That’s what happened Saturday at the Aquia Terrace apartments in Stafford, when about 10 residents of the complex paid $5 each to rent a table to sell their wares.
To make it more interesting, the apartment complex sold hot dogs and drinks for $1 each and donated the money to charity.
Stafford County, Va. –– A Stafford racing tradition will make its return to the Potomac River..
The Rockhill Ruitan’s Club Cardboard Boat Regatta will be held Saturday at Aquia Landing Park.
For weeks I have declined to mow over a small volunteer petunia growing beside my driveway. You see, I don’t have the best of luck growing things that I have planted so when a petunia sprouted up on its own I didn’t have the heart to mow it down while trimming the rest of the lawn.
Would you mow over a petunia for the sake of a perfectly manicured lawn or let it grow?
The program is the first of its kind in the school division, but Colonial Forge is enrolling 192 more students in the fall than the school was designed to hold, reports Fredericksburg.com.
The school system’s policy allows high students to transfer into other schools that do not offer similar academic programs at their own schools. However, the policy was revised last year to allow the school superintendent to override transfer decisions.
The President’s draw down from Afghanistan may mark the beginning of the end of our almost ten year involvement in that country.
The thousands of American and allied Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines who have served in that “graveyard of empires” have helped make our world more secure by disrupting the havens of al Qaeda terrorists and taking down the regime of their Taliban hosts. Although these successes may be temporary, they were achieved in a very inhospitable environment.
Flames broke out at 44 Joshua Road in North Stafford, just off Garrisonville Road (Va. 610).
Two adults and one child were inside the house when it caught fire, and all of them managed to escape the burning house without injury, said Stafford fire and rescue spokesman Mark Doyle.
A Stafford sheriff’s deputy traveling south on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) saw an SUV headed in the opposite direction traveling at a high rate of speed. The deputy flipped on his emergency lights and began pursuit.
The deputy pulled up behind the truck and told his dispatch center he was pursuing gray Chevrolet Silverado with Oklahoma license plates traveling at 69 mph, said Stafford Sheriff’s Maj. David Decatur.
Potomac Point Winery opened in 2007, the brain child of Cindy and Skip Causey who both have long called Stafford’s Widewater area home.
The winery now offers at least 15 different varieties of wines, some of which area seasonal their availabilities depend on weather conditions. In addition to the Mediterranean-inspired building where all of their wine is made, the winery is surrounded by a vineyard that produces grapes used in all of the wines made here.
Yasmine Deleon, of Stafford, was killed after the horse she was riding in a field off Mt. Olive Road was “spooked” and then ran into the street, where the horse and the girl was hit by an oncoming Kia Sorrento.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler the horse died at the scene when it was hit head-on by the Kia, driven by a 40-year-old woman.
Flames broke out at a two-story, single family home at 51 Scotland Circle, just off Austin Ridge Drive, at 8:16 p.m.
Two adults and two children were home at the time of the fire but made it out safely. Two of the occupants were treated for injuries that did not appear to be life threatening, said Stafford fire and rescue spokesman Mark Doyle.
