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What to name a new VRE station?

Widewater, Va. –– There’s a lot of talk right now about a new Virginia Railway Express station in Stafford County.

If it’s built, it’ll be located in the Widewater Peninsula, in the northern portion of the county on the Potomac River.

But as the Free-Lance Star’s Jonas Beals reports there seems to be some disagreement on what to call the new station.

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