A county sheriff’s deputy at 2:50 p.m. Dec. 27 tried to stop a driver on Centreport Parkway.
The driver of the car he was speeding, ignored the deputy, and then got onto the highway and sped off in the northbound direction.
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When a volcano erupted in Indonesia last fall, three area churches and the wife of local state delegate were called to action in December.
Ruth M. Anderson, married to Va. Del. Richard Anderson, R-51 (Lake Ridge, Woodbridge), traveled to Indonesia during mid-December after organizing a team that assisted in aiding the more than 10,000 people displaced from their homes after the Mt. Merapi volcano erupted Oct. 26.
But the New Year means crews and equipment will soon be working again.
Here’s some info you need to get around two of the major road projects happening right now in the Potomac Communities:
The commuter railroad will resume full service Monday Jan. 3, 2011.
Today, VRE operated trains only designated on the schedule as S.
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Editor’s note: The shootings at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and other military facilities in the region brought national media attention to the Potomac Communities in 2010.
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Stafford, Va. –– Residents in Stafford can no longer monitor the county’s emergency radio frequencies.
Dumfries, Va. –– PotomacLocal.com has obtained exclusive photos of a car crash that took the lives of three Stafford County men Christmas morning.
But the technology comes as customers in other parts of the region are seeing upgrades to even faster portions of the company’s cell phone data network.
Big Red announced Monday that two new cell sites have been constructed in the Berea section of the county, expanding Verizon’s service along the U.S. 17 corridor in south Stafford. (more…)
Stafford, Va. – Have you met Stafford County Public Schools new superintendent yet?