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ALXnow Daily Debrief for May 13, 2026

By ALXnow.com

Good Wednesday evening, Alexandria. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.

🕗 News recap

The following articles were published earlier today — May 13, 2026.

Here are today’s most-read articles:

  1. UPDATE: Woman killed in Old Town North was walking with active pedestrian signal (8002 views)
  2. Morning Notes for May 13, 2026 (1188 views)
  3. Alexandria looks for creative parking solutions after closure of Market Square parking garage (998 views)

📅 Upcoming events

Here is what’s going on Thursday in Alexandria, from our event calendar.

☀️ Thursday’s forecast

Expect mostly sunny skies today with a high near 65°F and northwest winds at 11 to 14 mph, gusting up to 23 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 51°F, featuring northwest winds around 11 mph and gusts up to 18 mph. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

🌅 Tonight’s sunset

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Alexandria looks for creative parking solutions after closure of Market Square parking garage

By James Cullum
Alexandria City Council on May 12, 2026 (staff photo by James Cullum)

 

With the closure of the parking garage underneath City Hall, Alexandria is working on several creative solutions for a growing problem — parking in the heart of Old Town.

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Staff, families warn against budget cuts as Alexandria School Board seeks to fill $5.6M gap

By Emily Leayman
The Alexandria City School Board at the budget public hearing on May 12, 2026 (via Alexandria City Public Schools)

Concerns about budget cuts focused on student-facing positions and health care premium increases were raised at an Alexandria City School Board public hearing Tuesday (May 12) as the board seeks ways to fill a $5.6 million gap.

City Council’s $979.1 million Fiscal Year 2027 budget, adopted April 29, did not fill the $5.6 million gap the school system needs to fund its proposed $12.7 million collective bargaining agreement. After City Council’s budget approval, ACPS Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt presented a revised budget to the School Board on May 7.

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VRE pushes back road closure to late May for rail bridge work near Alexandria Union Station

By Emily Leayman
Alexandria Union Station sign (staff photo by Katie Taranto)

The Virginia Railway Express is postponing the next of its road closures to accommodate rail bridge work near Alexandria Union Station (110 Callahan Drive).

Construction on the two replacement rail bridge spans over King Street and Commonwealth Avenue has been rescheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, running through 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. King Street will be fully closed between Russell Road and Daingerfield Road during construction. Traffic will be detoured to Duke Street, and Commonwealth Avenue will remain open with a single travel lane with alternating traffic directed by flaggers. Sunset Drive will remain fully open.

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UPDATE: Woman killed in Old Town North was walking with active pedestrian signal

By James Cullum
Alexandria police cruiser (staff photo by James Jarvis)

The pedestrian killed in Old Town North last month was walking within a marked crosswalk with an active countdown on the pedestrian beacon signal, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.

The 62-year-old victim, identified by the Alexandria Police Department as Norma Floyd-Sayles, was struck by a Chevrolet Suburban and killed while crossing at the intersection of St. Asaph and Montgomery Streets around 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 20. The 46-year-old male driver stopped approximately 40 feet from where police found her body and called 911 to report the incident, according to the affidavit.

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Buyers, sellers active as Alexandria sees strong April home sales data

By Scott McCaffrey
Townhomes on the Potomac River in Alexandria (staff photo by James Cullum)

The Alexandria real estate market saw a strong start to spring, with April sales up 33% year over year.

A total of 217 properties went to closing during the month, according to data from MarketStats by ShowingTime.

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Sandy Marks sworn into Alexandria City Council, creating historic first-ever female majority

By James Cullum
Alexandria City Councilwoman Sandy Marks gets sworn in by Clerk of Court Greg Parks on May 12, 2026 (staff photo by James Cullum)

Sandy Marks, the former chair of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, was sworn in to City Council Tuesday night.

For the first time in the city’s history, Alexandria’s seven-member City Council now has a female majority, as Marks joins Mayor Alyia Gaskins, Vice Mayor Sarah Bagley and Councilwoman Jacinta Greene. Marks won her seat on council in the April 21 special election for the seat vacated by former Councilman R. Kirk McPike, who won his own special election to fill the vacant 5th District seat in the House of Delegates.

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Morning Notes for May 13, 2026

By ALXnow.com
The 2026 Del Ray House and Garden Tour on May 9, 2026 (via Olivia Gravatt)

On This Day in Alexandria History — “On May 13, 1904, in the center of the intersection of Prince and South Washington Streets, a decorative iron fence, cast iron urns and landscaping was installed around the statue Appomattox, the location where upwards of 800 Alexandria troops gathered in the early morning hours of May 24, 1861 as Union troops began their Civil War occupation of Alexandria. In May 1889, the statue sculpted by Caspar Buberl, based on a soldier in John Elder’s battlefield painting of the same name, was installed at the site.” [Historic Alexandria]

Del Ray House & Garden Tour Raises Over $27K for Local Causes — Hundreds attended the tour featuring a dozen homes in the Del Ray neighborhood on Saturday, May 9. Proceeds from the tour will go to the Little Red Caboose restoration between the Mount Vernon Rec Center, Mount Vernon Community School, and Duncan Library, as well as Mount Vernon Community School after-school tutoring, and the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria. [Del Ray Citizens Association news release]

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Alexandria City High School graduation next month to use AI name-reading for second year

By James Cullum
Proudly displaying a diploma at Alexandria City High School's graduation at George Mason University's EagleBank Arena, June 3, 2023 (staff photo by James Cullum)

Hundreds of Alexandria City High School seniors are set to graduate next month.

Graduation will be held the morning of Saturday, June 6, at George Mason University’s EagleBank Arena (4400 University Drive) in Fairfax. The processional begins at 8:45 a.m. and the ceremony lasts approximately two hours. This is the second consecutive year that Alexandria City Public Schools will use Tassel, an artificial intelligence company, to provide automated name-reading services.

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