Tag: del ray

Your Views: Staff again choose developers over residents

To the editor: For nearly a year, civic associations and residents around the city have been asking to play a bigger role in city decisions,...

VeloCity bike co-op celebrates 10th anniversary

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The Del Ray-based VéloCity Bicycle Cooperative is celebrating 10 years of serving the Alexandria community. John Patterson and Christian Myers co-founded...

Alexandria’s Halloween festivities adapt to the pandemic

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] For the first time in more than a decade, Lee Street won’t be the Halloween spectacular it usually is. With COVID-19...

Del Ray celebrates wellness month in new Wellness District

By Lindsey Sullivan | [email protected] In a neighborhood as active as Del Ray, it’s only fitting that a new “Wellness District” has been established. In late...

City experiences another ‘100-year’ flood

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] On the afternoon of Sept. 10, flash flooding at a rate as high as 3 inches in 10 minutes overwhelmed...

Del Ray pizza joint Piece Out opens mid-pandemic

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Opening a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic might seem risky. For Larry and Christine Ponzi, owners of Piece...

Summer Sidewalk Sale takes place this weekend

By Olivia Tucker | [email protected] The city’s annual Summer Sidewalk Sale takes place this weekend in Old Town and Del Ray. On Aug. 15 and 16,...

Jim Breeding, Al’s Steak House owner, dies at 52

By Olivia Tucker | [email protected] James Vincent Breeding, owner of Al’s Steak House, died on July 26 due to complications from diabetes. He was 52. Jim,...

Home profile: What makes a house a home

By Margo Wagner | [email protected] Brigid Schulte and Tom Bowman’s two-story Terrett Avenue house is a place where children grow and learn, neighbors gather and...

Flash floods strike Parkfairfax, Del Ray

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Parts of Alexandria experienced flash flooding after more than 2.5 inches of rain fell in the city in less than...