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Manassas Park sees a new library, and now a new parking garage for the city’s envisioned downtown development.

A new garage would provide at least 500 more parking spaces needed at the Manassas Park VRE station. The new spaces would be in addition to the 600 spaces already in use at the station on weekdays.


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There just might be room for another Lidl grocer in Stafford County.

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While there are only a handful of homes in Stafford County that are listed for rent on the popular property-sharing website AirBNB, there are lots of individual rooms for rent.

On Airbnb, customers can use a website to reserve a property in the same manner as a hotel. Customers are, however, snagging a room at someone’s home rather than an established hotel.


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Those who live there know: It floods in Falmouth.

Floodwaters ravaged the Historic Port of Falmouth Park on the Rappahannock River in Summer 2018, leaving behind large trees and debris, and closing River Road, which provides access to the park, for days.


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Did you get your property assessment in the mail?

Those important documents that tell Stafford County residents the value of their home, which affects the average tax bill and can affect monthly home payments, were mailed out this week.


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The Fredericksburg City Council is moving ahead with plans to allow an area of the town to have a creative makeover.

The City Council approved a plan this month to create a Creative Maker District in the city’s Old Mill District along Princess Anne Street. The area his home to the Old Silk Mill event venue, and the popular Carl’s Ice Cream shop.


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Anne E. Moncure Elementary School has been sitting empty since last summer.

A new Moncure Elementary School opened about a mile from the original site, at the corner of Garrisonville Road and Doc Stone roads.


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The option for millions of dollars in tax breaks for the owners of a once prosperous shopping center in North Stafford is dead.

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Things are changing in Fredericksburg as new development is popping up across the city.

Now, as city leaders envision what the city will look like in the future, they’ve updated the city’s building standards to ensure that owners of single-family homes in some of the city’s older neighborhoods like College Heights, Normandy Village near Fall Hill Avenue, and Mayfield, on the city’s south side, may renovate to keep up with the times.


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Stafford County Administrator Tom Foley will retire on July 1 after a 30-year career serving jurisdictions in Virginia.

The county will search for a replacement for Foley. His departure comes as the county continues to grow in population and increasingly finds itself increasingly becoming apart of the Northern Virginia region.


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