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The High Occupancy Toll lanes project is under construction and Virginia Department of Transportation officials still want to discuss an additional northern terminus in the city of Alexandria.

Among the 321 names of fallen law enforcement officers that were added to the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial in 2012 were Retired Alexandria Police Sergeant Morton “Morty” Ford and Southern Railways Detective Sergeant John Holcombe Woodson, who lived in Del Ray. Both died in the line of duty.

Day in and day out, Virginia’s EMS providers stand ready to respond to citizens in need, providing pre-hospital care to the sick or wounded. Last year alone, EMS providers responded to over 1.2 million calls for help in the commonwealth. That’s approximately 3,327 incidents per day.

T. C. Williams High School defeated Robert E. Lee 9-2 in the quarter-finals of the Patriot District baseball playoffs on May 15 to advance to the semi-finals on May 17. Alec Grosser was named the district’s Pitcher of the Year; Grosser and Noah Ray were selected for All-District First Team.

Iesha Kenney is 15 years old and weighs 132 pounds. She is an A student at the T. C. Williams High School Minnie Howard Campus and plays violin in the orchestra. She is a member of the Titan softball team and she has a gold medal in boxing in the first ever Junior Olympics female world boxing competition.

T. C. Williams High School lost in the semi-final round of the Patriot District soccer tournament on May 15. The T. C. boys fell to Lake Braddock in double overtime and then a shootout giving the Bruins a 2-1 victory. The T. C. girls lost to No. 2 W. T. Woodson 8-0. Despite the loss, both T. C. teams earned a bid to the 16-team Northern Region tournament next week.

Technology students from George Washington and Frances C. Hammond middle schools recently enjoyed a hands-on interdisciplinary experience at Winkler Botanical Preserve.

Last week residents at Marina Towers observed heavy equipment and significant activity at the NRG Potomac River Generating Station site and wanted to know what was happening. Khoa Tran with the City’s Department of Transportation and Environmental Services went to the site to investigate.

The George Washington Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution honored two Alexandria deputy sheriffs with Law Enforcement Commendation Medals at a luncheon on Saturday, May 11. Scott Brice Stephens, co-chair of the Public Service and Heroism Awards, and Paul Wagoner, who chairs the ROTC Awards but was assisting Mr. Stephens, presented Lieutenant Melissa Josiah and Deputy Ernesto Arroyo with certificates and medals during the Chapter's lunch meeting at Belle Haven Country Club.

Who knew that hip-hop has a structure? About 200 students from T. C. Williams High School learned about common literary techniques used in hip-hop and historical literature like Shakespeare and The Great Gatsby.