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City Manager Jim Parajon is expected to deliver an update about snow response efforts in the City of Alexandria this evening (Tuesday).

Parajon is scheduled to provide the update during City Council’s legislative meeting, which will take place virtually at 7 p.m. The update will detail how the city prepared for snow, “what we have seen, where we need to amp up the response, and what you can expect over the next few days,” Mayor Alyia Gaskins said today on social media.


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Tomorrow (Wednesday) will be a virtual workday for students and teachers at Alexandria City Public Schools.

ACPS facilities will remain closed for all activities for a third consecutive day due to inclement weather, Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt announced this afternoon. Students, teachers and staff will instead move to synchronous virtual learning plans.


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Girl Scout cookie season is back, and it’s coming soon to Alexandria.

In-person cookie booth sales with Girl Scouts of Nation’s Capital return next week on Friday, Feb. 6. Shoppers will be able to snag the classics like Thin Mints and Trefoils, as well as a new rocky road ice cream-flavored cookie, Exploremores.


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A team of volunteers in Alexandria have bundled up to shovel and treat their neighbors’ walkways after this weekend’s winter storm.

For two decades, Volunteer Alexandria’s Snow Buddy Program has provided snow removal assistance to people with disabilities, homebound residents and seniors who meet income eligibility requirements. The program, which typically serves 30 to 40 residents, is meeting increased needs in the city, with 65 service requests from Alexandria residents so far this winter.


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Rosie Allen-Herring has been tapped as interim president and CEO of Alexandria-based United Way Worldwide, after several years leading the nonprofit’s National Capital Area branch.

Allen-Herring, who has directed United Way NCA since 2013, will succeed former UWW President and CEO Angela Williams next Monday, Feb. 2. Williams announced her retirement in December after four years leading the nonprofit, which is headquartered in Old Town at 701 N. Fairfax Street.


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One westbound lane has reopened near 5005 Duke Street after Alexandria staff and police responded overnight to a water main break in the area.

Virginia American Water is currently responding to the main break, which the Alexandria Police Department reported on Facebook shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday (Monday). The break prompted APD to close westbound lanes at the scene, and as of 12:45 a.m. today (Tuesday), one lane had been reopened.


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Waste will not be collected in Alexandria tomorrow (Tuesday) as city offices, courts, facilities, libraries and public schools plan to remain closed another day due to icy, inclement weather.

Trash, recycling and yard waste collection will “slide” by two days as crews continue to remove ice and snow, the City of Alexandria announced shortly after 7 p.m.


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Traffic is backed up on westbound Interstate 495 near Eisenhower Avenue as authorities respond to the scene of a tractor-trailer crash near the Alexandria-Fairfax County border.

The crash occurred when the driver of a tractor-trailer in the right lane “lost control, jack-knifed, and struck an SUV” on westbound I-495 around 4:08 p.m., according to Virginia State Police.


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Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be another snow day for Alexandria City Public Schools students, ACPS announced this afternoon.

All schools and offices will close “due to below freezing temperatures this evening and road conditions across the region,” Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt wrote in an announcement. This also means all activities on school grounds are canceled.


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DASH and DOT Paratransit have canceled all services for tomorrow (Monday), according to announcements from both systems this evening.

DASH’s service cancellation is the system’s first in years, it said, and comes as Alexandria’s public schools, libraries, government offices, facilities and trash collection have announced Monday closures and cancellations.


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The City of Alexandria will not collect trash, recycling or yard waste tomorrow (Monday), according to an announcement this afternoon as sleet continues to fall.

Instead, waste collection will “slide” one day as the city’s crews continue to remove snow and ice. The city has released the following collection schedule for the week ahead.


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