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Alexandria Home Sales: February, 2016
In February, 2016, 120 Alexandria homes sold between $3,700,000-$102,000.
Alexandria Home Sales: February, 2016
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Springfield: Lake Accotink Park ‘Loved to Death’
The master plan revision for the park will take around 18 months, community involvement sought.
Fairfax County Park Authority began the master plan revision process for local park, Lake Accotink
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Letter: Seniors Volunteering in Schools
To the Editor
I am writing in regard to the great article highlighting the Greenspring volunteers at Crestwood Elementary School (“Reading Dr. Seuss at Crestwood Elementary,” Springfield Connection, March 10-16, 2016).
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Area Roundups
Weekly happenings in the area.
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Week in Fairfax
Weekly happenings in Fairfax.
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Food Trucks are the Kitchen at Local Breweries
Food trucks serving microbrewery customers across the area.
At Port City Brewing in the western Alexandria, the “pearl,” a layered dish of macaroni and cheese, baked beans and barbecue meat, is downed with a micro beer so it’s known to bring on a “food coma” of sorts.
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Letter: Gerrymandering Promotes Partisanship and Polarization
To the Editor
Everywhere we turn today, the media is bombarding us with antics of the current presidential campaign.
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Caregiving
Workshops and seminars for seniors and caregivers.
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Centreville: Westfield Boys’ Basketball Wins State Championship
Bulldogs first Fairfax County team to win states since 1981.
The Westfield boys' basketball team won the state championship.
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Vienna: Oakton Girls’ Basketball Upset by Langley in State Semis
Cougars fall short at VCU for second straight season.
The Oakton girls' basketball team finished the season with a 29-1 record.
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Column: Some Final Thoughts on the Budget
Commentary
The General Assembly has adjourned sine die, from the Latin “without day,” meaning without assigning a next day for this session. However, we will meet again on April 20 for the reconvene session where we will spend a day voting on whether or not to sustain the Governor’s vetoes. We can expect at least 20 vetoes, which is a good thing since some of the bills we passed deserve no less.
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Mount Vernon Brief: Scholarships Offered
United Community Ministries (UCM), in partnership with global research and development organization Battelle, has announced the Battelle-UCM Scholarship program for 2016.
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Alexandria: Euille Meets with Inmates
Former mayor discusses need for jobs to curb recidivism.
“Before we start, I want you to know that I can’t do anything to get you out sooner,” said former Mayor William Euille to inmates at the Alexandria Detention Center on March 10. Euille spoke about his own experiences with successes and defeats throughout his life, including his recent loss to Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg.
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Alexandria: Make Eisenhower Great Again
City Manager Mark Jinks lays out plans for Eisenhower area.
While the city makes adjustments to local transit and fosters more cultural activities in the Carlyle and Eisenhower area, there’s been no word yet on the biggest issue affecting the Eisenhower Valley: whether or not the Transportation Safety Administration will move into the long-vacant Victory Center. At the March 10 meeting of the Eisenhower Partnership, City Manager Mark Jinks said that the city’s been hearing that they’ll find out whether or not Alexandria will be the new TSA home “any day now” since a judge voided the contract in November 2015.
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Great Falls: Langley Girls’ Basketball Finishes State Runner-Up
Saxons fall to Cosby in 6A championship game.
The Langley girls' basketball team finished state runner-up.
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Alexandria People At Work: Back to Kindergarten
Ponytails and polka dots bounce through the door at Douglas MacArthur Elementary School a few minutes before 8 a.m. The noise gradually levels off, and the daily kindergarten routine begins.
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Alexandria: Church Offers Grants to Nonprofits
For the fifth year in a row, Westminster Presbyterian Church opened its call for local grant applications as part of its local mission program. The grant program seeks to award $25,000 to local non-profits in 2016 who aid children, hunger, education, shelter or self-sufficiency for Northern Virginia residents. To date, the Westminster Community Grant Program has awarded 23 grants totaling more than $85,000 to local community programs.
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Alexandria Snapshot: Read Across America
To celebrate Read Across America, Cora Kelly School invited Sheriff Dana Lawhorne, Deputy Valarie Wright and other guest readers from the community to read books to their students. The Read Across America campaign is held annually during the anniversary of the birth of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as children’s author Dr. Seuss. Lawhorne and Wright visited Cora Kelly on March 2 and read to students in a classroom and in the library. Lawhorne wore a “Cat in the Hat” hat as he read “Miss Nelson is Missing” and Wright, wearing a big green and white hat, read “The Lady with the Alligator Purse” to the students.
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Potomac: Whitman Girls' Basketball Team Wins State Championship
Vikings beat Western in 4A state final.
The Whitman girls' basketball team won the 4A state title.
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Alexandria Brief: SSA Receives $1,500 Grant
Senior Services of Alexandria has received a $1,500 grant from Meals on Wheels America for its participation in Subaru of America’s eighth annual Share the Love Event. During the event held Nov. 22, 2015 through Jan. 2, 2016, Subaru of America, Inc. donated $250 for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased to the customer’s choice of participating charities, including Meals on Wheels America, of which SSA is a Member.