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Portions of George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia to be closed for tree maintenance

By Valerie Bonk

If you’re planning to travel on George Washington Memorial Parkway starting on Wednesday, you’ll want to make a plan ahead of time for upcoming road closures.

The National Park Service is closing the southbound lanes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway from Tulane Drive to Morningside Lane between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2, 6 and 7 to complete tree trimming.

Traffic will be diverted from the parkway onto Park Terrace during the tree work.

A map of the detour for tree trimming on the George Washington Parkway. (Courtesy The National Park Service)

These closures support the National Park Service’s mission to preserve safe access to the parkway while protecting the scenic and natural resources along the Potomac River corridor.

“This is part of the park’s larger efforts to conduct tree maintenance along the George Washington Memorial Parkway between Mount Vernon and just south of Alexandria,” the National Park Service said in a news release.

US House campaigns are underway. Yet a redistricting battle triggered by Trump rages in some states

By The Associated Press
Candidates are campaigning and voting is underway in some primaries. Yet a national battle to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage is still raging in some states ahead of the November midterm elections. Voters in Texas and North Carolina already have cast ballots in primary elections for U.S. House districts redrawn at President Donald Trump's urging. But the final boundaries for voting districts remain uncertain in Missouri, even though candidates already are filing for office. And they also are unclear in Virginia, where new congressional districts could hinge both on a voter referendum and court rulings. Voting districts typically are redrawn once a decade, after each census. But Trump triggered an unusual round of mid-decade redistricting when he urged Texas Republicans last summer to redraw House districts to give the GOP an edge in the midterm elections. California Democrats reciprocated, and a tit-for-tat redistricting clash soon spread. So far, Republicans believe they could win nine additional seats in states where they have redrawn congressional districts, while Democrats think they could gain six seats elsewhere because of redistricting. But that presumes past voting patterns hold in November. And that's uncertain, especially since the party in power typically loses seats in the midterms and Trump faces negative approval ratings in polls.
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