The ACTS Food Pantry no longer has to store perishable food outdoors.
The Dumfries charity was awarded a $10,000 grant from BJ’s Wholesale Club for the purchase of a new walk-in refrigerator and freezer last month.
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If you’re thinking of going to the landfill in Stafford County on Monday, think again. It will be closed, as will the county’s administrative offices, departments and facilities, according to a press release from Stafford officials.
Stafford County courts will also be closed Monday.
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Amanda Howland and Elliott Winstel visited a roadside fireworks stand in Stafford County late last month. They asked the stand attendant, who set up shop at the corner of Va. 610 and Shelton Shop Road in North Stafford, if they had mortars.
Mortars, often used by professional pyrotechnic companies hired to produce large fireworks displays, are illegal in Virginia.
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It’s hard to believe it is Independence Day weekend. We have some ideas for you of things to do this weekend.
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UPDATE: It appears no one was injured in a tractor trailer crash that closed a portion of U.S. 17 in Stafford County on Thursday morning.
The truck crashed near the Fauquier County line about 9:30 a.m., according to police.
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A 21-year-man was killed Saturday night in Stafford County.
Ian Cummings died after he pulled his 2008 Nissan Maxima onto Interstate 95 from a median and sideswiped a tractor trailer, at 10:20 p.m.
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*Video from a 2008 press conference held after two people drowned while swimming in the Rappahannock River. Following their deaths, Stafford officials erected signs in both English and Spanish warning river goers of the dangers the Rappahannock poses.
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You normally don’t see too many large, bronze crucifixes along the roadside.
But one sits on U.S. 1 in Stafford County. It marks the first time in Virginia that all religions were tolerated and allowed to live in the same region of the commonwealth.
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At 7-years-old, Lacee says she really liked the bunnies at the petting zoo at the Occoquan River Festival on Saturday. She picked them over the ducks, ponies and goats that also filled the pens at the temporary zoo erected on Mill Street, the town’s main drag.
“I really like them because they are so soft. I think a pet goat would be too much trouble and I don’t think there is a cage big enough for the goats,” said Lacee.
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Fredericksburg line train 309, coming from Fredericksburg to Washington’s Union Station, was late making it back to pickup passengers for its 5:15 p.m. departure from the Washington rail hub.
After completing it’s midday run as train 301, which left Union Station at 12:55 p.m., the train encountered problems on its return trip south of Franconia, said VRE spokeswoman April Maguigad.