
Lexington’s Washington Street gets Yarn Bombed
During the Arts of Lexington Block Party on Friday, visitors, shoppers, and random pedestrians will notice a lot more color on Washington Street on the block between Main Street and Jefferson Street.

During the Arts of Lexington Block Party on Friday, visitors, shoppers, and random pedestrians will notice a lot more color on Washington Street on the block between Main Street and Jefferson Street.

Matt Jones ran for 123 yards and two touchdowns, leading the Washington Redskins to a 24-10 win over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday at FedEx Field.

David Brooks, an author and a bi-weekly op-ed columnist for The New York Times, will give a talk at Washington and Lee University on Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. in Lee Chapel on W&L’s campus.

Stephen Strasburg put in one of the better pitching performances of the 2015 MLB season, striking out 14 and allowing just one hit in eight innings in a 4-0 Washington win at Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Danny Espinosa scored on a Yunel Escobar fielder’s choice in the 11th to lift the Washington Nationals to an 8-7 win in Pbiladelphia Monday night.

Danielle S. Allen, professor of government and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, is the first speaker in the 2015–16 Ethics of Citizen series, sponsored by the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at Washington and Lee University.

Washington lost its fifth straight game, 2-0, Saturday at Miami, falling a season-high nine and a half games back in the National League East with 21 games left in the 2015 season.

The J. Lawrence Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship at Washington and Lee University announced that the keynote address for its fourth annual Entrepreneurship Summit will be given by Stephen Denny, marketing consultant and the author of “Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath In Your Industry.”

Governor Terry McAuliffe dedicated on Thursday a new bridge that carries Washington Boulevard (Route 27) over Columbia Pike (Route 244) in Arlington, as the “Freedmans Village Bridge,” in honor of Freedmans Village, a historic community that once occupied the surrounding land and was a refuge for freed and fugitive slaves during the Civil War.

Stop us if you’ve heard this story before. The Washington Nationals bullpen once again faltered in a 2-1 loss at Miami on Friday night.