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Alexandria Letter: Importance of Neighborhoods

Letter to the Editor

At present Alexandria is going through a process to develop a set of “Strategic Plan Goals” for 2016-2022.

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Alexandria Letter: Planting Trees Too Closely?

Letter to the Editor

There has been much new construction around the city in the past few years.

Alexandria Letter: Evaluate Each Felon

Letter to the Editor

I am disappointed in the Alexandria Gazette Packet’s editorial stance [“Voting for Former Felons and Others,” July 21], joining our current governor’s campaign to restore voting rights to 206,000 convicted felons.

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Alexandria Letter: Attend Irish Festival

Letter to the Editor

The Ballyshaners are thrilled to be hosting the Irish Festival on Saturday, Aug. 13 at Waterfront Park.

Alexandria Letter: Another Hotel?

Letter to the Editor

A proposed 6- or 7- story 124-room hotel Plan 1 has been submitted to Planning and Zoning on June of this year by developers to be built at 1617 and 1711 King Street in the Upper King street area, a few blocks from the King Street Metro station.

Alexandria Letter: Support Local Police

Letter to the Editor

Recently an Alexandria Police Department (APD) officer was denied service at a local restaurant in Alexandria solely because she was in uniform and the restaurant’s chef took umbrage with that fact and refused to cook her order.

Alexandria Letter: Council Needs Discipline

Letter to the Editor

Each time I pick up the newspaper I become more depressed. This city is poorly managed. Council is hugely committed to the affordable housing cause.

Alexandria Letter: Abuse of Power

Letter to the Editor

I commend the Alexandria Gazette Packet for drawing so cogent a nexus between tax and rent increases, complete with charts which scare off many a local weekly.

Alexandria Poetry Conversations: ‘The Peace of Wild Things’

Hello Alexandria! I am thrilled to have been appointed as the Poet Laureate of Alexandria.

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Alexandria Appetite: 3 Gold-Medal Spots to Watch the Olympics

Looking for a restaurant to whet your appetite while you cheer on the USA? Here are three at the top of the list.

After the usual four-year absence, Summer Olympics mania is ready for liftoff again. Looking for a change of scenery to watch your favorite sports? Here are three restaurants that are sure to be gold-medal bets.

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Alexandria: Resurrecting Fort Ward

Committee pieces together the controversial history of historic Alexandria site.

Alexandria’s Fort Ward has a long history, but resources to commemorate that history are limited.

Alexandria Home Sales: June, 2016

In June, 2016, 281 Alexandria homes sold between $1,795,000-$99,000.

Alexandria Home Sales: June, 2016

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Alexandria Column: Youth Education — Keeping Kids Motivated

Commentary-Community Lodgings

Summer is often anything but a vacation for low-income students, according to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA).

A Mother’s Grief: Arrest in Hall Homicide

An arrest in Saquan Hall homicide brings cycle of revenge to a close, but no satisfaction.

In the days after Saquan Hall’s murder, his mother, Patrice Hall, learned details about the shooting. She learned how he was shot once, stumbled, fell, and how the man who killed her son came up and shot him again in the head. The details, Patrice Hall says, that no mother should ever have to learn about her son.

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New Heights for Alexandria

Impending 355 foot residential tower is just the start for Carlyle’s upward growth.

While arguments rage in Old Town over three- and four-story buildings, at the western end of Eisenhower Avenue the city is moving forward with plans for some of the tallest buildings in Northern Virginia.