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The renovation will include a new digital media studio equipped for video production, an updated children’s section, a new study room, and new furniture. To create a more open floor plan, the library will be planned to remove an information desk that currently sits in the middle of the building. A new service kiosk will be added, a library spokeswoman states.

The renovation of the 25,000-square-foot library, located at 8051 Ashton Avenue near Manassas, will cost just under $1 million.


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Stafford County detectives quickly identified and arrested suspects in an early morning robbery at a local motel.

At 12:17 a.m. Wednesday, August 3, deputies responded to the Red Roof Inn at 386 Warrenton Road for a robbery. The victim reported he was in a motel room in the company of Jessica Smalley, 36, of Stafford, when the room door suddenly burst open. Two subjects wearing partial face coverings entered the room, and one brandished a long knife.


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Back-to-school shoppers rejoice: Virginia will waive sales taxes on certain items this weekend during the state’s annual sales tax holiday.

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Virginia businesses have expressed concern over the state of the economy and recent news about the country entering into a recession has only exacerbated these worries.

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Occoquan town leaders tonight will discuss how it will spend nearly $1 million of federal coronavirus relief funds.

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A 19-year-old Chesapeake man charged with arson faces additional charges.

Michael Bowling, 19, faces three additional counts of felony grand larceny, as well as, nine counts of misdemeanor tampering with vehicles. That’s in addition to charges get caught in July: grand larceny and destroying a vehicle


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Three students from Stafford County are recipients of the annual Dunkin’ Regional Scholarship Program which awarded $100,000 in scholarships to local students in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia.

In their free time Williams volunteers as a Stafford Soccer Youth volunteer coach & Tops soccer volunteer.


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Surveillance video captured by a camera at a home in the Georgetown neighborhood in Woodbridge when Marshall was shot and killed July 20, shows two men creeping along an alley between two rows of townhomes before unleashing a hail of more than 30 bullets shot from a rifle and handgun, police said.

Police are still searching for the men depicted in the video and are offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the two.


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