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Sorensen Oldest Mexican Train Competitor at 96

She already competed this year in the 60-meter track, bowling and cribbage.

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It’s a Wild Day in the Neighborhood in Alexandria

Forming lasting relationships with all our wild neighbors.

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ACCT Presents ‘The Giver’

Delivers a message about choice and being able to give and receive love in a utopian world.

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High Interest, Big Money

Lenders of last resort in Alexandria try to buy influence in Richmond.

Alexandria has eight car-title lending locations and two payday lenders, plus a growing number of companies offering online loans at nosebleed interest rates. It’s an industry that’s been under fire in recent years, and now campaign-finance disclosures show these companies are spreading their money around to Democrats and Republicans in an effort to influence the next General Assembly.