Bringing Neighbors Together
Beginning May 5, residents that receive city refuse collection services should separate yard waste from regular trash for special collection. This material will be collected on your regular collection day. Yard waste includes sticks, twigs, grass, leaves, and dead plants. Yard waste should be placed next to your trash container in a reusable container or Read More …
The next meeting of the Duncan Library Poetry Society will feature Del Ray resident Jodie Hollander reading from her poetry collection, The Humane Society. The reading is tomorrow, March 10, at 8 p.m. in the Duncan Library meeting room. The event is free.
The names of several possible tenants for the space now occupied by the Giant grocery store on East Monroe Avenue emerged last week, including ALDI, a 1,300-store national grocery store chain that specializes in selling its own private-label brands. Kin Properties of Boca Raton, Florida, the property owner, has begun actively marketing the 16,000-square-foot space Read More …
Valerie Loomer (left) and Tina Chancey perform during a recent concert in the circa-1920s home of Deborah Brautigam and David Hirschmann on Dewitt Avenue. They performed Irish music from the earliest sources on original instruments. Chancey played baroque violin and viol, and Loomer played theorbo, early guitar, and cittern.
Please attend the rescheduled meeting of the DRCA Land Use Committee this Thursday February 27th at 7:00pm at the Mt. Vernon Rec Center. This meeting will focus around the proposed redevelopment of Route 1 West/ Oakville Triangle. We will have a presentation from City of Alexandria Planning and Zoning Staff as they get ready to Read More …
The owner of the property on East Monroe Avenue currently occupied by a Giant grocery store has begun actively marketing the property to a new user, according to an email received from a staff member at the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership (AEDP), the city’s economic development agency. Giant has announced it will open a much Read More …
The Del Ray Pizzeria won the 2014 Heart of Del Ray Award, awarded last week by the Del Ray Business Association. More than 800 votes were cast for the five nominees, which also included Holy Cow/Pork Barrel BBQ, Mind the Mat, St. Elmos, and Taqueria Poblano. Past winners of the award are A Show of Read More …
“Reincarnations,” the current Del Ray Artisans show, continues until March 2 at the group’s gallery at the Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Ave. “Reincarnations” shows how artists have a way of rethinking, repurposing, refurbishing, recycling, and recreating in ways that can lead to unexpected expressions and alternative effects on the environment.
The MV Big Flea, a giant flea market that serves as the major fundraiser for the Mount Vernon Community School, will be accepting as well as selling donations on Saturday, February 22, between 2 and 4 p.m., at 3815 Mount Vernon Ave. (in the same shopping center as MOMS Organic Market). If you can’t deliver Read More …