On Saturday, the Friendship Fire Company marks its 252nd year with the Friendship Firehouse Festival along the 100 block of ...

By Jim McGrath | jmcgrath@alextimes.com Troy Isley is not a boxer to be taken lightly. In fact, Isley is arguably the most ...

By Mark Edelman Though their ranks have thinned a bit before the new season begins, our local theaters nevertheless give us ...

By Elona Michael | emichael@alextimes.com At age 12, Cynthia Farahat promised her grandmother that she would open a ...

By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com The City of Alexandria is applying for up to $27 million in SMART SCALE funding for ...

By Jess Purtell A couple of weeks ago, the sky over Alexandria turned the color of an old photograph, a sepia-toned orange.

By Heather Peeler Earlier this month when I watched fireworks that celebrated our country and our city’s founding, I felt what I imagined many Alexandrians felt: gratitude, community and something ...

By James Libresco | jlibresco@alextimes.com Revived plans to reconfigure portions of the Taylor Run stream have been ...

By Mary Ellen Rotondo Homeownership comes with two kinds of maintenance: the annual tasks that happen once a year and the ...

By Rob Whittle As I write this, I’m coming off about 16 games of solitaire. Friends ask me how I can play this game so often since, unlike other online games, there’s no opponent. Ah, but there is an ...

By Kim Davis Alexandria is well known for its charming Old Town district, which began as a seaport on the Potomac River ...