Just a week after another bridge opening, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge will be opening again tonight (Tuesday).
The bridge is scheduled to open around 10 p.m. Once open, the bridge should be open for around 20 minutes.
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City Council will consider a lease agreement tonight to move a portion of the Department of Transportation and Environmental Services to a 5,600-square-foot office space at AlexRenew Headquarters.
The city’s wastewater authority at 1800 Limerick Street finished construction of its headquarters in 2016, and was designed for expansion on the fifth floor.
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Alexandria is experiencing a shortage of mental health staff, and City Manager Jim Parajon is asking City Council for $900,000 to solve the problem.
Tonight Council will consider releasing the funds from contingent reserves to pay for strategies to hire and retain the city’s mental health staff.
Alexandria City Manager Jim Parajon is recommending that City Council not sell a tiny parcel of land at 2 King Street on the Alexandria waterfront.
Last year, the city issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the 1,825-square-foot property between Waterfront Park and The Strand Street. The city received two responses from the RFP, and since then Parajon’s office and the city’s Real Estate Committee came to the conclusion that it should cancel solicitation of the project until the waterfront mitigation project is completed.
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Saturday, June 13
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.
It’s been a hot few days in Alexandria, and it doesn’t seem to be cooling down soon.
This weekend, the Portside Festival was canceled due to the extreme heat. The region hit 100 degree temperatures over the weekend.
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.