On May 26, the Fredericksburg City Council held a public hearing to discuss proposed revisions to their budget for the fiscal year 2021. 

The revised budget total is down 7.5% from the March 10 recommended budget, coming in at $95.7 million. This is also a 5.9% decrease compared to the 2020 fiscal year. 


The Stafford County School Board has unanimously approved a plan to provide compensation to secondary, or middle school teachers who teach over 150 students or 25 class periods a week. 

This compensation was amended into the Virginia Administrative Code last fiscal year, stating that if a secondary and/or middle school ‘classroom teacher teaches more than 150 students or 25 class periods per week, an appropriate contractual arrangement and compensation shall be provided.’


The City of Manassas will need to vote on the tax rate – again.

Mayor Hal Parrish II  on May 18 was asked to reconsider the tax vote after Councilwoman Theresa Coates Ellis voted yes on the second reading of the tax rate, despite the fact she voted no on May 11.


Manassas City Councilman Ian Lovejoy will lead a crowd barhopping through Downtown Manassas at midnight.

He’s hosting the event in honor of the first phase of reopenings of Northern Virginia beginning at midnight tonight, as restaurants in the city will be allowed to reopen with outdoor seating, at 50% capacity for the first time since being largely shuttered at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March.


Politicians and the Virginia Chamber of Commerce are pushing back on an order from Governor Ralph Northam’s latest executive order requiring everyone to wear masks. 

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A decrease in coronavirus related hospitalizations seems too good to be true without a vaccine, yet that where Virginia is trending.

The numbers of cases in Virginia were previously increasing daily by the hundreds and even thousands according to charts form the Virginia Department of Health. Now, case numbers are increasing only by double digits.


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