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Finding the perfect friend for the holidays

Finding the perfect friend for the holidays

By Isabel Alvarez As soon as the turkey is out of the oven Thanksgiving Day, we’re on the quest to find the perfect holiday gifts. We scour the Internet, catalogs and shops for that hallelujah moment [...]

Disqualifying memorial sculpture smacks of hubris

Disqualifying memorial sculpture smacks of hubris

By Ellen Latane Tabb, Alexandria To the editor: Regarding the Freedmen’s Cemetery sculpture controversy: A card laid is a card played. After the final designs were chosen, I remembered that the public was asked to vote for [...]

Political divisiveness has leapt from cable news to Market Square

Political divisiveness has leapt from cable news to Market Square

By Margaret Gerlach, Alexandria To the editor: I am deeply concerned about a troubling trend in political discourse, which I fear will continue past this election and negatively affect future contests. It is a trend of excluding [...]

Election 2012 Voter Guide

Election 2012 Voter Guide

With a fiercely waged presidential campaign, a hotly contested U.S. Senate race and a slew of other decisions on the ballot, it’s easy to overlook the bevy of mayoral, city council and school board candidates competing [...]

Monthly Chat: Interview with David Speck

By Denise Dunbar The Times is pleased to present “Monthly Chat,” a new opinion series featuring a conversation with different Alexandrians. We will introduce you to neighbors that perhaps you didn’t know — and offer new [...]

Alexandria weathers Hurricane Sandy’s arrival

Alexandria weathers Hurricane Sandy’s arrival

By Derrick Perkins and Melissa Quinn Updated 12:16 p.m. Tuesday Though the superstorm has come and gone, Alexandria residents may still be feeling her effects. An apartment building on the 4800 block of Kenmore Avenue underwent [...]

YOUR VIEWS | Discouraged on the Waterfront

On Saturday, the 27th of June, I attended the community-wide charrette for Alexandrias Waterfront Plan held at T.C. Williams High School. Believe me when I say that we have seen this show many times before. [...]

Murder Suspects Competency To Be Decided In August

With two suspects, Jamal Berry and Joshua Moore, to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to the murder of Alexandria Yellow Cab driver Khalil Siddiqi, the final suspect, an Alexandria 17-year-old, will have his competency [...]

ACPS Hires New Assistant Principal at Polk

The Alexandria City School Board voted Thursday (February 19) to hire Carla Carter as the new assistant principal at James K. Polk Elementary School. [...]

Jaycees sponsor shopping spree for low-income youth

Once the elementary-aged kids understood that the $50 limit could not buy a Nintendo Wii, all was well at the Target on Jefferson Davis Highway. 
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