Crystal City Metro closures end two weeks early, ahead of Pride and World Cup events
WMATA says weekend shutdowns for the second-entrance project are complete; the new entrance is slated to open next year
Ryan Belmore
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Alexandria, Virginia
Tall ships, fireworks, and live music come to Alexandria's waterfront this weekend
Four tall ships, the 48th annual Jazz Fest and Saturday fireworks anchor the free festival, running Friday through Sunday
Daily Brief | June 10
The City Council walks through the $135 million power plant financing ahead of Saturday's vote, the school board restores Afghan liaisons before Thursday's budget adoption, and Croatia holds its first training session in Alexandria today
School board restores Afghan liaisons and a teacher, holds pay decisions for bargaining, heading into Thursday's budget vote
A last-minute legal warning that the board can't change pay without bargaining narrowed Tuesday's add/delete session to a handful of restorations, with the FY 2027 budget set for adoption Thursday
City Council takes up power plant financing, hears police plan ahead of Saturday votes
City Manager's team walked council through the $135 million PRGS term sheet Tuesday with no vote taken. Approving the term sheet, Phase I land-use approvals and final passage of the FY2027 budget come Saturday, June 13; the Community Development Authority is a separate step, coming in the fall.
June 10 in Alexandria history: The city's World War I homecoming parade
On the warm afternoon of June 10, 1919, nearly a hundred returned soldiers — many of them veterans of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive — marched from King and Patrick streets to Washington and Prince streets in the city's official welcome home from the Great War
Alexandria disability awards to recognize local businesses, advocates
ServiceSource and Pizzano Memorial Fund's Old Town gift shop among this year's recipients
Trinity Rodman, Michele Kang named to inaugural TIME100 Sports list
Spirit star and owner among local figures recognized on global influence ranking
ACPS board takes up FY 2027 budget add/delete tonight ahead of Thursday's adoption vote
Board members go into tonight's work session with proposals to restore Afghan Family Liaisons, Communities in Schools funding, and parts of the renegotiated bargaining agreement that were cut from Superintendent Kay-Wyatt's $7.6 million in May adjustments
Daily Brief | June 9
City officials break ground on Aspect at the former Landmark Mall, the ACHS PTSA newsletter raises alarm over the Braddock Road safety study while city records show ACPS staff helped produce its audit, and Spice Kraft sweeps Taste of Del Ray.
City warns of traffic near Episcopal High School for Wednesday event
The advisory doesn't name the event, but the school is Croatia's World Cup base camp.
City says it invited ACPS into Braddock Road study, but the school didn't take part; PTSA newsletter says it wasn't consulted
The ACHS PTSA's year-end newsletter raises concerns about the W. Braddock Road safety study and publishes a letter aimed at a separate, already-decided project
Spice Kraft sweeps both top prizes at 2026 Taste of Del Ray
The butter chicken pot pie took first place in both the judges' and people's choice categories at the sold-out 17th annual food festival.
City officials, developers break ground on Aspect at former Landmark Mall site
The 390-unit development anchors the 52-acre former Landmark Mall redevelopment, with delivery expected by 2028.
Daily Brief | June 8
ACHS celebrates 962 graduates as the city heads into one of its biggest weeks of the year — a packed City Council docket Tuesday, ACPS budget adoption Thursday, the Croatian national soccer team's World Cup base camp arrival, and Sails on the Potomac at the waterfront this weekend
Bankruptcies climb, food aid falls: the household strain behind Alexandria's slowing economy
New DMV Monitor data shows the region's personal bankruptcy rate rising faster than the nation and food-assistance rolls shrinking, as City Manager Parajon and the police chief prepare to brief council Tuesday