Alexandria resident and Cameron Station mother Katie Bilek has submitted the following Letter to the Editor regarding the Alexandria City School Board’s proposed redistricting plans.
Bilek argues that the plans unfairly target her neighborhood, Cameron Station, by arbitrarily dividing the planned community and redirecting half of its children from their walkable neighborhood school, Tucker Elementary, to Patrick Henry K-8.
Citing potential plans to move a small number of students from the newly rebuilt Douglas MacArthur Elementary – a school with projected capacity – into a school slated for swing space, a group of “Scroggins Triangle” parents contends in the following letter to the editor that minimizing student upheaval should be prioritized in the current ACPS redistricting process.
The letter is in response to our ongoing coverage of the ACPS redistricting efforts and process.
Rachael Von Elmendorf, co-owner of Misha’s Coffee and an Alexandria teacher, writes in strong opposition to the planned Waterfront Flood Mitigation Project in this submitted letter to the editor.
The letter is in response to an ALXnow story that was published on April 15 – Alexandria’s plan to fight flooding will close Waterfront Park and Point Lumley Park for at least two years.
Alexandria has a vibrant cycling community and offers residents a selection of bicycle shops with expert mechanics and places to shop.
Do you have a favorite bicycle shop you recommend to others? A shop that has knowledgeable sales personnel and/or dependable repair services? Here’s your chance to share your experience and recommendations via our Readers’ Choice Award for the best bicycle shop in Alexandria.
ALXnow has never done more local news reporting than we’re doing now.
In March, we published 220 stories (the most stories ever published in one month on the website) and reached 430,316 visitors (38% more traffic year over year). Just ten days into April, and we’re averaging nine new stories per day.
It’s only taken Virginia 400-plus years to get around to it, but a fairly routine political event last weekend made it nearly an absolute certainty that next January, the commonwealth will inaugurate its first woman governor.
The Republican Party of Virginia announced on Saturday that former state Sen. Amanda Chase, a right-wing lightning rod who described herself as “Trump in heels,” had failed to gather enough signatures on qualifying petitions by that day’s deadline to appear on the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot.
ALXnow is launching its new Readers’ Choice Awards this week. This new resource will allow our community to vote for their local favorites across a range of categories.
Starting today (April 7), ALXnow will release weekly polls asking readers to vote for their top picks in various areas, including the best pizza, coffee shops, nonprofits, and home service providers. The initiative will always feature carefully chosen nominees in each category, with a write-in option to ensure no hidden gems are missed.
Finding the right audience in a vibrant city like Alexandria is key to business growth, and ALXnow provides a direct connection to the heart of the community.
Since launching in 2019, ALXnow has become a trusted news source, rapidly growing to reach over 250,000 engaged monthly visitors (as of our 2024 data). This readership isn’t just passing through; they are the people who live, work, and invest in Alexandria and its surrounding areas, actively seeking local information – making ALXnow the premier digital platform to place your message for maximum local impact.
Think the decades-old food stamps program deserves to be in the callous, capricious cross hairs of Elon Musk, President Donald Trump and the latter’s spineless sycophants in Congress? Then you don’t know someone like Ndaneh Luseni.
The 34-year-old Alexandria woman, a single mother with three children, depends on the nourishment that food stamps provide. Luseni receives only $83 a month in benefits from what’s formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Yet, that money allows her to help make ends meet on a regular basis. SNAP pays for essentials like eggs, milk, bread and juice in her household.
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At a City Council meeting last week, City Council member Abdel Elnoubi and Vice Mayor Sarah Bagley introduced a proposal that could change the way Alexandria City High School students get to school.
Elnoubi and Bagley, with the unanimous backing of the City Council, asked staff to explore the utilization of the DASH bus network to transport for high school students, eliminating the need for school buses at the high school level.
