Opinion: Supporting Key Values: Service, Peace, Sacrifice
60th Anniversary of the Peace Corps
Peace Corps
Opinion: Maintaining Our Democracy
Democracy
Free Halloween Lyft Rides
Halloween rides
House Seat Shuffle
Former CIA branch chief J.D. Maddox to face Vice Mayor Elizabeth Bennett-Parker.
In Richmond, the 45th House District is known as a cursed seat because of its dizzying turnover. After the retirement of longtime Del. Marian Van Landingham (D-45) in 2006, the district has blazed through three delegates in rapid succession. Now the seat is open once again after the incumbent, former radio talk show host Mark Levine, lost the primary when his name appeared on the ballot twice because he was trying to simultaneously win reelection to the House while also snagging the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
And Chaos for Those Who Live on Lee Street
Lee Street
Contaminated Legacy
From slave plantation to industrial pollution, a hidden history of North Old Town.
The shuttered power plant dominating the landscape in North Old Town has layers of industrial pollution, a hidden history buried under the contaminated soil of the Potomac River Generating Station. Even before the coal-fired power plant was constructed in 1949, the property was home to the American Chlorophyll Company and Potomac River Clay Works. That means the long and complicated task known as "remediating" the property could mean removing everything from coal ash and mercury to industrial fertilizer and hazardous metals.
Offer to Buy River Farm Inches Up, But Declined by Seller
NOVA Parks is still part of the future at River Farm.
On Sunday evening, Sept. 26, the American Horticultural Society voted against an offer from NOVA Parks to purchase River Farm during a board meeting of the American Horticultural Society, but they are leaving it open for more offers.
Art on the Avenue
300 artists, including budding art merchant Noura Barka, will be at this year’s Art on the Avenue.
Art on the Avenue
Alexandria Couple Donates Edward R. Murrow World War II Microphone to the National Press Club
Murrow Microphone
Documentary Explores a Place Formerly Known as ‘The Pits.’
Documentarian is also a reporter for the Mount Vernon Gazette.
The Pits
Come Celebrate, Curtain Going Up
Live, in-person show-time returns to Center for the Arts.
Live, in-person show-time returns to Center for the Arts.