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ALXnow’s top stories this week in Alexandria

Hypergoat Coffee Roasters owners Rodrigo Ramos and Deborah Joos Tafner de Moraes (staff photo by James Cullum)

This week saw multiple days of wall-to-wall election coverage, but none of them took the top spot.

That honor went to Hypergoat Coffee Roasters, a new coffee spot that opened in August at 215 N. Payne Street.

The new business is the culmination of a decade-long hobby for married owners Rodrigo Ramos and Deborah Joos Tafner de Moraes who roast the coffee in their back yard in Alexandria.

Hypergoat Coffee Roasters is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The shop is closed Sunday.

The most-read stories this week were:

  1. There’s a new specialty coffee roaster in Old Town (6609 views)
  2. NEW: Fake Democratic sample ballots distributed at Alexandria polling location (6293 views)
  3. Proposed Seminary Road townhomes draw ire of nearby neighbors (6147 views)
  4. Victim identified after Tuesday’s fatal 5-vehicle crash on I-495 in Alexandria (5895 views)
  5. GMU Professor spells out Trump presidency’s possible impact on Alexandria (3616 views)
  6. New plans show long vacant Victory Center office building could be converted to housing (2841 views)

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