By Hannah Shiblaq | hshiblaq@alextimes.com The Alexandria City School Board- City Council ad hoc committee on election reform met for the third and final time on Tuesday evening and voted 3-1 to ...
By Jim McGrath | jmcgrath@alextimes.com On Oct. 15, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ hopes of returning to the World Series were squashed by a pesky but talented Milwaukee team, which swept the Angelenos four ...
By Jim McGrath | jmcgrath@alextimes.com Girls teams from St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School broke a three-year run by rival Episcopal High School to claim the 18th Seminary Hill Cup last week at the ...
By Gayle Converse The day was Aug.30,1920, a mere four days following the certification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alexandria resident Dolly Peyton Shepperson became the first ...
By Dr. David Rose When I first joined the Alexandria Health Department, I spent a lot of time introducing myself to the community. Often over Zoom – as we were still emerging from a heavily virtual ...
By Rev. Ian Markham The Harvard Study of Adult Development, directed by Robert Waldinger, was an extraordinary study. It started in 1938 when a group of 724 men agreed to be interviewed every two ...
As we approach Women’s History Month, I’ve been reflecting on the strength and impact of women as a collective. There is something deeply powerful that happens when women truly show up for one another ...
By Jess Purtell When I led a yoga and Pilates retreat in the Sacred Valley of Peru, I chose the theme of “Disconnect to Reconnect” with a mantra of “everything you need is already inside you.” As a ...
By R. Kirk McPike In October 2019 my husband, Jason, and I got married. In the lead-up to our wedding, we were worried about so many things: flowers, music, clothes and which guests should sit where.
Alexandria Journalism Project More than 14,000 different types of potentially hazardous chemicals known as PFAS have been ...
By Hannah Shiblaq | hshiblaq@alextimes.com Jharett Bryantt, Ed.D., was appointed as the new superintendent of Alexandria City ...
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com Witney Schneidman’s new book starts out with a simple anecdote: him chatting with ...