ALIVE! gave out 30,716 pounds of food to more than 1,000 Alexandria households on Saturday, and now its shelves are nearly empty.
The 50-year-old nonprofit’s next distribution of food will not be until the end of May, although ALIVE! will continue providing food to local pantries between now and then, said Executive Director Jennifer Ayers.
The city is pleading for residents to minimize their trash after piles have steadily grown higher as people are staying at home during the pandemic.
Residential trash tonnage has increased by 40% over the last month, according to a press release.
A majority of Alexandria businesses are feeling the pain from COVID-19, but Del Ray’s butcher shop Let’s Meat on the Avenue is limiting the number of items customers can buy.
“It’s just a different animal now, because people are buying in mass quantities because they’re eating at home for their three meals a day,” shop owner Donna Welch told ALXnow. “Now customers can only get two dozen eggs at a time, you can only get two pounds of ground beef at a time, because people were coming in and buying 10 pounds of ground beef and dozens and dozens of eggs.”
While many teachers are grappling with reshaping their curriculums for the new digital era, some Alexandria teachers have been making the most of the new situation and pushing the schools to embrace new teaching methods.
Gabriel Elias, a history teacher at T.C. Williams High School, has made national headlines for his morning show broadcast to the T.C. community and was singled out for praise by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
After several years of stops and starts, the redevelopment of Landmark Mall is as uncertain as ever.
City Councilman Canek Aguirre informed the Cameron Station Civic Association on March 7, 2020, that Howard Hughes no longer has any interest in the redevelopment project at Landmark.
Here are a few things to pay attention to this week in Alexandria:
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city will receive the city manager’s new $743.5 million fiscal year 2021 budget request on Tuesday.
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Alexandria now has 104 cases of COVID-19, according to the health department.
The new figure is an addition of 11 cases since yesterday. There have been double digit increases of new cases every day in April, and so far there have been 60 cases throughout the month.
(Updated at 5:45 p.m.) — Alexandria Police have determined that the dead man found in the Potomac River on April 5 was a 51-year-old resident of Washington, D.C.
The body of an adult male, whose identity has not been released, was recovered from the Potomac River by the Alexandria Police and Fire Departments in the 300 block of North Union Street.
There are now 93 cases of COVID-19 in Alexandria, according to the health department.
The new figure is an increase of 16 cases since yesterday. The number of infected residents has jumped by double digits nearly every day since March 29. There have been 61 new cases since then.
Alexandria now has 77 cases of COVID-19, according to the health department.
There was a surge of 53 cases over the last week, and the new figure is an addition of 10 cases since yesterday. The department said in a release that it expects the number to increase.
