Tag: Alexandria City High School

Bomb threat leads to high school evacuation

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Alexandria City High School and its Minnie Howard campus were evacuated on Dec. 10 after a bomb threat on social...

My View with John Porter: A time to give thanks

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays of the year – a time for family, food and fun. It is also a time to...

School Board discusses SRO return, updating police MOU

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] With school resource officers returning to Alexandria’s middle and high schools through the end of the school year after City...

Your Views: Diversity needed on School Board

To the editor: I am writing in response to the letter in the Oct. 7 Alexandria Times, “Don’t ignore the School Board election.” The...

Your Views: Latinos do support SROs

To the editor: I’m writing to you about the issue of safety and the School Resource Officers that I’ve seen in the news lately....

Our View: Uptick in violence, descent into lawlessness

The past few weeks have been the worst in recent memory for serious crime in Alexandria. Since Sept. 21 there have been four shootings and...

Council returns SROs to schools, temporarily

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] School Resource Officers will return to Alexandria’s high school and middle schools temporarily as the city and schools work to...

Your Views: Return. SROs. Now.

To the editor: It was truly something to witness firsthand the dismissive attitude of Alexandria’s City Council over the school resource officers issue. We...

Student with gun arrested outside ACHS

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Alexandria City High School was put on lockdown Wednesday morning after a student with a gun was arrested by Alexandria...