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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

City Seeks Input on Park Plans

The Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities is starting a public outreach process.

The city of Alexandria is beginning a nine-month public outreach process to help develop plans for six major, multi-use parks in the city. The Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities is developing management framework plans for the following parks: Four Mile Run Park, Simpson Stadium Park, Chinquapin Park, Hensley Park, Holmes Run Park and Ben Brenman/Armistead L. Boothe Parks. The project’s goal is to study and understand the existing conditions and plan for future needs in each of the parks. Park planners want to know how local residents use the parks, what they like about the parks and what they hope to see in the parks in the future. Their input will help guide the plans and inform decisions on how the parks will evolve…

Leslie Hagan

5:27 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How about finally correcting the grammar error on the Simpson Playing Field? "Our Youth Is Our Future" which means that it is important to be young. It needs to be: "Our Youth ARE our future" which is all about how we value the youth in our city (assuming the City does value our children).   more ›

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Pedestrian Victim of Attempted Sexual Assault at Holmes Run

Incident is second within a month.

Alexandria police are investigating a case in which a man attempted to sexually assault a woman who was walking in the 5300 block of Holmes Run Parkway. The incident occurred at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday in a wooded area just south of the creek. According to police, a 23-year-old Alexandria woman was walking in the park near the community garden area when a man approached her. He began to talk to her, then grabbed her and pulled her into a secluded area, where he attempted to sexually assault her, police said. The woman was able to break free and ran away from the man. The assailant is described as a black man in his early 20s, about 5-foot-7 and 200 to 220 pounds. He was wearing all-black clothing. The woman was not seriously injured. …

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