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Alexandria Letter: Wishing New Board Success

Letter to the Editor

Congratulations to the returning and newly elected members of the Alexandria City Public School Board. Winning a local election takes a lot of time, effort, and money — yours as well as your supporters’ — and marshalling all those resources towards positive effect is hard work.

Alexandria Letter: Schools Face Growth Crisis

Letter to the Editor

I feel compelled to write to you to correct your headline "Minnie Howard Miniaturized Improvement Budget" in the Dec. 23 addition. This led your readers to believe the School Board cut the Minnie Howard project. This is not the case.

Alexandria Letter: Support Police in Budget

Letter to the Editor

Several Alexandria crime reports for essentially the entire month of December show that besides one recorded homicide, we had 105 assaults, 9 robberies, and 115 thefts/break-ins (includes 17 car thefts) during that very short time span.

Alexandria Letter: New Trail Needs Repair

Letter to the Editor

The new trail at Four Mile Run Park looks to be a nice addition for birders, fishermen, and a new hangout area for loiterers and their trash.

Alexandria Letter: TC Stadium Project Overdue

Letter to the Editor

This year T.C. Williams High School is celebrating its 50 year anniversary. In 1969, I was a member of the freshman football team at T.C. Williams. Our school colors were Red and Gold then, but we were still the original Titans. My parents would come and sit in the same bleachers that are on our field today. The tops may have gone through replacements, but the existing structure has never been upgraded or reconfigured.

Alexandria Letter: Improve Ethics Rules

Letter to the Editor

The Virginia state ethics requirements are extremely lax, almost non-existent in fact.

Alexandria Letter: In Praise of Sunlight

Letter to the Editor

Mayor Silberberg’s proposal to improve the way Alexandria addresses city government ethics has merit.

Alexandria Letter: Racism–The 8th Deadly Sin

Letter to the Editor

At one time or another, we all have come across references to the 7 deadly sins. Doing some research revealed they were referenced back to the 4th century.

Alexandria Remembers ‘Shadow’ Sebele

EHS plans memorial for standout player, coach.

Soccer fans on two continents are mourning the loss of Abel “Shadow” Sebele, a 2009 graduate of Episcopal High School who was killed Jan. 7 when he was struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in San Diego.

Alexandria Sportsman’s Club to Host Nats’ Scialabba

Director of Player Development to preview upcoming season.

Mark Scialabba, director of Player Development for Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals, will be the featured speaker at the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club meeting Jan. 19 at the Old Dominion Boat Club.

Alexandria: Arch Campbell Delights Crowd at Beth El Synagogue

Speck’s finance lecture includes movie reviewer’s retrospective.

David Speck, managing director of Speck-Caudron Investment Group, can’t predict exactly what the stock market will do and Arch Campbell can’t predict which movie will win next year’s Oscar. However, as experts in their fields — finance and movie reviews, respectively, they can speak with confidence and authority about their subjects.

Alexandria Commentary: A Fan for Life

Column–Rebuilding Together Alexandria

Robert Morrison’s been waiting and hoping. It’s been a long time since he’s seen his beloved Redskins perform so well. Sadly, the playoff loss ended their season, but then he’s used to the team’s ups and downs. When he first moved into his Alexandria home with his wife, it was an up year, as the Redskins went to the Super Bowl led by Quarterback Bill Kilmer and Coach George Allen.

Alexandria Commentary: Participate in MLK Community Summit 2016

The Annual MLK Community Summit is an opportunity for people of Alexandria and surrounding communities to come together to honor the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by performing community service projects.