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Plus: Get ready for Oktoberfest!

August 25, 2025

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In today’s ARL Scoop:
📰 Dog licensing + new tech jobs
🧃 ARL Tech teacher recognized
📆 Puzzle exchanges + Labor Day bell ringing

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📰 News Bites 
Quick local updates

🍣 Oasis: The Listening Bar Opens
Arlington’s newest sushi-and-vinyl spot, Oasis: The Listening Bar, pairs high-fidelity tunes with Japanese food, sake, and whisky flights. DJs spin vinyl, live bands perform, and a menu of sashimi, maki, and decadent small plates (think foie gras and 24K gold) make it a feast for the senses. Find it at 2940 Clarendon Blvd.

🍺 Celebrate Oktoberfest in Arlington
Arlington and Northern Virginia will host Oktoberfest events this fall, including Clarendon Ballroom’s BierDeck (Sept. 27) and Blocktoberfest (Oct. 18), Shipgarten Tysons (Sept. 20), McLean Kids Fest (Oct. 19), Holy Trinity Fun Run, and Alexandria’s John Carlyle Square (Sept. 17).

🍽️ Shuttered ARL Cafe Serves Hope
When Café by Kitchen of Purpose closed in January, it reopened with a new mission: hosting monthly four-course dinners for neighbors experiencing homelessness. Partnering with PathForward, local chefs serve meals with care and dignity, giving guests not just food, but self-respect, hope, and a reminder that they matter.

🐶 Arlington May Simplify Dog Licensing
Arlington is working to streamline dog licensing, moving from a clunky two-step online process toward a one-time system. Lifetime licenses cost $30, service animals are exempt, and compliance remains far from 100% among dog owners.

🀄️ ARL Local Launches Mahjong Studio
Arlingtonian Tori Rittinger, founder of Talk Tiles to Me, is opening the region’s first mahjong studio next month in Falls Church. The 1,000-square-foot space will feature themed game rooms, drop-in play, kids’ camps, and even a mahjong brunch club.

👷‍♀️ Construction Hits Businesses
Columbia Pike’s $161M multimodal project has frustrated small businesses, with owners reporting 40–50% profit drops. Detours, rough roads, and limited parking are keeping customers away. County expects major work done by end of 2025, with finishing touches into 2026.

💡 Cailabs Brings Tech Jobs to Rosslyn
French laser-tech company Cailabs US Inc. is moving its U.S. headquarters from D.C. to 1530 Wilson Blvd. in North Rosslyn, investing $300K and creating 16 new jobs. Specializing in optical ground stations, fiber components, and industrial laser products, the move underscores Arlington’s growing role as a hub for high-tech innovation.

🏥 VHC Health Recognized
Arlington’s own VHC Health, founded in 1944, earned a spot on Forbes’ 2025 ranking of Virginia’s best employers. The list, based on employee surveys evaluating culture, pay, advancement opportunities, and workplace fairness, highlights top companies across industries—showing Arlington’s healthcare sector is thriving.

🚧 I-395 Lanes Closed Through 28th
VDOT says southbound lanes near the Pentagon will be closed nightly through Thursday, Aug. 28, for bridge repairs. At least one lane will remain open each night.

🧃 Mini News Bites
Updates for the Kiddos

📊 ARL Teacher Empowers Students
Arlington Magazine spotlighted Gerri Maskelony, who teaches math, statistics, and music appreciation at Arlington Tech. A former statistician and Fulbright awardee, she inspires students to pair enthusiasm with analytical rigor. One highlight: her students pitched education tech ideas at a state conference—and landed paid internships.

📵 Students Keep Phones in Pouches
This school year, some Arlington high schools—including Wakefield, Washington-Liberty, Yorktown, H-B Woodlawn, and Arlington Career Center—are requiring students to store their phones in locked pouches from bell to bell. The move aims to reduce distractions, bullying, and social friction, though some students worry about emergency contact and personal freedom.

🚦 School Zone Speed Cameras Return
Arlington resumes PhotoSPEED enforcement August 25, adding 10 new cameras for a total of 28. A 30-day warning period precedes $100 fines for violators. Cameras operate during school zone flashing lights.

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