Tomorrow, April 18, 2023, is decision day for the Stafford County Board of Supervisors.
Elected leaders on the board will vote to approve the county governments’ fiscal year 2024 budget and the Real Estate tax rate used to fund the $947 million spending plan. Supervisors proposed 38% percent tax hike on residents, the largest in state history.
Fredericksburg Regional Transit’s Rebranding Event for FXBGO! will be held on Tuesday, April 18, at 11:30 a.m.
The buses have been known as “FRED Transit.” A rebranding event will be held at Central Station, 1400 Emancipation Highway, Fredericksburg (Route 1).
On April 16, 2023, Stafford Sheriff’s animal control deputies were called for a report of two butterballs in the street.
On April 16th Deputy A.C. Wolford responded to Olde Forge subdivision for a livestock in the roadway complaint. He arrived to find these two turkeys strutting through the area. We would hate for Butterball and the Gizzard of Oz to go to “waist.” The owner can contact Animal Control to claim their feathered friends (or we will hold them until the middle of November). Don’t we have the “baste” Animal Control Officers?
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the Major League Baseball color line.
Win Germanna Community College – Fredericksburg Nationals Scholarships by entering the college’s annual Jackie Robinson Essay Contest open to juniors and seniors at high schools in Germanna’s service region (Fredericksburg City, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Culpeper, Orange, King George, Madison, and Caroline counties).
Student members of the Stafford Middle School LEOs stuffed more than 400 eggs for an egg hunt held at the Thurman Brisbane Center, a homeless shelter in Fredericksburg, on Saturday, April 8, 2023.
The Aquia Evening Lions Club provided the candy and sponsored the club.
Local commuters who use OmniRide buses to get to Washington, D.C., the Pentagon and Tysons Corner will see their fares rise from $6.90 to $9 each way on July 1, as part of an effort to raise more revenue for the bus system, which is pressed by lower commuter ridership and rising costs. (more…)
Uriah Kiser, Potomac Local News publisher, here.
The Manassas Park Community Center announced Tuesday, April 4, 2023, that the floor in its banquet hall is resurfaced.
The project officially started on Monday, April 3, 2023, and will be completed by Thursday, April 13, 2023. The process took 10 days.
Fire crews were called to the scene at 9 a.m. to find shooting front and side of the house.
The American Red Cross is assisting the victims.
Cat Johnson, a Stafford tattoo model, artist, and owner of Dark Horse Tattoos, at 395 Garrisonville Road, has competed for weeks to win Inked Magazine Covergirl 2023, along with 102,000 other tattooed models scattered across the country and worldwide.
Johnson, whose stage name is Cat Irezumi, has been in first during the previous six rounds and placed second in the semifinals.
