Stafford, Va. — Residents got their first glimpse of the proposed Stafford County operating budget for 2013.
The $246.6 million proposed budget comes in at $5.5 million more the current budget, and takes into account increases in employee payments to the Virginia Retirement System, an increase in maintenance cost to the county’s new emergency radio communications system, and increased costs to house prisoners at the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
Stafford, Va. — Several subtle improvements have been made to the Stafford County Board of Supervisors Chamber, making for a more modern and comfortable place for the county’s government to conduct its business.
The Chamber had new audience chairs installed, all with higher back rests. They replaced rows of older cushioned stadium style seating.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A proposal that aimed to ban through trucks on portions of two rural roads in Stafford County has failed.
Though the measure had support from residents who live along Truslow and Enon roads in Stafford County where the proposed ban aimed to limit trucks, representatives from trucking companies in the county said banning trucks along these roads – which are used as cut-through routes to avoid more congested roads like Interstate 95 and U.S. 1 — would mean truck drivers would sit in traffic longer and would burn more fuel.
By Kim Hylander
Prince William County Fire and Rescue Department
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 11. As you change your clocks forward, Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue would like to remind residents to change the battery in their smoke alarm. Smoke alarms provide occupants with an early warning allowing them additional time to escape. Smoke alarms save lives!
STAFFORD, Va. — The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in helping to identify the subject or subjects responsible for spray painting offensive racial slurs on the back of a Stafford church.
On Sunday, March 4, 2012 Stafford deputies responded to Bethel Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church at 135 Chapel Green Road in [south] Stafford for a call of vandalism. Deputies spoke to the Pastor of the church who directed the deputies to the back of the church where they found an offensive racial slur spray painted on the back wall of the church. Indications are that this crime was committed sometime between 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 and 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 4, 2012.
A winter weather advisory is up for Spotsylvania County and areas just to the south of the Potomac Communities, but snow has already made an appearance today.
Flakes were flying at 9 a.m. in portions of the Potomac Communities in Stafford and Woodbridge as a weather system moving east was forecast to bring less than an inch of accumulation to the area. In North Stafford, the snowflakes were enough to coat the leaves of trees as outside temperatures hovered just below 30 degrees.
NBC Poll: Kaine Leads Allen in Virginia Senate Race
NBCWashington.com reports In what will surely be one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate contests of 2012, Democrat Tim Kaine leads Republican George Allen in Virginia by nearly 10 percentage points, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll.
Busch Gardens to debut new roller coaster
WTOP.com reports Busch Gardens is building a new roller coaster in Williamsburg called the Verbolten.
Teachers again this year in Prince William County won’t be getting raises if a proposed budget is approved, and educators Friday took to the streets in protest. What do you think?
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By Uriah Kiser
Starkey, 60, is vying for the Garrisonville District Supervisor seat vacated earlier this year by Delegate Mark Dudenhefer, R-Stafford, Woodbridge. Starkey will face interim Garrisonville Supervisor Ty Schieber during a special election April 3.
RICHMOND, Va. – Applications from young women and men ages 14-17 to participate in a statewide service program are being accepted by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.
DCR is accepting applications for two three-week sessions of the award-winning Virginia State Parks Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), scheduled June 24 to July 14 and July 22 to Aug. 11.
