A suspect who fled the scene of a car accident was later found reeking of alcohol while hiking along Cool Spring Road and was promptly taken to the Rappahannock Regional Jail.

The event occurred on June 5 at 10:51 p.m. when Deputy Houde responded to a car accident in the area of Kings Highway and the Blue and Gray Parkway, according to Major Shawn Kimmitz of Stafford County Sheriff’s Department.


Stafford County recently received $13 million in funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Securities (CARES) Act.

A list of documented expenditures and requests from agencies for a chunk of this money is currently being put together and will be presented to the Board by June 15, according to Deputy County Administrator Fred Pressley.


Marchers in Fredericksburg walked the path from the Dorothy Hart Community Center to Shiloh Baptist Church, commemorating the Walker Grant High School graduating class of 1950. 

The 27 graduates of the sole Fredericksburg high school that was open to African American students were supposed to have their graduation ceremony at the, then, Charles St. Community Center.


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