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Wine Festival, Tour Planned at Mount Vernon
Wine Festival, Tour Planned at Mount Vernon
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School Notes
School Notes
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Follow the Bouncing Ball
Learning science at Rabbi Weinberg Primary School.
Follow the Bouncing Ball
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Clubs & Organizations
Clubs & Organizations
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Citizens Take Back Streets
Neighborhoods gather together for National Night Out Celebrations.
Citizens Take Back Streets
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Farm Tour Celebrates Agriculture
Farm Tour Celebrates Agriculture
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Free EKGs in Lopynski’s Honor
On April 26, 2009, Ryan Lopynski was a freshman at Virginia Tech who’d come home to Clifton’s Hampton Chase community to visit his family and seek a summer job. But he collapsed at home and suffered a fatal heart attack.
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Capitals Alumni Bondra, Burton Host Hockey School
Washington Capitals alumni Peter Bondra and Nelson Burton and mascot Slapshot visited Alexandria Country Day School in Alexandria on Wednesday, Nov. 7, for the fifth Capitals Hockey School assembly of the 2012-13 school year.
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Former NBA Player To Visit Fourth School
Former NBA player and current ESPN college basketball analyst Adrian Branch will lead two weeks of basketball camps at the Fourth Presbyterian School’s 2012 Fourth Summer Programs.
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Bittersweet Wins Eighth Annual Great Rum Punch Challenge
Bittersweet was the big winner with its “Pomander Punch” on March 24 at the Eighth Annual Great Rum Punch Challenge at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, beating out runner-up Gadsby’s Tavern Restaurant, the defending champ Dogfish Head, and worthy competitors Bacardi, FireFlies, and RedRocks. This is the third win for Bittersweet, which took top honors in 2007 and 2009.
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Arlington: Marymount Students Blessed by Pope Francis
Seeing Pope Francis for 10 seconds outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was worth the commitment of an entire day for Jimmy Carroll, a Marymount University junior from Alexandria.
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Letter: Gluten-Free Awareness
Letter to the Editor
After living away from Alexandria for three years, I recently returned and rented a home in Old Town while my nearby home was renovated.
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Letter: ‘Conscience’ Held At Bay
Letter to the Editor
At the behest of a friend, I paid a recent visit to the Fairfax GOP webpage fairfaxgop.org/nomination/ – the link entitled “Nomination Process Information” is displayed prominently on the committee’s homepage – and from the outside looking in, it does seem rather certain the Fairfax GOP has (either inadvertently or deliberately) omitted Virginia House District 44 from this year’s “call for candidates.”
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The Great Falls Farmers Market at the Historic Old Schoolhouse until the Grange Re-Opens
Every Saturday morning, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., this winter the historic Old Schoolhouse comes alive with devoted vendors bringing their wares, set up beautifully, anticipating the visits of farmers market devotees, new discoverers of the market, and occasional visitors.
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Free Tax Preparation for Qualifying Residents
The City of Alexandria is offering free tax preparation to qualifying residents. Taxpayers are eligible if their income is below approximately $35,000 for individuals and $51,000 for families. Expert volunteers from Community Tax Aid, Inc. will ensure that taxpayers apply for all applicable credits and deductions, especially the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, which people often don’t realize they are eligible to receive.
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Reston Town Center Pavilion Transforms into an Urban Off-Leash Dog Park
Dog Days of Summer provides exercise and socialization for Fidos and their owners.

