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• Options for celebrating Cinco de Mayo in Arlington this week

  01-05-2023 21:55 via arlnow.com
  
  Tacos from Banditos Bar & Kitchen in Pentagon City (photo courtesy of Banditos & Kitchen)
  In the past, big crowds have converged on Arlington’s Mexican restaurants on Cinco de Mayo and this year will likely be no exception with a number of events going on across the county.
  Friday, May 5 marks the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over France in 1862’s Battle of Puebla. While considered a relatively minor holiday in Mexico, Cinco de Mayo in the United States has become a
  
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• ACPD: ART bus driver seriously hurt after being assaulted by rider

  01-05-2023 20:55 via arlnow.com
  
  ART bus (file photo)
  An ART bus driver suffered serious injuries last night after being assaulted by a rider along Columbia Pike, police say.
  The driver was reported to be bleeding from the mouth when police and medics were dispatched to the intersection of Columbia Pike and S. Dinwiddie Street just after 10:45 p.m. Sunday. It’s unclear what led to the attack.
  The suspect was “leaving a public transit bus when he assaulted the driver,” according to today’s Arlington Count
  
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• Cookie shop Chip City aiming to open in Clarendon by the fall

  01-05-2023 19:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Chip City is raising its flag in Clarendon.
  The New York City-based cookie shop is making its move into Arlington by opening up at the Crossing Clarendon at 2700 Clarendon Blvd. It is setting up shop near the back of the development, a few doors down from Barnes & Noble and next to the recently opened cosmetic dermatology business Ever/Body.
  The plan is to start baking by the fall, CEO Peter Phillips told ARLnow.
  Chip City is known for its “big, gooey five and half ounce cookie,”
  
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• Afomia Organic Market opens on Columbia Pike, serving the Ethiopian and vegan community

  01-05-2023 17:45 via arlnow.com
  
  (Updated at 5:25 p.m.) A new Ethiopian market has opened along Columbia Pike.
  Afomia Organic Market at 4105 Columbia Pike opened its doors late last week, co-owner Shah Feyisa confirmed to ARLnow.
  The market is in a shopping center near the corner of S. George Mason Drive and Columbia Pike in the Alcova Heights neighborhood. It is two doors down from Papa Deeno’s, a family-owned halal pizza shop that opened last year. Afomia is in a 960-square-foot space that was formerly occupied by a hai
  
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• More than 1,000 people received homelessness services last year in Arlington

  01-05-2023 17:00 via arlnow.com
  
  A sleeping bag and roll of toilet paper in an alcove of the elevated walkway in Rosslyn (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
  Arlington County says it provided assistance to 1,070 people who were experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing housing last year.
  This number is five times higher than the number of people found living outside or in a shelter one night in January 2022. One night last winter, as part of the “point-in-time” count, 182 people did not have permanent, stable housing,
  
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• Trader Joe’s appears to be coming to Crystal City

  01-05-2023 16:00 via arlnow.com
  
  2450 Crystal Drive in 2022 (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
  (Updated at 11 a.m.) Crystal City, for years a grocery desert, appears set to land a coveted Trader Joe’s store.
  A construction permit application has been filed for 2450 Crystal Drive, one of the newly-upgraded Century Center towers just south of 23rd Street S. It calls for “landlord prep work to prepare for new Trader Joe’s Grocery Store.”
  “Garage Levels, B1 and B2, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor are affected,&
  
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