In six to eight weeks, Metro officials will find out if the Silver Line extension to Dulles Airport will have have to delay its projected 2020 opening due to flawed concrete slabs that were used in its construction. A lawsuit accusing the concrete supplier of faking tests to pass slabs that are prone to cracking broke in May.
(WTOP)
Today is National Doughnut Day, and in celebration area shops are offering related deals, among them: free doughnuts with the purchase of a beverage at Dunkin Donuts, free doughnuts with no purchase necessary at Krispy Kreme and free cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar or plain doughnuts at Duck Donuts, no purchase necessary.
(INSIDENOVA)
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is looking for volunteers for Saturday’s 30th Clean the Bay Day in Virginia.
(WTOP)
Next week, the Arlington County School Board will vote on whether to remove “Lee” from Washington-Lee High School‘s name due to its connection to Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
(WJLA)
Arlington County and the Rosslyn Business Improvement District‘s 30-foot-wide “parklet” opened on Thursday to promote green space in the area.
(ARL Now)
By spring 2019, a retirement community of 210 housing units, to be named Hunters Woods at Trails Edge, is expected to open.
(Reston Now)
Nationally, May’s unemployment rate reached 3.9 percent, the lowest its been since 2000, and economists are predicting that this year it may dip even lower, possibly to 3.5 percent, which hasn’t been the case since 1969.
(The Washington Post)
