Happy February to all! Do we actually believe the groundhog’s prediction that we will have an early spring?  Let’s hope so after this cold winter. Seminary Hill will host its monthly meeting virtually this Thursday, February 10th at 7:00 p.m. Our guest speaker will be our brand-new City Manager, Jim Parajon. We look forward to hearing from him on a range of topics. The board of Clover College Park Civic Association will be on the Zoom, and a few other civic association presidents are likely to join us as well. We ...Continue Reading

I apologize for having to send out another email so soon after my email over the weekend.  But I need to alert you to a change in the meeting format for tomorrow night's meeting (Tuesday, January 25th at 6:30 p.m.) regarding construction at Karig Estates. As I had indicated, the developer had planned this to be an in-person meeting. Temple Beth El was donating the space for the meeting, but had made it clear that they could not offer a reliable Zoom option from the Temple that would allow participants to hear the ...Continue Reading

Good morning. A short email today to remind you of two upcoming meetings that are of interest of our area, and a notice about a new civic association that has formed in response to the development plans at the ParcView II project on Holmes Run Parkway. The first meeting will be held virtually Monday, January 24th from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. It is a presentation of the Ft. Ward Management and Interpretive Plan. As you may remember, there have been sustained efforts over many years by dedicated volunteers to ensure that prope ...Continue Reading

Happy New Year to all of you!  I hope you enjoyed a relaxing holiday season. Today’s significant snowfall caught us a bit off-guard, and given the state of our street plowing, it caught our city off-guard as well! Let’s hope tomorrow will bring some progress on our streets. Please note that trash collection will slide a day forward this week, since there was no collection today. In light of the virus surge, our next SHA board meeting will be held virtually on Zoom. We had hoped to be able to continue the in-perso ...Continue Reading

I hope everyone enjoyed a happy Thanksgiving holiday. Following our Annual Meeting last month, I appreciate the opportunity to serve as your SHA President for the coming year. We were fortunate to have Acting Police Chief Don Hayes speak to us at our Annual Meeting and provide us with information about the state of staffing at APD and the challenges the department currently faces. I have a few things to share with you as we approach the busy Christmas season.  As we have known, the City is charging forward on ...Continue Reading

I hope everyone has adjusted to Daylight Standard Time now.  I find it hard to see it getting dark before 5:00. A sure sign that winter is coming. I wanted to remind everyone that the Seminary Hill Association Annual Meeting will be held this Thursday, the 18th, at 7:00 p.m. at the Parish Hall of Immanuel Church on the Hill at 3606 Seminary Road. This is our first in-person meeting in over a year. Our board voted to try and resume in-person meetings and we will see how it works. I would ask that everyone ple ...Continue Reading

Happy Halloween!  It has been fun to drive around and see the various decorations people have put up inn our various neighborhoods. I hope many of you have supported the Pumpkin Sale at Immanuel Church, as the proceeds go to numerous local charities. And Immanuel has been very generous to Seminary Hill Association by allowing us to meet in their Parish Hall, so we all should support this major fundraising effort. Fortunately, it looks like the weather will be good for our treat-or-treaters, instead of the drenchin ...Continue Reading

I wanted to alert you to an important meeting being held tonight, Wednesday, October 6th.  Seminary Ridge Civic Association is hosting a forum for the 9 City Council candidates on Zoom from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Here is the message about the forum from Jeanne Jacob, President of Seminary Hill Civic Association.  I encourage you to tune in and listen to this forum. I hope you will join the webinar to hear how the candidates answer 31 different questions on issues of concern to residents of Alexandria including: ...Continue Reading

I hope everyone is enjoying our beautiful fall weather now. I have a few things to bring to your attention today. There is a City-Schools subcommittee virtual meeting today (Monday the 25th) at 5:00 p.m.via Zoom.  I apologize for the very last minute notice of this meeting, but it was just brought to my attention. If you cannot watch today, I am sure the meeting will be taped and we can access it online later. The last item on their agenda is a discussion of recent student altercations at the middle and high scho ...Continue Reading

I apologize for sending another email so quickly, but I want to let you know that the developer has re-scheduled the community meeting for the Karig Estates development to Thursday, September 23rd at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of Beth El Hebrew Community. As I indicated earlier, we don't know the exact date that the actual work will begin because there are still a couple of things that the city is working out with the development. I expect we will learn more at this in-person meeting.  For those unable to attend, I wi ...Continue Reading