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• Kids experience soccer in a new way with Golden Boot

  12-04-2024 21:00 via arlnow.com
  
  McLean-based Golden Boot Soccer has been a leader in youth soccer skill development and fun for nearly 30 years, and this summer they’re bringing their popular summer camps back to Arlington.
  Their half-day and full-day programs for ages 5 to 13 combine positive, professional trainers with engaging activities and challenges, often featuring their signature cogno-technical approach.
  “Cognitive training is a fancy way of saying we train the body and brain together,” says Golden
  
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• JUST IN: Police investigating racist graffiti on roof of local middle school

  12-04-2024 19:55 via arlnow.com
  
  Tributes to the students who integrated the former Stratford Junior High School, outside of Dorothy Hamm Middle School in 2023 (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
  Arlington County police are investigating “extensive” graffiti, including a racist word, on the roof of Dorothy Hamm Middle School.
  Families were informed of the vandalism via email yesterday.
  The principal of the school in the Cherrydale neighborhood, at 4100 Vacation Lane, noted that “the students involved have been ident
  
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• With Ballston Macy’s now closed, developer eyes late 2024 start to demolition

  12-04-2024 17:45 via arlnow.com
  
  The Ballston Macy’s store is no more.
  The retailer shuttered within the past couple of weeks, after a store closing sale that lasted about two months. Now it’s just a matter of time until the building is torn down.
  A planned redevelopment of the site as a high-rise with over 500 apartments and a grocery store is expected to begin later this year, we’re told.
  “We are currently working through the processing of project permits and approvals,” said a spokesperson for
  
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• A bank and a casual American restaurant are coming to this Clarendon shopping center

  12-04-2024 16:45 via arlnow.com
  
  The Crossing Clarendon (staff photo)
  A Citibank and a New York City-based American restaurant are coming to Clarendon.
  Both businesses are slated to open in The Crossing Clarendon in several months, the shopping center’s general manager, EJ Enciso, told ARLnow.
  The Citibank branch, scheduled to open its doors in the fourth quarter of this year, will be sliding into a 4,001-square-foot space previously occupied by an Orvis sporting goods store at 2879 Clarendon Blvd.
  The bank currently
  
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• Video: Towing company speaks out against lawmaker who sponsored new towing law

  12-04-2024 15:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Advanced Towing lot in Ballston in 2023 (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
  There’s something of a war of words going on between the sponsor and a key target of a soon-to-be new towing law.
  Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) recently signed off on two pieces of legislation — both backed by Arlington lawmakers — allowing Northern Virginia local governments to set tighter restrictions on tow operators. HB 959, introduced by Del. Alfonso Lopez (D), allows localities in Northern Virginia to pa
  
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• ARLnow Daily Debrief for Apr 11, 2024

  12-04-2024 02:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Good Thursday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.News recap
  The following articles were published earlier today — Apr 11, 2024.9:30 am: Cartoon: “Now it feels like home!” |Comments
  10:30 am: Barbershop aiming to help clients ‘create a masterpiece’ is coming to Clarendon |Comments
  11:30 am: Military Children World Expo 2024 to be held at Pentagon City mall later this month |C
  
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