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On any Saturday morning, Alexandria residents and visitors enjoy the famous farmers’ market in front of city hall. They may not realize they are...

To the editor: I am writing in response to the Feb. 28 Alexandria Times story “Contrabands in Alexandria” that details the talk given by Black...

By Cody Mello-Klein | cmelloklein@alextimes.com Walking past the Mobil gas station on South Washington Street in the 1990s, it would have been difficult to imagine...

The year was 1939. Franklin Roosevelt was President of the United States. World War II started in Europe. Baseball great Lou Gehrig retired after...

By Cody Mello-Klein | cmelloklein@alextimes.com On this year’s particularly frigid Martin Luther King Jr. Day, city officials, members of the Alexandria Society for the Preservation...

By James Cullum  Mercy Street has been cancelled. The second season finale of the Civil War-era drama set in Alexandria aired on March 5, but...