Tag: lee street
Your Views: Keep Lee Street
To the editor:
Keep the name Lee Street and use the conundrum to promote the city. Perhaps the intent of long-ago city officials, who...
Your Views: Battle over Lee Street
To the editor:
How fortunate we are to have vigilant citizens like Alex Sprague to awaken the oblivious among us to the historical implications...
Your Views: Don’t rename Lee Street
To the editor:
The campaign to change the name of Lee Street ignores a great deal of history. As a long-time resident of South...
Residents divided over petition to rename Lee Street
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Residents of Lee Street were surprised to hear a knock on their doors a few weeks ago. Upon opening their...
Our View: A special celebration of Halloween
Some events are quintessentially Alexandria.
Two that come quickly to mind are the Scottish Christmas Walk in December that celebrates the heritage of many of...
The history of Halloween on South Lee Street
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
If you ask any Alexandria resident where the best trick-or-treating in the city is, most will have the same answer:...
Lower King Street could become a pedestrian-only zone
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
From the historic Trafalgar Square in London to the eight-block-long pedestrian mall in Charlottesville, it’s not unusual for cities to...
A civil fight over an Old Town landmark
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
It’s not often that Alexandria’s various historic preservation organizations band together to oppose a project, but one family’s home improvement...
King Street Art Festival to limit parking this weekend
After being rescheduled due to weather, the King Street Art Festival will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday...
Updated: Alexandria prepares for impacts of Hurricane Florence
By Alexa Epitropoulos| [email protected]
Hurricane Florence update:
National Weather Service's forecast at 11 a.m. on Wednesday showed Hurricane Florence making landfall on the South Carolina and...
