Denise Dunbar

Alexandria

Editorial Page Editor at Alexandria Times

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Judge quashes city subpoena in Zoning for Housing lawsuit

1 week ago | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

The judge in the Zoning for Housing lawsuit quashed one of the subpoenas. (Graphic/Jessica Kim) By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] story will continue to be updated. Retired Judge Thomas Padrick Jr. during a hearing on Friday morning quashed the subpoena the City of Alexandria had issued to resident Barbara Beach in the Zoning for Housing lawsuit.
House rebukes FBI report on 2017 Simpson Park shooting

1 week ago | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

Flowers were placed on a dugout on Eugene Simpson Field following the shooting. (Photo/Louise Krafft) By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] Tuesday United States House report lambasted the FBI’s prior determination that gunman James Hodgkinson’s June 14, 2017 attack on the Republican Congressional baseball team in Alexandria was not domestic terrorism nor politically motivated.
McEnearney affiliates with national titan, The Corcoran Group

1 month ago | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] late spring 1988, John McEnearney, proprietor of McEnearney Associates, walked the two blocks from his Old Town office to Burke & Herbert Bank. McEnearney was accompanied by a young couple who were trying to buy their first house. The couple had good jobs and lots of promise, but on paper they did not qualify for a large enough loan to purchase the house. A realtor from another firm had suggested they look in Shirlington, but the couple preferred Old Town.
This is personal

2 months ago | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] much as I love the Alexandria Times and trying to help inform residents about news in our wonderful city, the highlight of my professional career was spending six years at the Central Intelligence Agency playing a small role in helping the United States win the Cold War. That U.S. victory was decades in the making and was the international priority of Democratic and Republican presidents alike from Harry Truman through George H.W. Bush.
BREAKING: ALEXANDRIA FIRE, MEDIC UNITS RESPOND TO PLANE CRASH

Jan 29, 2025 | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

By Denise DunbarAt 8:59 p.m. tonight, Alexandria began dispatching fire and medic units to Reagan National Airport. The units were told it was a “mass casualty event,” that an airplane was in the Potomac River and they were to go to runway 33. At least 10 Alexandria fire and medic units were dispatched to help with the rescue attempt, according to dispatches heard on openmhz.com.
Alexandria fire, police respond after plane, helicopter collide into Potomac

Jan 29, 2025 | alextimes.com | Hannah Marr |Caitlyn Meisner |Denise Dunbar

Alexandria's fire and police departments are assisting in search and rescue effort following the collision. (Photo/Arwen Clemans) By Hannah Marr, Caitlyn Meisner and Denise DunbarThis is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Alexandria honors Katy Cannady's lifetime of service

Jan 22, 2025 | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

Katy Cannady’s high school senior portrait. (Courtesy photo) By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] intellectual is someone with a curious mind who constantly seeks opportunities to learn. A rabble-rouser is someone who stirs up the public and makes trouble – benevolently if they think it’s necessary for the greater good. Katy Cannady continues to personify both definitions even as she prepares to move to an assisted living facility in Nebraska this month.
Alexandria needs public K-8 schools

Jan 22, 2025 | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

Denise Dunbar | [email protected] love the K-8 model for educating students in kindergarten through eighth grade. My husband and I were so adamant that this was the type of school we wanted for our three children that we sent them to Alexandria Country Day School beginning in the early 2000s – back when Alexandria had no public K-8 schools. It was a difficult decision, as we had both attended public schools from kindergarten through high school and strongly support public education.
Better with Age: Mary Page Hickey's life journey to becoming a botanical painter

Nov 20, 2024 | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] finding one’s passion is actually a calling rather than a pursuit. Alexandria resident Mary Page Hickey feels that way about her path to becoming an accomplished botanical painter. “I didn’t choose this – it chose me,” she said of melding, over time, her love of horticulture, the environment and art into the beautiful watercolors she creates at the small, well-lit table in her home studio.
'The Sound of the Wind' depicts Ukrainian family's struggle

Nov 13, 2024 | alextimes.com | Denise Dunbar

PHOTO/‘THE SOUND OF THE WIND’ By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] know war can extract the very soul from soldiers who witness, and sometimes participate in, unspeakable atrocities.