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Stafford offices, departments, and facilities will be closed Friday, December 23, and Monday, December 26, 2022, for the Christmas holiday, and January 2, 2023, for the New Year’s holiday.

District, Circuit, and Juvenile Domestic Relations courts will be closed on December 23, December 26, and January 2. Additionally, Juvenile Domestic Relations and District Court will close at noon on December 22, 2022.


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The Central Rappahannock Library Board of Trustees, on Monday, December 12, approved a strategic plan to guide the regional organization to serve more people and to create new opportunities for its users through 2027.

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The show will be on display from February 1 – February 26, 2023, at the Open Space Arts Gallery at Stonebridge in Potomac Town Center. The exhibition is meant to showcase artwork surrounding African American Heritage, life, culture, and experiences.

Artists are invited to showcase how they would interpret different creative works in music, poetry, and monologues from different historical figures. All mediums are welcome based on the subject matter and historical figures named in the descriptive information below. All mediums of visual art are welcome. The collection selected for display will be curated by the Arts Recreation Specialist of Prince William County, Herb Williams.


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The public’s assistance is needed once more to catch two individuals who have shoplifted and assaulted store staff twice.

On Wednesday, December 14, at 8:42 p.m. Deputy S.C. Jett responded to the Old Navy at 1250 Stafford Market Place for a report of a larceny. Two females entered the store and stole $1,000 worth of items. As the women were leaving, one pulled out a canister of pepper-sprayed and attacked a teenage staff member.


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Late fees at public libraries in the Fredericksburg region are a thing of the past.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s Board of Trustees approved a proposal to permanently eliminate fines on overdue materials on December 12, 2022.


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The number of flu, covid-coronavirus, and RSV cases is rising in Virginia.

However, the latter two are mild, said Dr. Bogdan I. Neughebauer, of Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk. Neughebauer held a statewide press conference on Friday, December 16, to discuss the situation for the healthcare provider with locations in Prince William and Stafford counties.


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A sign on the wall of the Prince William County Law Library, recently relocated from the basement to the third floor of the Prince William County Judicial Center, honors former Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul B. Ebert.

The sign states that the library, open to the public, continues the “legacy of service by ensuring access to justice for all.”


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Prince William County Government press release

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors recently approved funding agreements with the Virginia Department of Transportation, or VDOT, for a total of $3.25 million to build and administer two sidewalks that will make pedestrians safer in the Town of Occoquan and along Token Forest Drive in the Coles Magisterial District.


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