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Horan Discusses Effects on Legal System

Snyder Cutting Triggers Federal Investigation

Park Service may have violated National Environmental Policy Act.

Snyder Cutting Triggers Federal Investigation

New Options for Food: Three New Restaurants Open in Cabin John Village Shopping Center

City of Alexandria, State Update Emergency Ordinances

Metro reduces service; city COVID-19 cases hit 13.

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New Enclosure to Resolve Trashy Issue

County Voters to Decide on Road Funding

Bond could generate $165 million for transportation improvements, but would that help?

County Voters to Decide on Road Funding

About Centre View, a Connection Newspaper

Newcomers and Community Guide 2012-2013

The paper you're reading, the Centre View is one of 15 papers published by the independent, locally owned Local Media Connection LLC, serving the suburbs of Metropolitan Washington in Northern Virginia and Potomac, Md. Our flagship paper, the Alexandria Gazette Packet, is one of the oldest continuously publishing papers in the country, beginning publication in 1784. This spring, our papers won some very special awards, including the Virginia Press Association Award for Journalistic Integrity and Community Service, and the Fairfax County Media Partnership Award, along with dozens of others.

How Crandal Mackey Fought Vice

“In Shotgun Justice: One Prosecutor’s Crusade Against Crime and Corruption in Alexandria & Arlington,” Pope has come up with 126 pages of facts worthy of inclusion in all schools, public and private.

Alexandria Column: We Pulled Together and We Pulled Through

Commentary

Two quick updates. First, we had a little snowstorm recently. Okay, not so little since we got 22 inches of snow in about 36 hours, but who’s counting? It was in fact the worst storm since the Knickerbocker Storm of 1922, and we made it through without a fatality.

Seeing How Slaves Lived

In observance of African American History Month, Mount Vernon Estate offers a Slave Life specialty tour once a day throughout the month of February. The tour provides insight into the lives and contributions of the slaves who built and operated the plantation home of George and Martha Washington. The tour includes living quarters, working gardens as well as reproduction clothing, tools, furniture, cookware, ceramics, and children’s toys of the many enslaved individuals who lived there. Inclusion of the slave quarters provides a complete history of what life was like on the plantation; both those who owned it as well as those who toiled there. While there, visitors may run into the last serving valet to the late General Washington, Christopher Sheels (portrayed by Jonathan Wood). He walks the plantation as one of the important people from Washington’s world. More than 300 slaves “contributed heavily to the success of Mount Vernon,” Wood said. Seeing a live actor portray the character of one of the enslaved individuals guides visitors toward an understanding that Washington, while a great national hero, was also a conflicted individual. “General Washington did not free his slaves until his death” and the display of the slave quarters is a “part of telling his whole story,” Wood added.

Alexandria Column: Changing Lives, One Mentor at a Time

Commentary – Changing Lives, One Mentor at a Time

This week, students across Alexandria – and across our country – are “back to school,” a phrase which undoubtedly conjures up a wide range of emotions, images, and memories. Think: first day jitters, school lunches, and homework. For me, though, “back to school” invokes the image a unique type of person: a mentor.

House Paint and Risk Takers at McLean Project for the Arts

Area artists exhibit at "Strictly Painting 11."

Alexandria Court Sides with City in Lawsuit Challenging Notification of Waterfront Plan

Three Alexandria residents and one Fairfax County resident brought suit questioning legal notice.

Alexandria officials met the minimum standard for notification of a public hearing on the waterfront plan, according to a ruling this week by Alexandria Circuit Court Chief Judge Lisa Kemler.