Good Thursday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Widespread haze. Widespread smoke, mainly before noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. North wind around 8 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. At night: Widespread haze. Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph.
🚨 You need to know
Alexandria’s Duke Street Transitway Advisory Group has filed its long-awaited recommendations for how to reconfigure transit along Duke Street, Alexandria Living Magazine reported.
The goal, the report said, would be a center-running bus lane throughout the corridor, but the report acknowledge this wasn’t feasible in the short term. As a result, some sections of the transitway will be mixed in with traffic and others will have center-running lanes.
The full breakdown of which sections will include center-running lanes is available at Alexandria Living Magazine, but the gist is that some of the central parts of the corridor will have buses in mixed traffic or with a single eastbound center-running bus lane, while either end of the corridor will have center-running lanes.
Those recommendations are headed to City Council on Tuesday, June 27.
📈 Wednesday’s most read
The following are the most-read ALXnow articles for Jun 7, 2023.
- Alexandria advises locals to ‘limit their time outside’ due to smoke (1063 views)
- Man shot in West End early Sunday morning (933 views)
- Popular Arlandria bar Hops N’ Shine faces scrutiny from Planning Commission (786 views)
- Pickett’s Change: New signs call for renaming of Confederate-honoring street | ALXnow (771 views)
🐦 Tweets of note
Today is a Code ORANGE Air Quality alert day for Northern Virginia. Please be careful and avoid strenuous outdoor activities. If you need to travel around Alexandria, consider hopping on your nearest DASH bus, which provides FREE and FREQUENT service all around town. #SpareTheAir pic.twitter.com/DzoFGweVJK
— DASH Bus (@DASHBus) June 7, 2023
📅 Upcoming events
Here is what’s going on today in Alexandria, from our event calendar.
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Monarch Montessori School is now enrolling infants, toddlers and three year-olds for its full-time Montessori program. We offer a seamless enrollment process which involves submitting an application for review, paying the enrollment fee and submitting the remaining enrollment materials before your proposed start date.
At Monarch Montessori School, we aim to provide an authentic Montessori learning experience. At our Alexandria location, we currently have 8 openings in our Primary classroom (ages 3-6), and 6 openings in our Toddler classroom. Additionally, there are 3 infant openings at this time.
Our first floor space is an open concept. Infants and toddlers share the same large classroom. Children ages 3-6 are in two classrooms on our second floor. Each classroom has one lead and assistant guide. We offer a year-round program, with intermittent breaks for Spring Break and Winter Break.
Scholarship Fund of Alexandria Annual Gala & Auction
Do good while having a good time at the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria’s 38th Annual Gala and Auction at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. The fun begins with a 2-hour open bar reception while mingling with 499 other Alexandrians who
