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City Council candidate Bill Rossello literally has widespread involvement in the Alexandria community. A Baltimore native of Puerto Rican descent, Rossello moved to Alexandria in 1988 and married his wife, Bonnie, a year later. During his more than three decades in the city, Rossello has lived in three of Alexandria’s distinct neighborhoods – Old Town, North Ridge and Seminary Hill. According to Rossello, his long-standing connection to the city and its residents distinguishes him from mos...

69 Developers rendering of how the building would look like from the Braddock Road metro station. Courtesy image. City Council voted to rescind its previous denial of a special use permit for a 180-unit multi-use apartment building during Tuesday’s legislative meeting. Council voted 4-3 during the March 13 public hearing to deny a permit from developer West Street Acquisitions, LLC to build the project across from the Braddock Road Metro station. As initially proposed, the project would incl...

City Council unanimously passed a historic collective bargaining ordinance at a public hearing on Saturday. The newly passed ordinance will mark the first time the city will grant its public sector employees the legal right to collectively bargain. Collective bargaining, which is the legal process by which employees negotiate wages, benefits and working conditions with their employers, has long been outlawed for government workers in the city and the state. Under the new ordinance, city employ...

14 Historic Garden Week normally features tours of Alexandria homes and gardens. This years event is an outside-only walking tour. Courtesy photo. For more than 90 years, Virginians have been opening their homes and gardens to the public for a week in the spring. From April 17 to 24, garden clubs across Virginia will be providing specialty programming for visitors at historic homes and gardens in an event known as Historic Garden Week. In Alexandria, this year’s tour, which takes place on Ap...

City Council, staff and the community engaged in another prolonged discussion about a proposed draft ordinance on collective bargaining during Tuesday’s legislative meeting. Council ultimately voted unanimously to defer further discussion to a later date. The decision to defer discussion on collective bargaining comes amid concerns from both labor unions and council that the scope of the current ordinance is not expansive enough and does not meet the needs of both the city and its workers.The...

The Planning Commission voted unanimously on March 2 to endorse a special use permit to allow Classical Movements, a classical music tour company based in Alexandria, to continue hosting socially distanced outdoor concerts. City Council will make a final vote on the SUP at a public hearing this Saturday. Beginning in June, Classical Movements began hosting small-scale, distanced outdoor concerts in the garden behind its headquarters at 711 Princess St. In November, the future of the concert ser...

At around 9 a.m. on Jan. 15, Yodit Gulelat, the owner of Van Dorn Pharmacy, found herself facing down a growing line of elderly patients eager to get their COVID-19 vaccinations. The pharmacy had just received its first batch of Moderna vaccine doses from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the line outside her door was ballooning. Gulelat, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ethiopia in 1986, worked non-stop to process the winding line of patients. “I didn’t see her take a sip ...

The number of COVID-19 cases in Alexandria has declined sharply since cresting on Jan. 12, while the positivity rate and hospitalizations have also significantly dropped from their peaks. After reaching their zenith at a seven-day average of 95 COVID-19 cases on Jan. 12, the seven-day average number of new cases in Alexandria has dropped by almost two-thirds, to 37 as of Tuesday, according to the Virginia Department of Health. The decline in Alexandria’s overall positivity rate mirrored that ...