Injured Animal? Meet Arlington’s Wildlife Rescue Experts

I can now add “mouse hero” to my résumé.

A few months ago, we discovered that a deer mouse had built a nest for her two babies in the grill on our deck. My children were immediately smitten, so we skipped cooking steaks and left the tiny family alone to flourish. But when we checked on our guests a few days later, the babies had fallen into the grill’s grease trap. One was dead and the other, coated in grease, was struggling. The mom was gone.

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Fighting Fentanyl: What NoVA Schools Are Doing

He’d been making rounds in the cafeteria during lunchtime in late August 2022 and arrived at the restroom to find a student slumped and unconscious in a stall. Three people were performing first aid to no avail.

“I have never had the experience of seeing someone in front of me pass away, and that’s what appeared to be happening,” Khoshaba says. “It was easily, hands-down the most traumatic thing I’ve ever gone through.”

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Arlington Actor Iain Armitage Bids Farewell to ‘Young Sheldon’

It may be tough to separate actor Iain Armitage from Sheldon Cooper, the character he’s played on Young Sheldon since 2017, but there are ways to tell them apart. For one, the 15-year-old Armitage adores animals; Sheldon fears them. Sheldon grew up in the fictional east Texas town of Medford; Armitage calls Arlington home.

Still, Armitage says he will miss the character when the series ends in May.

“It’s very hard because it’s been basically half my life,” he says. “I’m of course very sad but also happy, and I feel so grateful that I’ve gotten so much wonderful time with our incredible cast and crew and writers.”

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NoVA’s Young, Elite Athletes Train Intensely to Make Top-Tier College Teams

On Friday nights, when most teenagers are gathering with friends to fire up the Xbox, 18-year-old Kellen Clark is practicing his swing and pitch at R&D Baseball Academy in Herndon. During the three-month spring baseball season, he spends about an hour at the training facility after two hours of practice with his team at Fairfax County’s Robinson Secondary School.

Clark is one of NoVA’s elite athletes, those who train intensely to improve their odds of getting into top college sports programs.

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Mapping Arlington’s History of Racially Restrictive Neighborhoods

Northern Virginia’s fraught history of racial discrimination is well-documented. Now, three researchers have mapped out just how prevalent “whites-only” housing was in the early 20th century—and how those exclusionary policies shaped the communities we live in today. Their hope is that their work will inspire current residents to investigate and learn from their property’s past.

Covenants preventing non-White people from owning or occupying land were once commonplace in this area. “[The practice] was pretty evenly spread across Arlington,” says Krystyn Moon, a researcher and a professor of history and American studies at the University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredericksburg. “More lots than not seem to have [had] them,” she says, citing well-known Arlington neighborhoods such as Bellevue Forest, Douglas Park, Arlington Forest and Addison Heights.

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Is It Recyclable? A Visual Guide

Today is Earth Day, so recycling may be top of mind, although it’s arguably one of the most best-known ways to make a positive impact on the environment every day.

A quick primer on how recycling works in local jurisdictions: Our area conducts single-stream (also called comingled) recycling, meaning all recyclables go into one bin that you drag to the curb once a week. Trucks collect the contents and transport them to a Materials Recovery Facility, or MRF, where the items take a ride on a conveyor belt and get sorted by machines and human workers. Machines then compress the piles of paper, plastic, aluminum, glass and other materials and package them in bales for sale to companies that give them new life in another form.

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Job opportunities targeting workers with ADHD and autism gain traction

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