Busy week in Alexandria. The city’s budget process is moving forward, with a maximum tax rate set last week, and details emerging like how the budget will handle the long-awaited body camera program for the Alexandria Police Department. There was also some fun local oddities, like plans to re-sink a couple of the historic ships.
Police also made a pair of relatively high profile arrests: like a man arrested for a shooting in February and another arrested in Texas after allegedly striking Alexandria police officers with his car in an escape attempt last December.
As a side note, yours truly is leaving for a week in Puerto Rico, so James Cullum and new-ish LNN editorial team leader Brandi Bottalico will have the run of the place in the meantime.
Top stories
- Alexandria man arrested after woman shot in face in Landmark area
- Interstates backed up near Alexandria due to trucker convoy
- JUST IN: Call Your Mother Deli pulls out of Old Town
- Superintendent advises Alexandria School Board to not talk to the media
- School Board meeting gets heated over formation of school law enforcement advisory group
- Adoption fees have been covered for Oshkosh, says Animal Welfare League of Alexandria
- Numerous charges after Alexandria man backs car into police cruiser in Old Town
- JUST IN: ACHS lockdown lifted after police investigate nearby car crash
- Plans unveiled for parking lot redevelopment in the heart of Old Town
- Larry and Christine Ponzi opening third St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub in May
