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ARLnow Daily Update — July 27, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Monday, July twenty-seventh. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. Arlington is remembering Dr. Alfred O. Taylor Jr., a longtime Green Valley civic leader, historian, and mentor who died last week at age ninety-one.
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  Taylor led both the Green Valley Civic Association and the Arlington NAACP. He also wrote Bridge Builders of Nauck/Green Valley, documenting people who shaped the historically Black community.
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  Local groups and elected officials praised his civil rights work, historical advocacy, and decades of service. Information about memorial services was still pending when ARL Now published its story.
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  Arlington Police are investigating gunfire near Gunston Park after what they say was a dispute among people playing basketball.
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  Officers responded shortly before ten Saturday night to the fourteen hundred block of South Twenty-eighth Street. No injuries were reported.
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  Police said they recovered evidence confirming that shots had been fired, but officers did not locate a suspect. The investigation remains ongoing.
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  Arlington Public Schools expects nearly two point nine million dollars more in state funding than it had budgeted.
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  A report prepared for Thursday's school board meeting puts the state contribution for the twenty twenty-six to twenty twenty-seven school year at about one hundred twenty-seven point four million dollars.
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  The extra money will reduce the amount APS needs to take from reserves to close its budget gap.
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  Total expected revenue remains about eight hundred sixty million dollars because the new state money is replacing reserve funding, not adding spending.
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  Charging an electric vehicle at Arlington County facilities could get more expensive later this year.
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  The county board directed staff to prepare an ordinance that could raise the rate from about seventeen and a half cents to thirty cents per kilowatt hour.
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  Officials said the increase would cover higher electricity costs and recover more administrative and infrastructure expenses. Staff is expected to return with recommendations in the fall.
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  The existing three dollar per hour dwell fee, capped at twenty-five dollars, is separate and encourages drivers to move fully charged vehicles.
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  County Board Vice Chair Maureen Coffey says the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor needs a dedicated community center.
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  Coffey noted that about sixty-five thousand people, more than one in four Arlington residents, live along the corridor. She described the idea as a long-term goal, not a near-term project.
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  Possible locations include Central Library in Quincy Park or county-owned land near Washington-Liberty High School.
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  County planning for the future of Central Library is expected to begin in the fiscal year starting in mid-2028. Arlington ice cream shops say the hot summer is helping business, up to a point.
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  The owner of Meeny's Handmade Ice Cream told ARL Now that sunny weather from the seventies into the low nineties is ideal, while more extreme heat can keep customers home.
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  Van Leeuwen in Ballston reports about one hundred customers a day, and The Scoop & Scootery in Clarendon has drawn long lines since opening in June.
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  Toby's in Westover says loyal regulars keep coming, even on hundred-degree days. A large used book sale is coming to Crystal City on Thursday.
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  The event, called A Novel Find, will offer more than five thousand donated books, DVDs, CDs, and records, all priced below eight dollars.
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  It runs from eleven in the morning until six in the evening in the courtyard between the Grace and Riva buildings on South Nineteenth Court. Proceeds support Turning the Page, a nonprofit promoting literacy in D.C.
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  public schools. The event also includes live music and discounts at participating nearby businesses. Douglas Park residents have until the end of July to suggest a new logo for their neighborhood.
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  The civic association says its current logo is about twenty years old and uses a generic county design.
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  Leaders want something unique that better represents the community, which has roughly ten thousand residents between Columbia Pike and Shirlington.
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  A final design is expected later this year and could appear on large neighborhood signs. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.