Students at Alexandria City High School (ACHS) will be taught remotely today (Thursday) and Friday after a series of fights yesterday at the King Street campus.
Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt shared a letter with school families expressing disappointment with the rash of violence at the school. While Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) has shared few details about what occurred, ACHS students reported that a staff member was hit during one of the fights.
A 27-year-old Alexandria man is out on bond after being arrested for the attempted aggravated sexual battery of an incapacitated woman during a Thanksgiving party.
The party was held on Thanksgiving (Nov. 28) in an apartment in the 5600 block of Derby Court.
Alexandria City High School has been placed on ‘hold status’ until dismissal today “due to a number of altercations in the school building,” Principal Alexander Duncan said in a message to parents.
According to Duncan, the hold status means there is limited movement inside classrooms and hallways and after school activities — except for a concert at 7:30 p.m. this evening — are cancelled.
Just as the Delian League brought together an alliance of Greek city-states, The Big Greek Cafe is uniting SouvlakiBar locations around the region under a new banner.
Patch reported that SouvlakiBar, which has a location at 2732 Richmond Highway in the Potomac Yard neighborhood, will be transitioning to The Big Greek Cafe, a Maryland-based local chain with nine locations
With pocketbooks lighter from the holidays, it’s a good thing that Alexandria Restaurant Week is around the corner.
Nearly 100 restaurants are participating from Jan. 31 to Feb. 9, by offering multi-course dinner menus for $30-to-$50 per person in neighborhoods across the city.
Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria!
🌧️ Today’s weather: Expect showers mainly after 2pm, with patchy fog developing after 4pm and a high near 53. Calm winds will shift to southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. There’s an 80% chance of precipitation, with new amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch. Wednesday night, showers continue mainly before 1am, with patchy fog clearing by 10pm and a low around 38. Southwest winds, 7 to 15 mph, will shift northwest after midnight, gusting up to 20 mph. A 90% chance of precipitation brings additional amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch.
Alexandria restaurants Virginia’s Darling and Mae’s Market and Cafe Alexandria will be closing over the next month.
Owner Nicole Jones, who also owned Stomping Ground in Del Ray, said on Facebook that the businesses were unable to reach a favorable lease agreement with their landlord.
A nonprofit serving Arlandria’s Latino community is trying to raise some big bucks before the end of the year.
After a disappointing Spring2ACTion fundraiser earlier this year, Casa Chirilagua is trying to raise $120,000 to fund their programming to serve 400+ people, and also keep the lights on. The deadline for giving is Dec. 31.
A 110-unit condominium building was approved in Alexandria’s Carlyle neighborhood by City Council on Saturday.
City Council unanimously approved Paradigm Development Company’s plan to build the 13-story, 159-foot-tall building on a 22,000-square-foot vacant parcel of land next door to its 26-story, 420-unit apartment building Meridian 2250 at Eisenhower Station.
After 15 years of teaching English at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), First Lady Jill Biden announced her retirement from her teaching post.
Jill Biden announced on Monday that she’d finished her final class at the Alexandria school the week before, NBC reported. Jill Biden started teaching at NOVA in 2009 after her husband Joe Biden became vice president. Jill Biden started teaching English in 1976.
Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria!
🌤️ Today’s weather: Fog will dissipate by 8am, making way for mostly cloudy skies that will gradually clear, leading to a sunny day with a high temperature near 62°F. Southwest winds of 6-8 mph will shift to the northwest later in the day. For Tuesday night, expect partly cloudy conditions and a low temperature of around 37°F, accompanied by light winds.
