Good morning, Alexandria! Today is Saturday, July 5, the 186th day of 2025. There are 179 days left in the year.
🌦️ Today’s weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77 degrees. Light and variable wind becoming south 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Partly cloudy tonight, with a low of around 66 degrees. Southwest wind around 10 mph.
Governor Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday (July 3) a new round of administration and board appointments that includes four Alexandria residents, continuing a recent trend of Northern Virginia appointments to state positions.
The latest Alexandria appointments include Douglas W. Domenech to the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Dr. Edwin J. Feulner to the Board of Visitors of Mount Vernon, S. Lawrence Kocot to the Board of Pharmacy, and W. Patrick Wilson to the Alexandria Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission.
Good Friday morning, Alexandria! Today is Friday, July 4, the 185th day of 2025. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day.
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins sharply criticized the Trump administration’s decision to slash $186 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next decade, calling the cuts to food benefits for working families, seniors and children “not just bad policy” but “cruel.”
The cuts are part of President Donald Trump’s tax legislation that passed Congress by razor-thin margins—51-50 in the Senate with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote, and 218-214 in the House.
City Council has released more than $120,000 in reserve funding to the Alexandria Health Department.
On Tuesday (July 1), Council approved the one-time funding to support the city’s Healthy Homes Action Plan, immigrant and refugee resource programs, and expansion of the ALX Breathes program. AHD lost the funds, which were from a federal COVID-19 grant earlier this year.
Get ready for some road repaving in Alexandria this month.
Three Alexandria roadways will be repaved from July 7 to 18, according to the city. The street repaving will affect Trinity Drive (from Fort Williams Parkway to Yale Drive), Canterbury Lane (from Trinity Drive to End) and Mill Road (from Mandeville Road to Eisenhower Avenue).
The City of Alexandria is seeking input from residents and visitors on a pilot program that has temporarily transformed the 200 block of King Street into a pedestrian-only zone, as officials prepare to decide whether to make the change permanent.
The second phase of the pilot program, which began on March 14 and runs through September 30, 2025, has converted the 200 block of King Street, between Lee Street and Fairfax Street, into a car-free zone. The city is now collecting public feedback through an online form, with responses due by July 17.
The Alexandria City Council, this week, approved the three-year extension of an expired plan to build hundreds of residential units in Alexandria’s Landmark area.
The three-year development special use permit for the 8-acre Landmark Overlook project expired in February. Council initially approved the plan in 2022 by West End Development Associates to build 450 residential units in seven townhomes and two multifamily apartment buildings on the eight-acre site at 5901, 5951, and 5999 Stevenson Avenue and 2 South Whiting Street.
The City of Alexandria announced Thursday the appointment of Dr. Wendy Ginsberg as its new Legislative Director, bringing nearly two decades of federal government experience to a demanding role that will require her to shuttle between Alexandria, Richmond, and Washington to advocate for the city’s interests.
Ginsberg, a long-time Alexandria resident, most recently served as Director of Congressional Affairs at the National Archives and Records Administration. Her extensive Capitol Hill background includes leadership roles as Director of Subcommittees for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and Staff Director for the late Representative Gerald E. Connolly.
Disturbing allegations of child abuse have been leveled against a daycare in Old Town by the Virginia Department of Social Services.
Over seven months (October 2024 to May 2025), a now-fired employee at Two Birds Daycare (1737 King Street) was observed allegedly physically striking and roughly handling children, yanking children’s hair, putting them in a dark closet as punishment, making demeaning comments about their clothes, and slapping kids who had toilet accidents, according to a May 21 DSS inspection of the facility.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials have agreed not to fully enforce a 2020 law banning conversion therapy for minors as part of an agreement with a faith-based conservative group that sued over the law, authorities said earlier this week.
The Virginia Department of Health Professions, represented by the state’s office of the attorney general, entered into a consent decree with the Founding Freedoms Law Center last month, saying officials will not discipline counselors who engage in talk conversion therapy.
