A new Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa franchise will open in Lake Ridge on Monday, March 14.

The spa offers deluxe experiences for both the spa beginner and seasoned veteran. Facial spas feature several treatment rooms, including private areas reserved for couples with services the Hot Stone and Himalayan Salt Stone Massage and a variety of facial and waxing services.


North Stafford residents may be getting a new Lidl grocery store.

On Wednesday, the Stafford County Planning Commission unanimously recommended a rezoning classification, from R-1, Suburban Residential Zoning to the B-2, Urban Commercial Zoning on just over two acres at the intersection of Mine Road and Greenspring Drive.


Soon, it could be selling cups of joe to residents of Stafford County and Interstate 95 travelers. Ohio-based Dunham Development applied for a conditional use permit for a drive-through business on Route 17 near Falmouth.

The county’s Planning Commission would need to hear the case, and, afterward, the Board of County Supervisors has the authority to approve the permit.


The Stafford County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a conditional use permit for a drive-through built into a new Dairy Queen restaurant.

The restaurant, known for ice cream-based desserts like the Blizzard, will be near a Waffle House at Celebrate Virginia, off of Route 17 in the Hartwood district in south Stafford.


Located near Wegmans, the new Barnes & Noble is the first to open in Woodbridge and features a café, large book rooms, stationery, puzzles, board games, and toys.

The new store will open at 10 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting and signing by local author TJ Klune, author of Under the Whispering Door – Barnes & Noble’s Speculative Fiction Book of 2021 – and historical fiction author Margaret Rodenberg, author of Finding Napoleon.


A chain restaurant with a location at Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center is lampooning those who chose not to get a coronavirus vaccine.

According to a press release, Nando’s PERi-PERi, a South African chicken restaurant, today launched its “Don’t be an Anti-Apper” marketing campaign to skewer anti-vaxxers who don’t trust coronavirus vaccines from the restaurant.


Woodbridge-based Hot Chickn Kitchn plans to open a new location in Stafford by the end of March.

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It’s been 13 years since Stafford Hospital opened its doors, the first large-scale medical facility for the growing county of more than 157,000 poeple.

The hospital is a 100-bed, Joint Commission-accredited hospital part of Mary Washington Healthcare, which operates Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, and a network of urgent care centers in the region. 


A combination movie house and restaurant will anchor Manassas Park’s new city center development.

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