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Clarendon Alliance taps new executive director

The board of directors of the Clarendon Alliance has announced that Jenée Padmore will serve as its new executive director. “I am passionate about community collaboration and outreach. I recognize the unique circumstances that have confronted our neighborhood. As we...

GOP giving up on N.Va. congressional seats?

Perhaps it’s just stating the obvious, but national Republicans appear to have given up on Northern Virginia in helping win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Feb. 10 unveiled a list...

Legislature lauds local coach-educator

In honor of his decades of molding students and athletes at Yorktown and Bishop O’Connell high schools, the Virginia General Assembly has passed a resolution saluting Mark Stripe. Stripe retired from Arlington Public Schools in 2020 after a coaching career...

COVID may result in larger homes

After a half-decade in which average sizes of new single-family houses declined, the bottom may have been reached, according to new data. The average single-family home constructed last year contained just under 2,500 square feet of living space, down from...

At A-SPAN, pandemic ‘has not stopped us’

Already working with a highly vulnerable population, the pandemic pandemonium of the last year has caused the Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network (A-SPAN) to be nimble and creative in adjusting to meet the needs of its clients. COVID “taught us...

Arlington gearing up for unusual football season

How about some Monday-night football in February? Yes, that is correct. It all seems very weird, but the high-school football season for Arlington’s three public-school varsity teams is set to begin with Monday night contests on Feb. 22. Practice began...

Arlington Free Clinic director lauded

Joan Ritter, M.D., FACP, of Arlington, the volunteer medical director of the Arlington Free Clinic, has been honored with the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation’s 2020 “Salute to Service Award” for her efforts on behalf of the uninsured and...

Instant-runoff voting likely on hold for 2021

Technical, legal and financial complexities likely will mean any start to “instant-runoff” County Board voting in Arlington will be pushed back to 2022 at the soonest. “It’s not practical for this year. The earliest this could possibly be used is...

Suburbs outpace D.C. core in home-value growth

When it comes to the 10 largest real-estate markets in the country, the Washington region is part of a slight majority where home values in any given region’s more suburban areas outpaced those in its urban cores in 2020.  New...

Green Valley salutes 104-year-old

With lights flashing and sirens wailing, a flock of Arlington police and fire vehicles on Feb. 7 led a parade of well-wishers down South Kenmore Street, wishing local resident Mary Lockett a joyous 104th birthday. And for the past 82...
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New School Board member receives liaison assignments

New Arlington School Board member Bethany Sutton has her assignments. School Board members on Feb. 2 are expected to approve...
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