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Summer Camp: One-on-One with Alexandria Shelter Animals
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Some Alexandria youths headed off to day camp this summer didn't learn anything about baseball or boating. They spent their hours getting to know the Vola Lawson Animal Shelter on Eisenhower Avenue and learning a little more about animals.
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Column: Now Hiring
The importance of employment for Alexandria’s homeless population.
Imagine having to choose between paying rent and feeding your family tonight.
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Alexandria: Learn How To Dance in the Rain
Joyce Rawlings teaches to persevere.
If it has to do with families in Alexandria, Joyce Rawlings was (and is) there! Her volunteer and professional work has led to myriad parent, school and community initiatives and to her selection as a 2015 Living Legend of Alexandria.
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Little Theater of Alexandria Stages ‘Laughing Stock’
This play-within-a-play comedy promises tons of chuckles.
The Little Theater of Alexandria (LTA) is staging "Laughing Stock," a play-within-a-play, from Sept. 5-26.
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Alexandria People at Work: Artist Clarke Says The Painting Takes Over
Lesley Clarke brushes an amber brown across the large canvas in Studio 341 in the Alexandria Torpedo Factory.
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Close Call with West Nile for Alexandria
Observant citizens prompt removal of mosquito breeding ground
With construction for the Indigo Hotel occurring in the area, it might have been easy to dismiss the pit of standing water at the corner of Duke and The Strand.
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Alexandria: New Defibrillators around City
Area incident inspires expansion.
In January, Judge Thomas J. Kelly Jr. in Arlington saved a man’s life.
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Alexandria: Skirmishes over Business Proposals in Del Ray
Planning Commission navigates through conflicts.
Within an hour of returning to session: businesses, the public, and the Planning Commission were at odds. After a two-month summer break, it was business as usual in the Sept. 1 Alexandria Planning Commission meeting, where some big changes for small businesses were proposed in Del Ray. All three of the proposals centered around the growth of businesses and a school in Del Ray.
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Alexandria: 'Young At Art' Senior Exhibit Celebrates 29 Years
When artist Wilda Gadzik finally got around to taking a formal art class as a resident of Goodwin House, it wasn’t her familiar paintbrush she was told to reach for. Instead, the 87-year-old was handed a pencil.
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Alexandria: ‘Building Better Futures’
Campagna Center receives $25,000 SunTrust grant.
Dan O’Neill, president and CEO of SunTrust Greater Washington/Maryland Division, presented a check for $25,000 on behalf of the SunTrust Foundation to The Campagna Center’s Building Better Futures program for at-risk teens. “Our partnership with The Campagna Center goes back ma
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Mount Vernon: Vanderhye, New Principal at Whitman Middle
With international experience, Vanderhye brings 38 years of education to the job.
With 38 years in education, Roger Vanderhye, 59, of McLean was named new principal July 1 of Whitman Middle School, at 2500 Parkers Lane in Alexandria, replacing former principal Jean Bell.
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Letter: Time to Tack Against the Wind
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It is rare to receive a letter complimenting a letter, but that’s what just happened, when I received an email from someone who has lived in Alexandria for 30 years and who understands politics and political consequences better than I.
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Letter: Determined Republicans
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On the front page of your last issue you describe Republican candidate for Council Van Fleet as the “leading spokesperson for residents of Old Town.”
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Letter: Council and Confederacy
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As part of Alexandria’s Commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, in June, Kim Holien gave a compelling talk about Civil War officers, six Union and six Confederate, for whom some of our west end streets were named; it noted that both sides included thorough rascals.
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Letter: Common Sense Gun Measures
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Our thoughts and prayers are with state of Virginia and the families, friends, and colleagues of Alison Parker and Adam Ward killed on live television.
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Column: Warming to Solar Power
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Last week, the State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved an innovative solar program proposed by Dominion Resources, a project that will enhance consumer choices and facilitate clean, renewable energy production for many Virginians.
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Centreville Field Hockey Goes 4-0 at Blast ALS Tourney
Wildcats outscore opponents 7-0 at Lake Braddock SS.
The Centreville field hockey team went 4-0 at the Blast ALS tournament.