If you had lived in the center of the City of Berlin fifty years ago this month you would have been awakened by the sound of construction equipment and workmen building a wall.
But this would not be an ordinary wall built to protect someone’s garden from rabbits or deer. This wall was built to keep people in and it would become one of the most visible manifestations of tyrannical cruelty ever erected in the modern world.
When remembering Jenny Vaughn-Bates was killed by her estranged husband last September, her friend, Tracy Lane, has to shut down her emotions.
Maybe I’m Confused.
Annual Yearly Progress results are out for 2011-2012. You can see my story on Stafford County’s results here which explains that Annual Yearly Progress, or AYP, is the standards schools need to meet in order to be certified under No Child Left Behind.
Health officials closed Aquia Landing Beach on July 29 after harmful blue-green algae was found in at the confluence of Aquia Creek and Potomac River. The toxic algae that contain microcystins are harmful to humans and can be deadly to pets if ingested, health officials said.
There have been no reported cases of anyone becoming sick after coming in contact with the water.
H&I Electronics at 18805 Fuller Heights Road will take your old TV set for free when dropped off at their store.
Old TV sets are part of a growing e-waste problem in the U.S., where more than 65 million pounds of old electronics have been recycled since 2008. Older cathode ray tube TV sets contain lead, hexavalent chromium and mercury, and EPA officials urges residents to recycle them rather than tossing them out.
Garrisonville, Va. –– Fire and rescue crews were called to a car fire at CVS Pharmacy on Va. 610 this morning.
Crews still were on the scene about 9 a.m., where all of the occupants of the car made it out safely and a nearby home was evacuated as a precaution, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
North Stafford, Va. — Four people were taken to a hospital Thursday night after a serious car crash on Va. 610.
The driver of a 2011 GMC SUV was traveling west on Va. 610 about 8:30 p.m. when she tired to make a left turn onto Eustace Road, in front of a WaWa gas station.
The fire broke out at 8:18 p.m., and after fire crews determined no one was inside the house they began a defensive attack on the fire, said Stafford fire and rescue spokesman Mark Doyle.
No one was injured in the blaze, however, a dog was killed in the fire.
Story and photos by: Marty van Duyne
For PotomacLocal.com
The GEICO Gecko was rocking out to the tunes coming from the stage at the Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair on Friday night.
