Alexandria: Birders Protest Chemical Treatment at Monticello Park
Warbler watch set to begin in this migration spot.
It's almost March 1, the official beginning of this year's warbler watch at Monticello Park in Alexandria.
Alexandria: Tucker Modified Calendar Yields a Win-Win
Intersessions provide remediation or enhancement.
The school year is just half over. Rene Paschal, principal at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School, says the school's modified school calendar has worked well for everyone from school children to teachers to parents.
Alexandria: Jinks Presents Budget Plan
2017 proposed budget focuses on funding schools, but sets aside pre-k programs.
With Fairfax County looking at raising its real estate tax rate by 3 cents and Arlington County lowering it by a half cent, the main theme of City Manager Mark Jinks’ FY 2017 budget was surviving somewhere in the middle while providing funding to enhance schools, the fire department, and parking.
Alexandria: T.C. Williams Girls Win Conference 7 Championship
Titans, down to five players, win in double overtime.
The T.C. Williams girls' basketball team won the Conference 7 championship.
Alexandria Letter: Examining ARHA Proposal
Letter to the Editor
We are writing in regards to the recent Alexandria City Council decision to deny rezoning [editor’s note: since rescinded] for the Ramsey Homes, owned by the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority (ARHA).
Alexandria Appetite: Three Coffee Shops to Get the Chill Out
Beat the wintertime blues with some hot coffee around town.
The faces of Alexandrians across the city display their query plainly: Will this snowy winter ever end? While waiting for warmer climes to make their appearance this spring, here are three venues to warm up with a hot cup of joe in the meantime.
Alexandria: Port City Playhouse Stages ‘Fool for Love’
Play is an exploration of pleasures, perils and consequences of sexual chemistry.
Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" will be staged by Port City Playhouse from Feb. 26 to March 12 in Alexandria.
Alexandria Home Sales: January, 2016
In January, 2016, 97 Alexandria homes sold between $2,785,000-$135,000.
Alexandria Home Sales: January, 2016
Alexandria Letter: We Are All Americans
Letter to the Editor
If George Washington was alive today, and someone asked him if he was a Democrat or a Republican, what would he say?
Alexandria Letter: Skepticism Warranted
Letter to the Editor
Councilmembers Lovain and Smedberg are right to be skeptical of the proposal for a City Ethics Commission.
Alexandria Letter: ARHA Proposals Flaunt Regulations
Letter to the Editor
I would like to share my opinion on disturbing development proposal of Ramsey homes in City of Alexandria.
Alexandria Letter: Expand Advisory Group
Letter to the Editor
I am a native Virginian, a retired Army Veteran, a resident of Fairfax County since 1995 and a long-time member of the Bull Run Civil War Round Table.
Alexandria: TC Honors Its Titans
Hall of Fame inductees include serviceman killed in Iraq and “Remember the Titans” coach Herman Boone.
For one of T.C. Williams High School’s biggest celebrities, Coach Herman Boone made a quiet entrance to the Alexandria City Public Schools Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony. He worked his way apart from the crowd, finding and greeting some of the men he used to coach in football. Boone was among the athletes inducted and coaches honorarily inducted into the ACPS Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Feb. 12.
Alexandria: And Now for Something Different–Consensus
Council and School Board agree on capacity priority.
Here’s how budget sessions go: the Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) puts together a list of funding requests. The city puts its budget together and tells the school system to get its numbers lower. There’s some haggling over prices and priorities, with the city eventually transferring a little more money into the schools and the schools announcing cuts to various programs or plans to reach the city’s funding requirements.
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