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When Amy Franklin, 30, bought her one-bedroom condominium in Arlington County’s Colonial Village seven years ago, she found the neighborhood’s pretty 1930s buildings and graceful expanses of lawn pleasingly familiar . “I was 23, just out of college, and it felt like a college campus,” she says. Other Colonial Village residents say the community, with more than 50 acres of red- brick buildings linked by paths that wind among plentiful trees and landscaped lawns, is “parklike,” “serene” and an “oasis” in Arlington’s busy and increasingly high-rise Rosslyn-Ballston corridor. “The location can’t be beat: It’s closer to downtown than parts of Northwest [Washington], and you can walk to two Metros,” says Bob Somers, 54, a government attorney who has lived there since 1992. “But what makes it so nice is the parklike setting. They would never build like that now.” As it turns out, people have always clamored to live in Colonial Village. The community was built as a rental complex by deve...

RFP Staff ♦ Tonight about 8:10 p.m. shots were heard at Colonial Village Apartments in the 200 block of West “D” Avenue in Salisbury, N.C. The gunshot victim, Joshua Victor Harrison , 32, was hit in the back by a shotgun blast during an attempted robbery by a black assailant with short dreads and a dark hoodie sweatshirt . Harrison initially answered the front door and turning, attempted to run when he saw the robber was armed with a sawed-off shotgun. When the Salisbury Police arrived , they found the Harrison bleeding profusely from a back wound, yet able to respond to questions. They found him a distance from the actual shooting on a porch at 306 West Avenue “D”. Joshua Victor Harrison : Transported initially to Novant Health Rowan Regional Medical Center , Harrsion was evacuated by helicopter to Carolinas Medical Center Northeast in Concord. His condition is said to be stable and not life threatening. He was slated for surgeries from possible buckshot wounds. Police cars lined...