Students in Stafford County middle and high schools may no longer be allowed to use cell phones in class for instructional purposes.
At the county’s June 9 school board meeting, the board discussed exhibits one and two of Regulation 2401, which would “eliminate the use of cell phones in the classroom for instructional purposes,” according to school board documentation.
School may be out of session, but the fourth round of student representatives to the Prince William County School Board have been announced.
Rising seniors Ben Kim of Stonewall Jackson High School and Caroline Silvera of C.D. Hylton Senior High School have been chosen to serve as co-student representatives to the school board. Rising senior Ashley Menjivar of Woodbridge High School was additionally chosen as an alternate student representative. These three students were chosen out of a list of twenty-one finalists.
A tree fell into a house in Stafford County this afternoon.
Fire and rescue crews were called to a home in the 2400 block of Mountain View Road at 2:07 p.m.
Stones at Government Island in Stafford County have been vandalized.
The Sheriff’s Office got reports of this incident on May 26 and are investigating, according to Major Shawn Kimmitz.
The Fredericksburg Expo and Conference Center has canceled their plans for a drive-in movie theater that was set to premiere today.
The drive-in was supposed to air movies from Thursday through Sunday, but all have been canceled for this weekend.
After hundreds of suggestions and multiple school board meetings, a name has finally been chosen for Prince William County’s 13th high school.
The school, which will be located at 13150 University Boulevard in Gainesville, has been named Gainesville High School. The naming was approved at the Prince William County School Board’s June 10 meeting, where the board also named the school’s library media center in honor of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon and its Student Services Center in honor of Lillian Orlich.
A week after Manassas City Police Chief Douglas Keen had told Manassas City Council that he was chased by 200 protestors during a riot on Sunday, May 31, he’s clarified his earlier statement.
“So I said chased, I own those words, I said ‘em. Retreated and moving back would be a better description. We were not chased down the street, being chased by a bully with rocks being thrown at us. We were pushed backwards and continued to move into Battery Heights,” Keen said during a meeting of the Manassas City Coucnil on Monday, June 8.
The Children’s Museum of Richmond announced it is permanently closing its Fredericksburg location at 1275 Jefferson Davis Highway.
The closure was described as a cost-cutting measure during the coronavirus pandemic.
Schools will be opening in the fall, at least in some capacity.
Gov. Ralph Northam announced at his June 9 briefing that the schools will be opening in phases that correlate to the phases of general reopening.
The Stafford sheriff’s office reports three cases of DUI in the past two days.
He was subsequently held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail on an unsecure bond.
