Alexandria Letter: Solve Tour Bus Issue
Letter to the Editor
Isn’t it about time that our great city solve its current tour bus crisis by banning tour buses on our old and narrow streets in the Old and Historic District?
Alexandria Letter: Time for Hard Choices
Letter to the Editor
What will it take to get Council to understand — and act — on the fact that their cycle of spending more money than we have — to pay for discretionary services we cannot afford — and then raising taxes — is killing our city?
Alexandria Letter: Importance of Neighborhoods
Letter to the Editor
At present Alexandria is going through a process to develop a set of “Strategic Plan Goals” for 2016-2022.
Alexandria Letter: Planting Trees Too Closely?
Letter to the Editor
There has been much new construction around the city in the past few years.
Alexandria Letter: Evaluate Each Felon
Letter to the Editor
I am disappointed in the Alexandria Gazette Packet’s editorial stance [“Voting for Former Felons and Others,” July 21], joining our current governor’s campaign to restore voting rights to 206,000 convicted felons.
Alexandria Letter: Attend Irish Festival
Letter to the Editor
The Ballyshaners are thrilled to be hosting the Irish Festival on Saturday, Aug. 13 at Waterfront Park.
Alexandria Letter: Another Hotel?
Letter to the Editor
A proposed 6- or 7- story 124-room hotel Plan 1 has been submitted to Planning and Zoning on June of this year by developers to be built at 1617 and 1711 King Street in the Upper King street area, a few blocks from the King Street Metro station.
Alexandria Letter: Support Local Police
Letter to the Editor
Recently an Alexandria Police Department (APD) officer was denied service at a local restaurant in Alexandria solely because she was in uniform and the restaurant’s chef took umbrage with that fact and refused to cook her order.
Alexandria Letter: Council Needs Discipline
Letter to the Editor
Each time I pick up the newspaper I become more depressed. This city is poorly managed. Council is hugely committed to the affordable housing cause.
Alexandria Letter: Abuse of Power
Letter to the Editor
I commend the Alexandria Gazette Packet for drawing so cogent a nexus between tax and rent increases, complete with charts which scare off many a local weekly.
Alexandria Poetry Conversations: ‘The Peace of Wild Things’
Hello Alexandria! I am thrilled to have been appointed as the Poet Laureate of Alexandria.
Chantilly: SSTs End Season as Division Co-Champions
As the sun radiated down with intense heat in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 23, and while many were determined to find a cool place to hibernate, the SST swimmers of Sully Station took to the pool and performed like champions.
Chantilly: ‘A Great Addition to Our Community’
New townhouse development is coming to Chantilly.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors put out the welcome mat last week for a rezoning that’ll bring two dozen new townhouses to Chantilly. The community will be at Elmwood and Vernon streets and will be called Rockland Village Green.
Centreville: Infusion of Cash for I-66/Route 28 Improvements
Agency allocates $300 million for I-66/Route 28.
Good news for drivers who take the I-66/Route 28 exits and entrances in Centreville — and in this area, that’s pretty much everyone. A fix for the congestion, especially during rush hours, just took a giant step toward becoming a reality.
Reston: Meet Joanna and Janelle
Twin sisters, Joanna and Janelle Grove, of Reston, share enormous passion: baking bread.
Watching these two running their stand at a recent farmers’ market was a bit like seeing double. Well, the Reston-based Grove twins, Joanna and Janelle, are identical twins, after all, and deciding which is which is a bit challenging.
Herndon Leo Club Installs New Officers
The Herndon Leo Club installed its new officers at the club picnic held at Lake Fairfax on Saturday, July 9.
Herndon: Ride4SPIRIT is Coming to Frying Pan Park
The Ride4SPIRIT event is a presentation and fundraiser that honors the accomplishments of therapeutic riding and learning programs with horses in the community.
Reston Column: Clinging to the Past
Commentary
At the same time that the Nation is moving forward with a major political party nominating a woman as candidate for the presidency of the United States, Virginia institutions are clinging to past traditions that should have been abandoned decades ago.
Reston: Helping with Compassion
TJ student attends Congress of Future Medical Leaders.
Rising junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Kamron Soldozy, represented Northern Virginia at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders, a gathering of the nation’s brightest high school students interested in medicine, from June 25-27.
Reston: Breuer-Designed 'Architectural Gem' Not Saved
Testimonials before Board of Supervisors didn’t matter; saving the American Press Institute designed by Marcel Breuer was not part of its purview.
Restonians left the county’s Board of Supervisors meeting July 26, 2016 incredulous.