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Week in Alexandria

Alexandria's historically black American Legion Hall may be headed for the wrecking ball soon.

Smith Takes Helm at Cabin John

Paulette Smith is the new principal at Cabin John Middle School.

Smith Takes Helm at Cabin John

Two Tax Districts Planned for Two Phases

Saving a plan to pay for local portion of Dulles rail costs, after western landowners balk at paying for rail to Tysons.

Two Tax Districts Planned for Two Phases

Letter: Morrogh Must Be Held Accountable

Letter to the Editor

The Commonwealth Attorney of Fairfax County, Raymond F. Morrogh, has lately adopted the role of schoolyard bully who disguises his insecurities by picking on those he perceives as weak.

Two Vienna Students Named Semifinalists in Science Competition

Referred to as the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition, the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS), a program of Society for Science and the Public, has granted prize money to some of today’s leading thinkers and scientists, and two Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) students from Vienna are among just 300 high school seniors selected to move on to the semifinalist stage of the competition.

City in Violation of Its Charter

Citizens hampered from accessing departmental rules and regulations.

While Alexandria’s ordinances are enacted in public by the City Council and are readily accessible to the citizenry, usually in the form of “The Code of the City of Alexandria, 1981,” departments and offices across city government also promulgate official rules and regulations, but they are neither publicized nor readily accessible by the citizenry. This directly violates the express wording of the city’s charter.