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• Proposed senior living facility in Alcova Heights heads to County Board amid affordability, sustainability concerns

  10-10-2023 21:45 via arlnow.com
  
  A proposed senior living facility on S. Glebe Road is teed up for Arlington County Board approval this Saturday.
  Sunrise Senior Living proposes redeveloping a church in the Alcova Heights neighborhood with a 4-story, 99-unit building with 120 bedrooms and 53 parking spaces.
  The public and county review of its plans kicked off this February. During a meeting last Wednesday, the Planning Commission unanimously recommended the Board adopt the proposal from Sunrise.
  If the project is approved and co
  
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• Attention first time home buyers!

  10-10-2023 20:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Learn how to maximize your home search in our Home Buying Seminar! We will teach you the 7 steps of the home buying process and save you time, money, and stress!
  When: October 14, 10 a.m.Where: 1600 Wilson BLVD Arlington, VA 22209
  Competition in the DMV can be steady all year long… which can lead to trouble finding the right house, bidding wars, and tons of extra stress in your home search.
  Led by market expert Lacey Folweiler, real estate agent on the #1 team in the DMV, learn about the
  
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• Arlington National Cemetery to host free fall foliage tour this Friday

  10-10-2023 19:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Fall colors at the Arlington National Cemetery (via Arlington National Cemetery/Facebook)
  Arlington National Cemetery is offering a free guided walking tour this Friday to highlight its autumn foliage.
  Beyond serving as the final resting place for more than 400,000 military service members, the cemetery is also an accredited arboretum, home to over 500 species of trees, including maple, oak and sweetgum.
  “On this tour, you’ll learn about the cemetery’s Memorial Arboretum, a Lev
  
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• Ask Eli: Rent vs Buy — data to aid your decision

  10-10-2023 18:45 via arlnow.com
  
  This regularly scheduled sponsored Q&A column is written by Eli Tucker, Arlington-based Realtor and Arlington resident. Please submit your questions to him via email for response in future columns. Video summaries of some articles can be found on YouTube on the Eli Residential channel. Enjoy!
  Join Eli Tucker and ARLnow for a live discussion about the state of the local real estate market from 1-1:30 p.m. today. You can attend this live podcast recordi
  
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• County changes course on HOV and bus-only lane on Langston Blvd through Rosslyn

  10-10-2023 17:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Langston Blvd headed eastbound from N. Veitch Street to N. Lynn Street (via Google Maps)
  Arlington County has scrapped plans to make a dedicated high-occupancy vehicle and bus-only lane on Langston Blvd.
  Instead, it will take a new tack to improve bus reliability on the corridor, says Arlington Dept. of Environmental Services spokeswoman Claudia Pors.
  This winter and spring, the county will reprogram select traffic signals to give buses more time to clear an intersection, known as transit signal
  
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• Early morning armed carjacking pushes Arlington past 2022 total

  10-10-2023 16:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Police car speeding to a call at night (staff photo)
  The 15th carjacking of the year in Arlington — based on ARLnow’s count of public crime reports — happened early Monday morning in the Green Valley neighborhood.
  The incident happened around 3:20 a.m. on the 3200 block of 24th Street S., near the Shelton apartment complex.
  More from an Arlington County Police Department crime report:
  CARJACKING, 2023-10090040, 3200 block of 24th Street S. At approximately 3:21 a.m. o
  
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• Military funeral honors and flyover for Arlington Marine killed in Australia

  10-10-2023 16:00 via arlnow.com
  
  The following was written by Kevin M. Hymel of Arlington National Cemetery. It was linked in yesterday’s Morning Notes but is republished this morning with permission. Cpl. Collart grew up in Arlington and graduated from Washington-Liberty High School.
  Alexia Collart’s eyes filled with tears as she accepted the flag that had been draped over her son Marine Cpl. Spencer R. Collart’s casket. Her daughter Gweneth, sitting beside her, openly wept. Bart Collart, Cpl. Collart’s
  
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• ‘Horror and uncertainty’: Arlington woman caught in Jerusalem struggles to get home amid the fighting in Israel

  10-10-2023 03:40 via wtop.com
  
  Jane Petkofsky of Arlington, Virginia, said she arrived in Jerusalem last week to begin a weeklong vacation in the holy city with a friend when the attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas started Friday night.
  “This was Saturday afternoon at Ketef Hinnom, an archaeological site — burial chambers — near where I am staying,” Petkofsky told WTOP. (Courtesy Petkofsky)
  Petkofsky said the first sirens roused them on Saturday morning and everyone in her building headed into t
  
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