FREDERICKSBURG — Reclaim Video offers an experience that promises to take its customers back to the past — for free.
Last May, the neighborhood movie rental store opened its doors. One of the last of its kind, the video store’s walls are covered with VHS tapes, Laserdisc movies, and other popular formats from that past.
STAFFORD –– Stafford County will pass responsibilities for aquatics classes onto a Fredericksburg-based sports management group.
Eastern Sports Management will take over teaching aquatics classes at the Jeff Rouse Swim and Sport Center in Embrey Mill starting this summer. It’s the same firm that has overseen day-to-day operations for the Rouse Center since 2014.
STAFFORD — A new pedestrian path could link North Stafford with an area along Route 1 known as “The Wayside.”
Located just south of Coal Landing Road and once a rest stop along busy Route 1, “The Wayside” today is full of trees and was once a pull-off for highway drivers.
STAFFORD — A wider Courthouse Road will come with upgraded water and sewer infrastructure ahead of what Stafford leaders hope will be a new centralized downtown for the county.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors authorized a betterment agreement with a contracting firm to upgrade the water and sewer infrastructure along Interstate 95 and Courthouse Road near both the county courthouse and Route 1.
STAFFORD — On Feb. 27, 2009, the doors of Stafford Hospital opened to the public. Before its opening, the only nearby hospitals that Stafford residents could go to for medical care was Mary Washington in Fredericksburg and Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge.
Each opened in 1900 and 1973, respectively. By 2009, the population in Stafford County had increased to 128,000 people, and the county needed a hospital it could call its own.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — John Gray submitted paperwork with the Prince William County Republican Committee to be a candidate for Chairman of the Prince William County Board Supervisors.
Gray has lived in Lake Ridge for over 30 years and has been a CPA in the county since 1989.
STAFFORD — The Stafford County Board of Supervisors will seek cash to help dredge Aquia Harbor.
At its February 19 meeting, the Stafford County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved to file grant application on behalf of the Aquia Harbour Property Owners Association (AHPOA), which manages a gated community of 2,300 homes along the Aquia Creek in North Stafford.
PRINCE WILLIAM FOREST PARK — Two historic bridges are getting makeovers after the Federal Government’s partial shutdown.
Prince William Forest Park reopened like all the other National Parks after the Federal Government’s partial shutdown, but two historic, rotting bridges, The South Fork Timber Bridge on Scenic Drive and The Pyrite Mine Bridge, are both closed to the public while they undergo repairs and rehabilitation.
WOODBRIDGE — OmniRide felt the sting of the latest partial government shutdown.
Ridership on OmniRide express commuter buses fell 15.6 percent from January 1st through the 25th. That comes to a loss of 788 passengers per day and resulted in the loss of $5,169 per day in fare revenue.
RICHMOND — An anti-tolling bill has unanimously passed the transportation subcommittee in the Virginia House of Delegates.
House Bill 2527 was presented by Tim Hugo (R-40, Fairfax, Prince William). If the bill were to become law, it would prevent localities from imposing tolls on Prince William and Fairfax County parkways without the approval of the General Assembly.
