Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria!
🌤️ Today’s weather: Expect partly sunny skies and a high near 78, accompanied by a northwest wind at about 6 mph. As for tonight, mostly clear conditions prevail with a low around 60. The north wind at approximately 5 mph will become calm during the evening.
A proposal to add express lanes to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge is getting some pushback from the Coalition for Smarter Growth, which argued VDOT’s toll lane could take Metrorail’s right of way.
The Coalition says that, if enacted, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s 495 Southside Study will create traffic bottlenecks. They’re asking locals to voice their displeasure by emailing public officials, and say that the express lanes will not improve general traffic on the bridge and that more cars will avoid the bridge and spill onto local roadways.
Alexandria Police Department officers are being hailed as heroes after resuscitating a lifeless baby boy after its mother suddenly gave birth in Arlandria last month.
APD officers David Hiltz and Liam Reilly responded to a “frantic” 911 call in the 3800 block of Executive Avenue on Wednesday, May 29, to find that a woman “suddenly” gave birth and that the baby boy had no heartbeat, according to APD.
It’s been a busier month than usual for Smoking Kow BBQ.
After being listed as #79 in Yelp’s Top 100 barbecue joints in the country, the restaurant and its catering operation have seen a giant boost in sales, owner Diane Lee told ALXnow.
A park in the Braddock neighborhood is being dedicated today to late civic activist Judy Guse-Noritake, a longtime advocate for parks who died in 2022.
For years, Guse-Noritake was a regular presence at city commissions and public hearings to advocate for better park space and better amenities for mixed-income communities. She helped found the Braddock Metro Citizens’ Coalition and was a prominent voice in shaping Old Town North.
The City of Alexandria is gearing up for an overhaul to the storied Fort Ward Park.
Since early 2015, the City has been working on plans to revitalize Fort Ward and make the park more accessible. Planned changes include a new and more accessible playground, picnic shelters on a new pathway, and more memorialization/preservation of burial sites used by the Black community that settled at the fort after the Civil War.
Good Monday morning, Alexandria!
🌤️ Today’s weather: Expect mostly sunny conditions with a high close to 79 and a northwest wind at 7 to 10 mph. As evening approaches, the sky will become mostly cloudy, maintaining a low temperature around 59 and a north wind at approximately 7 mph.
Honestly: bit a of a slow week in Alexandria, not that we’re complaining, but there was still plenty of news around the city.
One of the most exciting ones is the arrival of a brand new country music festival to the city next week. Yeehaw!
A stalled development project in Old Town, called The Heritage, could be getting a boost from the city’s housing authority to get it over the finish line.
The City Council is docketed to consider a resolution “authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds by the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority (ARHA) for the Heritage at Old Town Redevelopment Project.”
A former Metro driver who used her mother’s Alexandria address to make dozens of fraudulent driver’s licenses, including for herself, pleaded guilty in federal court this week.
The 30-year-old D.C. woman admitted to falsifying documents to get her own Virginia commercial driver’s license, and to using her mom’s Alexandria address to create more than 67 fake licenses for other drivers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
A fundraiser has been launched to help an Alexandria Police Department officer and his family recover from a recent tragedy.
Officer Douglass Servern and his fiancée, Felicia, were expecting twins, but she was involved in a serious vehicle crash and both children were born prematurely and died shortly thereafter.
