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Mount Vernon Letter: Establish Ground Rules
Letter to the Editor
Clarification on one issue might help people decide how to vote on the meal tax referendum.
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Alexandria: School Redistricting Forums Begin
Reading between the lines.
After 17 years of static school lines, Alexandria City Public Schools is making motions to begin the process of redistricting. By the start of the 2018 school year, new school lines that incorporate two new schools and other expansion projects will cause shifts in school populations across the city.
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Alexandria: National Award for Police Officer
After tragedy, Evans works to transform his community.
Alexandria Police Officer Bennie Evans was one of 12 police officers from across the country to receive the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Services in Community Policing. Evans, a regular at any event where the community interacts with the city or police, was noted for his voluntary participation in police and local non-profit projects and for his successful de-escalation of numerous calls about violence and attempted suicide.
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Alexandria People at Work: Shaping Her Life, Her Art
Renee Altman wedges off a large chunk of high-fired stoneware clay and puts it on the workbench. "It's like kneading dough. I usually do this 100 times." Altman owns The Clay Queen Pottery on Mt. Vernon Avenue.
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Alexandria Snapshot: Pink Badges For Awareness
Sheriff Dana Lawhorne has authorized deputies to wear pink badges to show their support in the fight against breast cancer.
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Alexandria Snapshot: Ethiopian New Year
Grammy-nominated, Ethiopian-born singer and songwriter Wayna served as mistress of ceremonies.
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Alexandria Letter: New Names For Highway
Letter to the Editor
The decision has been taken to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway.
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Alexandria Letter: Lose More Parking?
Letter to the Editor
Over the past several years the City of Alexandria and the Washington Area Metro system have been planning to alter the current configuration of the “bus loop” at the King Street Metro Station.
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Alexandria Letter: Celebrate Yorktown Victory
Letter to the Editor
Gen. Charles Cornwallis’ surrender to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19, 1781, ended serious fighting during the American Revolution and paved the way for the Treaty of Paris which recognized American independence. It was signed on Sept. 3, 1783 by representatives of King George III and John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and David Hartley.
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Alexandria Letter: Man-made Traffic Disaster
Letter to the Editor
In the spring the Transportation Planning Division in the city disregarded widespread public opposition and decided to suppress one lane in each direction of King Street between the T.C. Williams High School and Janney's Lane in favor of creating bike lanes.
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Alexandria Appetite: Mystery and History Mix in Port City-Gadsby’s Event
Port City Brewing, Gadsby’s Tavern, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church commemorate 200 years since Female Stranger’s death.
Long before Alexandria’s current heyday, when the Port City was in the middle of becoming a port city, a mystery woman came to Gadsby’s Tavern with her gentleman caller, became ill, and died, her final resting place the St. Paul’s Cemetery. “To the memory of a Female Stranger,” the gravestone reads in part, launching two centuries’ worth of lore and theory about her identity, her companion, and her presence in Alexandria in the first place.
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Alexandria Snapshot: Supporting MDA
The Fraternal Order of Eagles ALVA Auxiliary 871 of Alexandria presented a $3,000 grant to Tiffany Tillotsos on Sept. 28 to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Greater Washington summer camp program. Above are Tillotsos, Auxiliary President Bonnie Rathbone and Auxiliary Secretary Jean Oliver. See www.FOE871.com
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Alexandria: Bragg To Highlight Redskins Night
Sportsman’s Club to honor Athletes of the Month Oct. 18.
Former Washington Redskins punter Mike Bragg will be the featured speaker at the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club annual Redskins Night Oct. 18 at the Old Dominion Boat Club.
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Alexandria Column: Building a System for Early Education
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This past month marked a return to school for elementary and secondary students. At the same time, more than 700 of our city’s youngest students started the school year in publicly supported early childhood classrooms.
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Alexandria Column: Bike Patrols Take Shelter’s Officers Closer to Animals
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That bicyclist riding in front of you on the bike trail in Alexandria might be an Animal Services Officer on duty.
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Centreville: ‘A Great Resource in our Community’
CIF event celebrates diversity, honors achievement.
The Centreville Immigration Forum (CIF) is dedicated to helping local immigrants find work and better their lives. So it was fitting that the theme for its second annual dinner was “Celebrating Our Global Community.”
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Come One, Come All to Centreville Day
Fun-filled, community celebration is this Saturday.
A fusion of community camaraderie, history and fun for all ages, the 24th annual Centreville Day celebration is this Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., in Historic Centreville Park, 5714 Mount Gilead Road (off Braddock Road, across Route 29 from the IHOP).
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Potomac Column: Responding to Excessive Aircraft Noise
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Montgomery County Council Vice President Roger Berliner, who chairs the council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee, made the following statement regarding the recent increase in significant aircraft noise from planes departing from and arriving to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that is impacting residents of the county.
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Potomac Poem: Ghost Pumpkin
There was a little pumpkin that lived in a patch, It was round and big and I knew it was the one I wanted to snatch.
