Alexandria students spruce up public buildings, yards during Day of Caring
All the spring cleaning was part of the annual Day of Caring – a partnership between the United Way of Douglas and Pope Counties and Discovery Middle School. Written By: Al Edenloff | ×
Discovery Middle School students rake mulch away from a sidewalk at the Alexandria Area YMCA on Friday, May 21. This group includes (left to right) Abby Koppman, Kataia Roquette, Logan Ewoldt (in back) and Otto Henrich. (Al Edenloff / Echo Press)
Discovery Middle students in Alexandria have been on a mission.
Wearing bright blue shirts, more than 350 eighth-grade students fanned across Douglas County, doing good deeds for others by cleaning up lawns, raking, washing windows, tidying up gardens, doing landscaping work and completing painting projects.
Alexandria liquor store sales off to a busy start in 2021
Sales at Downtown Liquor are up $50,954 while the Plaza Liquor sales are up $81,675 compared to a year ago. Written By: Al Edenloff | ×
Andy Mellgren, manager of Alexandria s two city-owned liquor stores, lifts a case of beer in the cooler at Plaza Liquor. (Al Edenloff / Echo Press)
New reports from Alexandria s two city-owned liquor stores, Downtown Liquor and Plaza Liquor, show that sales are up.
Sales at both stores this past January and February exceeded the sale totals from those same two months in 2020, according to a report that was in the Alexandria City Council’s March 8 meeting packet.