hundred arts space into an outdoor movie destination this fall with a free film series for National Hispanic Heritage Month.
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  Free movie nights run on select Fridays from September eighteenth through October sixteenth at twenty-seven hundred South Nelson Street.
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  Each film is picked with a local community curator, and the lineup includes In the Heights and Coco. Doors open at six with screenings around sunset.
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  A Westover area zip code now ranks as the wealthiest in Arlington according to a new Washington Business Journal ranking.
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  Two two two zero five, covering Westover Village, Tara Lea Way Heights, Madison Manor, and Dominion Hills beat out Rosslyn and North Arlington.
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  A Business Journal researcher told ARL Now the rankings measure dollars concentrated per square foot, so the area's higher density outweighs its lower median income and home values. It ranked fifth region-wide.
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  Il Radicchio is close to fully reopening in Clarendon.
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  The family-owned Italian restaurant, open since nineteen ninety-four, is moving from its longtime Clarendon Boulevard home into the former Mazzaro space at twenty-nine oh nine Wilson Boulevard.
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  Video on social media showed it serving its first diners this month, though a window sign still says temporarily closed. The old building is expected to come down for an eight-story apartment project.
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  This sponsored update is from Arlington Realty Incorporated.
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  Arlington Realty is a family-owned brokerage formed in nineteen eighty-four by a brother and sister team with its office on Twenty-Third Street South in Arlington.
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  The firm is licensed in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, handling residential and commercial sales along with property management.
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  If you're buying, selling, or renting, reach the team at seven oh three eight three six six thousand or learn more at arlingtonrealtyinc.com.
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  A new Arlington-based startup wants to make it easier to hire help around the house. Hago connects Northern Virginia residents with background-checked helpers for pet care, yard work, laundry, and cleaning.
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  Rates run from fifty-nine dollars for a one-hour pet visit to three hundred seventy-nine dollars for eight hours.
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  Chief Executive Taylor Bennett, formerly of Lime and DoorDash, says the company has taken more than one hundred fifty helper applications. Advance Arlington has a new chair.
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  Tony Weaver is taking over the nonprofit founded in nineteen fifty-four as the Arlington Committee of One Hundred, and he says he wants to reach more residents while keeping the group neutral.
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  Its season opens Wednesday, September ninth, at six forty-five in the evening at Lubber Run Community Center with a panel on forms of local government. This sponsored update is from Natalie Roy of KW Metro Center.
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  Today's listing of the day is thirty-two thirty-three Fourth Street North in Ashton Heights, a newly built Craftsman-style home listed at two million seven hundred ninety-five thousand dollars.
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  The listing describes seven bedrooms and five and a half baths across about fifty-five hundred square feet with ten-foot ceilings and a walkout lower level. Open houses run Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
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  That's all for today. Thank you for listening.