He served as Occoquan’s mayor for eight years, during which time he worked on several large projects for the community. The projects include the purchase of the Oaks III property, a sightseeing shuttle service, and a conservation easement to create public park space in Occoquan.

The Linton Hall Road Interchange project began back in 2011 and is projected to conclude this summer. It's budgeted for $230 million, according to the VDOT website. It includes four new bridges, a traffic signal removal, a concrete sidewalk, shared-use path, ten retaining walls, and new roadway lighting.

The business has always been located in Occoquan, but Merklein wanted to move to a larger space in the community.

The county will hire around an additional 20 camp counselors to add to their returning summer camp staff roster, said Heather Hamm, Recreation Programmer for the parks and recreation department.

“If successful, our grant application would provide us with the staffing to ensure minimum four-person staffing on our career-staffed engines for the grant performance period,” said Mark Lockhart, County Fire Chief for the Stafford County Fire and Rescue Department, continuing, “This is a first step toward our Public Safety Staffing Plan that provides direction for the department’s staffing. It is our hope that our grant will be approved so that we can continue to move forward to ensure the safety and well-being of our residents.”

“I have nothing against Corey [Stewart] personally – I just look at the results…we’ve been promised jobs here for a while…I hear talk about fiscally conservative values, but I see the taxes going up. I hear talk about how we should pull back the residential housing developments until our infrastructure can catch up and our schools, and I see people [on the board] still championing those initiatives…and I see that as a lack of leadership from the board of county supervisors. I feel like I can get us back on track,” Crawford stated.

Anderson has her Master’s degree in Nursing from the University of Kansas. During her 21-year career in the United States Air Force, she worked in emergency service and intensive care units, including command over medical units at the Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, according to a release.

“We had Madigan’s Grille, which was up on Old Bridge Road…from 1997 until 2007,” said Madigan, continuing, “My husband always wanted to have a restaurant on the water. This is really his dream…we’ve lived in Florida and North Carolina for a long time, and we ended up settling at Madigan’s Grille, but when this location [in Occoquan] became available, then we jumped at it.”

“This is something that we’ve been looking into…we’ve been looking at this for a while. It just kind of got pushed to the forefront with Stafford starting to charge [for landfill use]. [Dumping] is not a big issue here – but sometimes there are people trying to get down here, and we just want to get it before it becomes a problem. You’ve got to realize we’re right here at the Staffordline,” Jenkins said. 

After a bidding process that began in January, the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved a bid on February 24 from Southwood Building System, Inc. for the project, according to county documents.