The Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities seeks volunteers to participate in a tree conservation activity at Ben Brenman Park, 4800 Brenman Park Dr. on Saturday, September 11 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The volunteer activity will be held rain or shine. Due to recent beaver activity in the park, Parks Operations staff [...]
The National Weather Service has just issued a Coastal Flood Advisory for the City of Alexandria. As Hurricane Earl moves north along the eastern seaboard, some increase in water levels is expected through Thursday night across the tidal Potomac and Maryland Chesapeake Bay. At this point, water levels are expected to range from 1′ to [...]
The City of Alexandria has started producing a bi-weekly video highlighting upcoming events, activities, and news in the City of Alexandria, Virginia. In this episode: Storm Recovery, Restaurant Week, King St Paving, Mini Pools, Payment Locations, Recreation Registration Site, and Earl Lloyd Book Signing. You can subscribe to the City of Alexandria’s YouTube channel at [...]
The City of Alexandria experienced the loss of hundreds of trees and extensive damage throughout the City as a result of winter snow and summer thunderstorms in 2010. Residents, who want to help replenish the City’s tree canopy, should consider the following opportunities: Make a donation to the Living Landscape Fund of Alexandria The Living [...]
While doing my usual research for this blog, I stumbled across an extremely good opinion piece in the Alexandria Times from February 26, 2009. It talks about the brand new Charles Houston Rec Center. It questions the validity of a project that originally cost $4.2 million and somehow was allowed to balloon to $15.2 million. [...]
Councilman Rob Krupicka has created an online survey to get feedback from the citizens of Alexandria on the City’s proposed FY 2010 budget. It takes just a few minutes to complete, so please take a moment to fill it out and let him know your own priorities regarding the upcoming budget.
His annual speech was given this year at the brand spanking new Charles Houston Recreation Center located at 901 Wythe Street over in the Parker Grey neighborhood of Alexandria. His speech last year drew much criticism for spending $24,000 on an accompanying video. The Mayor discusses Alexandria’s accomplishments and future challenges. The 2009 State of [...]
Starting March 2, you may want to avoid the Washington Street corridor between 7:00 AM and 3:30 PM. The City of Alexandria’s Department of Transportation & Environmental Services, Maintenance Division will begin the process of reconstructing and paving North and South Washington Street. This reconstruction process will be a two phase project as follows: Phase [...]
Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th District) is scheduled to be at City hall tonight for the Council work session to discuss the City of Alexandria’s earmarks (oops…federal assistance) requested for the upcoming year.
If you want to see what types of bloated spending your Government looks at to provide earmarks for, Congressman Moran is scheduled at the session around 8:00pm. Some of the items to be considered are…
Here they come again. The Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group must really love Old Town. A brand-spanking new $50 million property — which we reported on earlier — Kimpton’s third boutique hotel to land here — opens Feb. 12 on the 1600 block of King Street just outside our Carlyle neighborhood. The other two properties [...]
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Tuesday, Sep 7
Partly Cloudy
Currently: 74˚F
Feels Like: 74˚ F
Hi: 92˚, Lo: 71˚
Tonight: 71˚
Sunset: 7:29 PM
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Wednesday, Sep 8
Hi: 91˚, Lo: 65˚
Thursday, Sep 9
Hi: 80˚, Lo: 62˚
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