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By Ella Mitchell | emitchell@alextimes.com The still at Motherwell Co. doesn’t have a name yet. It stands at the center of the warehouse at 877 S. Pickett St. like it’s…3 weeks ago
By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com The Alexandria Times earned 22 awards at the Virginia Press Association’s annual awards banquet, held Saturday night in Lynchburg, Virginia, for work published in 2025.…3 weeks ago
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com On March 19, Mayor Alyia Gaskins announced that Alfred Street Baptist Church would cover more than $1 million in back rent from Alexandria Redevelopment and…3 weeks ago
By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com Restaurateur Barbara Mancini Dirmeyer, best known for running Mancini’s Bakery & Cafe on Mt. Vernon Avenue in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, died April…3 weeks ago
By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com Longtime Alexandria Democratic Party Committee Chair Susan B. Kellom passed away Saturday at Capital Care Hospice following a brief illness. She was 78. In addition…3 weeks ago
By Brandi Yee Spring2ACTion, Alexandria’s Giving Day, provides an opportunity for Alexandrians to come together and give back to the community we love. The ACT team at the waterfront. (Courtesy…3 weeks ago
By Jim McGrath In the fall of 1988, Steve Castle made his first appearance as a teacher at Episcopal High School. Hired to teach math and science, Castle was armed…3 weeks ago
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To the editor: The City of Alexandria has a growing number of vacancies across its boards and commissions, and it is something more residents should be paying attention to. These…3 weeks ago
To the editor: Enough with the excuses – and the lame attempt to invent new words – “snowcrete” – to explain away yet another failed snowstorm response. Now city officials…3 weeks ago
To the editor: In response to President Donald Trump’s desperation measure to get Republican states to gerrymander more Republican congressional districts, Democrats have tried to one-up him with their own…3 weeks ago
To the editor: I am a retired Army officer and a retired federal employee, so I cannot afford to pay for a large and expensive ad such as the one…3 weeks ago
To the editor: Alexandria’s City Council election is around the corner. I strongly feel that it will not serve the residents well if another cookie-cutter Democrat is elected to the…3 weeks ago
By Ella Mitchell | emitchell@alextimes.com Growing up, John Harrington and his parents’ Super 8 film camera could hardly be separated. The young Alexandria native had “a bug for filmmaking” that…3 weeks ago
By Samantha Lambert-Williamson How can a simple email become a powerful connection? Look no further than your email inbox or your Zoom account. When I took over Senior Services of…3 weeks ago
By Peter B. Crouch and Kathryn Garcia-Crouch The boxes usually begin in the dining room. The good china is wrapped first. Bookshelves thin out slowly. A kitchen drawer still holds…3 weeks ago
In 2022, Alexandrians delivered soil representing the lives of lynching victims Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas to the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and met a remarkable woman, Jo Ann…3 weeks ago
By Alison Virginia O’Connell I decided to run for City Council after too many conversations that sounded the same. Tenants in the West End sharing they felt afraid to report…3 weeks ago
By Frank Fannon I am running for Alexandria City Council because I am deeply concerned about the direction our city is heading and believe it is time to bring experienced,…4 weeks ago
ALEXANDRIA PLANNING COMMISSION & CITY COUNCIL APRIL 7, 2026, 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION APRIL 18, 2026, 9:30 AM CITY COUNCIL The items described below will be heard by the Planning…4 weeks ago
By Mark Edelman Spring is upon us in all its color and warmth. Great to be outside, I know – but let’s not forget all of the sparkling theater to…4 weeks ago
Click below for our featured creatives in the April 2026 edition of our “City Creatives” special section. Alison Sigethy, glasswork artist Todd Key, photographer Luis Navas-Reyes, printmaker Barbara Januszkiewicz, painter…4 weeks ago
By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com Few cities can boast of a single leader who during their lifetime helped reshape the four main pillars – artistic, political, business and philanthropic –…4 weeks ago
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com Education Association of Alexandria members remain in the dark about whether the union’s $12.7 million tentative deal on wages and step increases with Alexandria City Public…4 weeks ago
By Ella Mitchell | emitchell@alextimes.com For artist Barbara Januszkiewicz, life is about color. Look no further than her color-driven paintings and sculptures to see just how deeply that ethos drives…4 weeks ago
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com Luis Navas-Reyes teaches studio art to Annandale high schoolers, coming up with all sorts of projects for the students. Between teaching and pursuing his master’s degree,…4 weeks ago
By Ella Mitchell | emitchell@alextimes.com Photographer Todd Key had a spread of photos, cameras and a half-finished coffee in front of him, ready to talk about his journey to the…4 weeks ago
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com Alison Sigethy, always tinkering with sculptures as a child, did not think creating would become her career. Despite her artistic childhood, Sigethy pursued other work for…