Meet Gunther, a 3-year-old tricolored dog up for adoption at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.
This beautiful boy is looking for a family to shower with love.
Plans submitted for the West End development replacing Landmark Mall include a potential ice rink, but reception to those plans seemed mixed.
The plans, submitted by Foulger-Pratty Development, indicate the seasonal rink could be located on a park in the middle of a mixed-use development adjacent to the planned Inova Hospital campus.
A grassroots social media page at Alexandria City High School, run by students and teachers, is looking for some funding to help make better content for the school.
Alexandria City High School teacher Gabriel Elias was the example in a Washington Post story and a White House briefing in 2020 of teachers adapting to virtual classrooms and connecting with students digitally. Since then, Elias has been working with a volunteer team of students and teachers to make a positive social media hub at the school. Now he’s looking for some help to take the project to the next level.
Good Thursday morning, Alexandria!
⛈️ Today’s weather: There’s a possibility of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm today, with the majority of the day being sunny and an expected high temperature near 89. Winds will be light and variable, becoming southward at around 6 mph in the afternoon. The chance of rain is 30%. For Thursday night, there could be showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, likely showers, and a possible thunderstorm between 8pm to 2am. After 2am, there might be more showers and thunderstorms. The night will be mostly cloudy, with a low temperature around 71, southeast winds at 3-7 mph and a higher rain chance at 70%. Rainfall may amount to between a quarter and a half-inch.
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Saturday, June 13
A new program is helping Alexandria Redevelopment & Housing Authority (ARHA) residents get access to college classes.
ARHA has a new partnership with the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and the Social Responsibility Group (SRG) that’s allowed a group of 15 ARHA residents to enroll in classes and start getting credits for an associate degree.
The overhaul of a busy intersection on King Street near the George Washington Masonic Memorial is scheduled to kick off next month.
The project will mean periodic lane closures at the King/Callahan/Russel intersection over the next few months, but when it’s over, there should be improvements to the roadway — particularly for pedestrians and cyclists.
A 28-year old Alexandria man suffered non-life threatening injuries after a robbery at a high rise apartment building in the West End early Monday night.
The incident occurred at around 6:30 p.m. in the 6000 block of Edsall Road. One suspect is in custody and the other remains at large. The suspect in custody lives in the apartment building and was positively identified by the victim, according to dispatch reports.
As developer Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) heads into the ambitious redevelopment of the GenOn Power Plant, the developer laid out some of their plans for the complex process of breaking the site apart.
Representatives of the developer spoke last week to the Alexandria Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) — full disclosure, this reporter is on the LEPC — about how the developers plans for abatement, remediation and deconstruction. The discussion was a follow-up to a previous LEPC meeting with Deputy Director for Infrastructure and Environmental Quality Bill Skrabak.
A 37-year-old Maryland man suspected in a domestic assault was arrested Saturday night after being bitten by an Alexandria Police Department K-9 officer in Old Town.
The incident occurred at around 9 p.m. in the 300 block of N. West Street. The suspect allegedly brandished a weapon and pointed it at an unknown age female and male, threw the woman to the ground and punched the male in the face before driving off in a black SUV.