Tag: old town

By Kaitlin Murphy | [email protected] As reported in the Times’ April 7 article “Is business booming?,” a revised Business Improvement District is being considered in Old Town...

On June 19, 1865, two months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House and two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the...

  By Boyd Walker  Welcome to Alexandria where we support small businesses and public engagement! With one number, 311, you can contact city hall (alexandriava.gov/Alex311) and we aim to...

To the editor: Recently my husband and I attended a musical performance based on the “Alexandria Suite,” a setting of poems about Old Town by...

By Kaitlin Murphy | [email protected] Civic-minded couple Jim Lewis and Trevor Riley met in July of 2013. Trevor, who works in theater, lived in Washington,...

By Brianne McConnell | [email protected]   The plan to redevelop the site along the Potomac River, where the old Potomac River Generating Station sits, has cleared...

By Patrick Burchette and Brian Branton Walking along the 200 block of Prince Street, many a passerby has probably noticed the beautiful four-story 18th century...

By Leslie Golden | [email protected] Southern Living magazine ranked the Old Town Farmers’ Market as one of the top 12 markets in the South. Since...

By Brianne McConnell | [email protected] First in a series For the second time in six years, a business improvement district is being considered in Old Town. Many...

  To the editor: I feel as if I’m living in a militarized zone. As I look out my front windows, all that I see are...