The softball field at Mountain View High School and the baseball field at Duff Park have both been closed for the day, according to Stafford County officials.
Employees with the county’s parks and recreation department will continue to monitor the fields, watching for improved conditions throughout the day.
The sounds of the country
Blake Shelton has been singing country tunes since he graduated from high school in 1994. Now he’ll be singing them for you tonight at 9 p.m. at Celebrate Virginia Live, at Central Park in Fredericksburg. There are a limited number of special tickets available, so those who haven’t already gotten their seat should head over the venue’s Web site.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – It’s a double edge sword: officials want residents to have green lawns but they also need them to conserve water.
Stafford County leaders this week voted to charge residents less on their monthly water bills, temporarily suspending for 60 days the $23.55 per thousand gallon charge for residents who use more than 26,000 gallons of water each month.
A new study is underway examining the possibility of raising the speed limit from 65 to 70 mph between U.S. 17 in Falmouth to Joplin Road, just north of the Stafford County line in Triangle.
The study is underway but there is no preliminary information about when it could be complete or how much it is going to cost, said Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Tina Bundy.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – A woman who was found face down in her pool Thursday has died.
The 61-year-old victim, Mi Kang, died at 1:30 a.m. Friday at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg.
UDPATE: The house trailer that fell onto the Capital Beltway on Thursday afternoon and snarled traffic has been removed.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. – Michaela never made it to the dentist Thursday to get her braces adjusted.
The 15-year-old girl and her mother, Rulla Andress, rode a medical transport van to her dentist’s office, in the 2200 block of Opitz Boulevard in Woodbridge.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – In addition to watching it live on TV, now Stafford County residents can watch archived Board of Supervisors meetings on the county’s Web site.
A newly redesigned Web site has includes video playbacks of Board meetings from Jan. 5 through the latest meeting on Tuesday, said Stafford County spokeswoman Cathy Riddle.
Investigators last week said newly discovered forensic evidence linked the death of 20-year-old Morgan Harrington, who disappeared from a Metallica concert at University of Virginia in October, to the case of a 26-year-old woman who was abducted and raped while walking home to her apartment complex on Jermantown Road in 2005.
Harrington traveled to UVA with friends to see the band perform, but later separated from her friends and then went missing.
TRIANGLE, Va. – A Triangle woman died in a New Jersey hospital after suffering injuries from a house fire in Jamesburg, N.J. last weekend.
Michelle Gonzalez, 25, died Wednesday morning from complications from smoke inhalation, according to a mycentraljersey.com published report.
