Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria!
🌧️ Today’s weather: Increasing clouds, with a high near 63 degrees. West wind 5 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Tonight, we’ll see isolated showers before 11 p.m. It will be cloudy, then gradually become partly cloudy, with a low around 40 degrees. West wind is around 6 mph and becoming light and variable. The chance of precipitation is 20%.
What a week in Alexandria. If we were making hay instead of paragraphs, the barn would be full.
Alexandria is bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt says that the school system is “deeply concerned” and that the action raises questions about future federal support.
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, have sold their Del Ray home for $1,867,025, according to property records.
The property, located at 9 E Del Ray Avenue, was listed for $1,695,000 at the end of February and, after just a handful of days, was marked as “pending” on real estate websites.
Del Ray officially lost one of its most famous residents this week, as Vice President JD Vance moved from his Del Ray home to the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory. The move also means that Judy Lowe Neighborhood Park at 1 E. Del Ray, which is next to Vance’s former home has reopened to the public.
The reopening of the park was announced on the city website. Moving trucks were spotted by an ALXnow tipster on Saturday, Jan. 18 — two days before the inauguration.
With less than three weeks until election day on Nov. 5, more than 15,000 Alexandria residents have cast early and by-mail ballots, according to the city’s Office of Voter Registration and Elections.
On the ballot this year are nominees for president and vice president, U.S. Senate, Congress, Alexandria’s mayor, City Council and School Board.
“NOT GOING BACK” and “CHILDLESS CAT LADIES VOTE” are among a flurry of chalk messages adorning the concrete barriers at a closed-off Alexandria park near the home of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.
Pieces of chalk have been left near the Jersey barriers at Judy Lowe Park (7 E. Del Ray Avenue), which is near Vance’s home in Del Ray. The messages have been made recently, as the city announced late last month that the park would be closed when Vance returned home from the campaign.
