The City of Alexandria is hosting an open house tonight for a long-awaited trail repair project.
A double whammy of historic floods in 2018 and 2019 wreaked havoc on the Holmes Run Trail — a beautiful forested trail running through woods and along the Holmes Run stream through the heart of Alexandria.
The Alexandria Economic Development Partnership (AEDP) just debuted a new rewards program that encourages shoppers to buy at Alexandria brick-and-mortar restaurants and shops.
The new program, called ALX Open Rewards, is a downloadable app that lets customers get $5 rewards for every $100 they spend at local restaurants and businesses. The app is sponsored by AEDP and hosted on the Bludot Open Rewards app, downloadable on the Apple App Store or on Google Play.
Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Expect a sunny day with temperatures reaching up to 93°F, accompanied by a light and variable wind that will shift to a southwest direction at 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. As for Tuesday night, partly cloudy skies are predicted, with the temperature dropping to around 75°F and a consistent south wind blowing at approximately 9 mph.
Noah Lyles is heading to Paris. After winning his final 100 meters at the Olympic trials on Saturday with a time of 9.83 seconds, the Alexandria native and world champion sprinter is heading to his second consecutive Olympic games.
Lyles ran a personal best in the race.
Alexandria likely won’t hit the 100 degree high of this past weekend, but the National Weather Service said locals should still expect high temperatures over the next few days.
The forecast today (Monday) puts the high at 89 degrees, but tomorrow (Tuesday) that’s forecast to go up to 92 degrees on Tuesday.
The final touches are being made on the future Amazon Fresh at 3801 Richmond Highway in Potomac Yard.
New hires at the store in the Potomac Yard Shopping center are being directed with signs on the front door, and a large sign on the building exterior reads, “Delicious groceries coming soon.”
Good Monday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Expect sunny skies and a high around 87 degrees accompanied by a northwest wind at 14 mph and gusts reaching 24 mph. Monday night will be mostly clear with a low of about 68 degrees and a northwest wind ranging from 7 to 11 mph.
Incumbents John Chapman, Sarah Bagley, Kirk McPike and Canek Aguirre kept their nominations and were joined by School Board members Abdel Elnoubi and Jacinta Greene.
The Democrat winners will face Republican Celianna Gunderson and Independent candidates Mason Butler and Roy Byrd.
Alexandria sprinter Kai Cole won’t be running in the U.S. Olympic trials this weekend, even though he’s fast enough.
In a message posted on social media Thursday, Cole said that his qualifying time of 10.05 seconds in the 100 meter dash at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s outdoor track and field championships last month was rejected by USA Track & Field.
Alexandria’s Traffic and Parking Board will consider converting the two-way access road next to the Bradlee Shopping Center on upper King Street to a one-way roadway and adding bike lanes.
City staff has outlined three alternatives for the access road between S. Taylor Street and Menokin Drive. The effort began last fall with city staff looking at ways to improve mobility and safety, as well as reduce standing water with stormwater treatment improvements.
A new GoFundMe is hoping to help keep the band playing on at Del Ray School of Music as owner Steve Attix battles cancer.
The GoFundMe, launched by his wife Mary Ellen Attix, aims to keep the school going as Steve goes through chemotherapy to battle T3 muscle-invasive bladder cancer. After chemotherapy, Steve will need surgery to remove his bladder, and Mary said the treatment will be difficult.
