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Alexandria, VA Alexandria Permit #482 Gazette Packet Attention Postmaster: Time-Sensitive Material
PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Alexandria, VA Alexandria Permit #482 Gazette Packet Attention Postmaster: Time-sensitive material. Address Service Requested To: 1604 King St., Alexandria, VA 22314 25 Cents Vol. CCXXIV, No. 44 Serving Alexandria for over 200 years • A Connection Newspaper October 30, 2008 Missing Officer Found Officer’s body discovered 100 feet from last known sighting during Krafft/Gazette by Louise Photo training exercise. By Derek B. Johnson Gazette Packet he body of 2nd Lt. Frank Stecco of the Fairfax County Police was Tdiscovered Saturday, Oct. 25 in Pohick Bay. Stecco, 42, went missing four days earlier on Tuesday, Oct. Judging Energy Sources 21 while participating in a helicopter res- Co-founder of the bio-tour Alan Palm talks to a group of high school students about alternative energy cue exercise at Pohick Bay Regional Park. sources and the math involved in determining if the alternative source provides more energy than it takes Drowning was listed as the cause of death. to create it. On Monday, more than 150 students from 26 area schools convened at St. Stephen’s & St. According to a Fairfax County Police re- Agnes School for a sustainability conference organized by the school. The event kicked off with a letter of lease, Stecco’s body was found approxi- support from The Honorable Al Gore and a proclamation from Mayor William D. Euille in behalf of the mately 100 feet away from where he was City of Alexandria. Keynote speaker Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network praised the last seen before disappearing. -
Killer Gets Three Years Traces of PCP, Alcohol and Heroin in Victim Made Him ‘Dangerously’ Intoxicated, Attorney Says
Vol. 8, No. 22 Alexandria’s only independent hometown newspaper MAY 31, 2012 Killer gets three years Traces of PCP, alcohol and heroin in victim made him ‘dangerously’ intoxicated, attorney says BY DERRICK PERKINS A remorseful Fabian Johnson apolo- gized to Bob Cory McNeely’s family May 24 shortly before being sentenced to 11 years jail time — with all but three years and five months suspended — for the man’s death. “I wish Bob was still here,” John- son told Alexan- We’re all dria Circuit the authors Court Judge of our own James PHOTO/VERENA RADULOVIC Clark. “I A MEMORIAL THROUGH MUSIC: Alexandrians somberly commemorated the American soldiers who died serving their story and we’re all hope his country on Memorial Day, but they also celebrated their lives with a vivacious jazz concert at Old Town’s Waterfront Park. responsible for our family can The Commodores, the Navy’s premier jazz ensemble, performed as part of the celebration. Not far away at Rocky Versace actions. Plaza in Del Ray, residents and dignitaries held a solemn ceremony for the 67 Alexandrians who perished during the forgive me, Vietnam War. and I hope Judge James Clark - God for- gave me.” Johnson, 19, of Washington, D.C., Virginia Supreme Court kicks alley shot McNeely, 40, twice with a hand- gun during a confrontation on the 1200 block of Wythe St. on October 20. Mc- fight back to local judges Neely, a city resident, succumbed to his Boat club’s access to coveted of a 1972 case. Though city officials wounds at Fairfax Hospital shortly af- waterfront property still quickly declared the decision a vic- terward. -
All Shook up 5.9 Earthquake Photo by Strikes City
Alexandria Gazette Packet 25 Cents Serving Alexandria for over 200 years • A Connection Newspaper August 25, 2011 NewcomersNewcomers && All Shook Up 5.9 earthquake by Photo strikes city. CommunityCommunity GuideGuide J. Larry Golfer Ph By Adam Basile Gazette Packet InsidersInsiders EditionEdition 2011-122011-12 lexandria was shaken by an earthquake that measured 5.9 degrees A otography on the Richter scale on Tuesday, Aug. 23. People flooded onto city streets when the trem- ors struck, looking around in dis- belief. The earthquake’s reach even The earthquake’s effect extended to the world of local poli- is visible in front of the tics. building across the alley from Bittersweet Cafe at See Shock, Page 29 105 N. Alfred St. Primary Upset Underdog candidate pulls victory in state Senate shocker. By Michael Lee Pope And Maya Horowitz Gazette Packet Jeanne Theismann upporters of Del. Adam S Ebbin (D-49) say some- thing changed in the last few weeks of the campaign to re- place longtime state Sen. Patsy /Gazette Packet Ticer (D-30), a shift in momentum that helped vault their candidate to the top of the pack in the hotly contested three-way primary. For months, many Democratic insid- ers predicted a victory for Coun- cilman Rob Krupicka and a third- Former city councilwoman place finish for Arlington School Joyce Woodson congratu- Board member Libby Garvey. Then lates Adam Ebbin on his everything changed. victory in the Democratic primary for Virginia’s 30th See Ebbin, Page 28 district state Senate seat. Alexandria, VA 22314 VA Alexandria, To: 1604 King St., King 1604 To: ted Address Service Reques Service Address material. -
Alexandria Gazette Packet Article
Alexandria Home LifeStyleLifeStyle Gazette Packet Page 21 25 Cents Serving Alexandria for over 200 years • A Connection Newspaper September 11, 2014 Serial Killer? Charles Severance indicted for murdering Nancy Dunning, Ron Kirby, Ruthanne Lodato. By Michael Lee Pope Kirby and Ruthanne Lodato. Gazette Packet “This is a very emotional crime,” Kim Lannear and Andrea said Police Chief Earl Cook at a Jones Blackford of the n eccentric former Alex- press conference this week an- Washington Revels andria man best known nouncing the indictment. “It’s a Jubilee Voices Afor wearing all black, very personal crime.” spouting off at political The murder mystery began more forums about the use of psycho- than a decade ago, when the wife tropic drugs, is of then-Sheriff being charged Jim Dunning with killing “This is a very was found three Alexan- gunned down dria residents. emotional crime. in their Del Ray Photos by Louise Krafft/Gazette Packet Krafft/Gazette by Louise Photos Earlier this home. Even to- Lucinda Metcalf sings a week, an Alex- It’s a very personal day, the crime solo with the Alexandria andria grand remains an un- City Choir. jury handed crime.” settling down a 10- — Alexandria Police Chief memory for count indict- Earl Cook many neigh- ment charging bors in the Del Charles Sever- Ray commu- ance. Police and prosecutors say nity, where Nancy Dunning was a he killed Nancy Dunning, Ron See Severance, Page 5 The Bean Counter Genealogist Char McCargo Bah tolls the Hard Times’s Jim Parker dies at 69. bell as names of the Co-founders of the Friends of Freedmen’s Cemetery buried ancestors are Lillie Finklea and Louise Massoud pause beneath the By Jeanne Theismann called.