Just a few days after an alert for the Taylor Run area, the Alexandria Health Department has issued a second rabies alert: this time for the Dora Kelley Nature Park vicinity.
The alert comes after a raccoon came into contact with a dog on Oct. 27 on the Dora Kelley Nature Park trail, four miles from Taylor Run. The raccoon tested positive for rabies.
The Patrick Henry and Jefferson-Houston school communities largely want their schools to remain as-is, but Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) said analysis showed they might need to convert to an elementary and middle school to help with division-wide capacity problems.
Currently, Patrick Henry and Jefferson-Houston are Pre-K through 8th-grade schools, but ACPS is considering converting one or both schools into elementary schools (Pre-K through 5th grade) or middle schools (6th through 8th grade).
Any adult Alexandrians missing that high of browsing the Scholastic book fair at schools can get a hit of it at the Old Town Book Fair next week.
The Old Town Book Fair: Adult Edition is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 9, at Morrison House (116 S. Alfred Street) from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
The Supreme Court has just allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations, granting an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
The Supreme Court granted the appeal after a federal judge in Alexandria found the state had illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations.
Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Expect sunny skies and a high of about 79, accompanied by a southwest wind blowing between 5 and 8 mph. On Wednesday night, the sky will be partly cloudy with a low temperature near 61, while the southwest wind remains at approximately 7 mph.
A woman was uninjured in an attempted abduction Tuesday evening, and the Alexandria Police Department is asking the public for help.
The victim told police that she was able to break away after a man allegedly grabbed her, put his hand over her mouth and nose, and tried to pull her into the Holmes Run Trail at Tarleton Park, according to APD dispatches.
The City of Alexandria is considering a new ordinance that will prohibit (item 7) any new retail selling tobacco products within 1,00 feet of a child day center, public, private or parochial school.
The ban includes stores selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products or hemp products. The ban will only affect new businesses: those in operation before July 1 are grandfathered in.
Alexandria’s been seeking public feedback on proposed short-term rental regulations and has started to make changes to the proposed regulation based on feedback.
Namely, city staff said in a presentation that the proposed requirement that an operator/local agent live within 15 miles of the city has been removed.
After nearly three years of construction, Inova Health Center — Oakville will be unveiled in a ribbon cutting on Thursday (Oct. 31).
The $300 million Oakville Triangle project at the corner of Swann Avenue and Richmond Highway includes more than 1 million square feet of residential space dedicated to apartments and townhomes, the new 93,000-square-foot health center (400 Fannon Street) with a comprehensive emergency room and 55,000 square feet of retail.
Medics were called to Alexandria City High School this morning after a fight left a student with an injured jaw.
According to the scanner, a 15-year-old was injured in an assault. A School Resource Officer called it in and told medics the student was suffering from jaw pain.
Update 10/30: Oct. 25 was a teacher work day, the students in the photo above were not in school.
Every day, countless Alexandria City High School students walk between campuses across one of the busiest intersections in the city, and city leaders said Alexandria’s been very lucky no one has been hurt yet.
