Tag: stadium

ACPS plans to cut down 150-year-old tree

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Residents are banding together to protest Alexandria City Public Schools’ plans to cut down a 150-year-old oak tree at T.C....

T.C. lights trial is postponed

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] The trial to determine whether Alexandria City Public Schools can add lights to T.C. Williams High School's new football stadium...

Plaintiffs file injunction in T.C. lights case

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] The plaintiffs in the T.C. lights case filed a request for an injunction against Alexandria City Public Schools on May...

Judge sends T.C. lights case to trial

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Loudoun Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne ruled on April 17 to send the long-debated controversy over lights at the...

Letter to the Editor: Manifest function and latent dysfunction

To the editor: I believe with every decision and action we should think of what we are doing and how it might affect others. In...

Letter to the Editor: Whither civic justice in Alexandria?

To the editor: What an exceptional tour de force of meaningful, in-depth reporting the Alexandria Times, Denise Dunbar and Missy Schrott have given us this...

Council approves lights for T.C. Williams stadium

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] For the first time since T.C. Williams High School was built in 1965, its football field will have stadium lighting. The...

Our View: Compromise on T.C. lights

History is not inherently good or bad. In Alexandria, we rightly celebrate our storied colonial era, preserve the cobblestone streets that remain and continue...

The great T.C. lights debate begins

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Despite a lawsuit, years of neighborhood opposition and an alleged verbal contract that was upheld for half a century, the...

Letter to the Editor: Do we want lights on every field?

To the editor: If any taxpaying resident needed proof that they are nothing more than a cash cow to those ruling Alexandria, then simply savor...