The option for millions of dollars in tax breaks for the owners of a once prosperous shopping center in North Stafford is dead.

The Stafford Board of Supervisor voted unanimously to terminate its contract with Mosaic Realty Partners, the owners of the Aquia Town Center, they say because agreements the Maryland-based firm made to clean up the center weren’t honored.


Press release | Stafford County Public Schools (SCPS) are participating in African American History Month, recognized annually in February. North Stafford High School is hosting the SCPS signature celebration event, Black History is Everyone’s History, on Saturday, February 29, 2020.

The event, open to the public, aims to foster conversation and connection between local African American business owners, Greek organizations, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) representatives and SCPS families.


Things are changing in Fredericksburg as new development is popping up across the city.

Now, as city leaders envision what the city will look like in the future, they’ve updated the city’s building standards to ensure that owners of single-family homes in some of the city’s older neighborhoods like College Heights, Normandy Village near Fall Hill Avenue, and Mayfield, on the city’s south side, may renovate to keep up with the times.


Stafford sheriff’s office press release | Two suspects were arrested on Thursday by detectives with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit following a joint investigation with the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office into a report that a juvenile was sexually assaulted by two suspects in both counties.

On January 20, 2020, a 14-year-old juvenile filed a report with the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office that she had been sexually assaulted earlier that day. The juvenile advised that she had met two male subjects at the Chick-fil-A located at 25 Dunn Drive in Stafford. They exchanged Snapchat information and the juvenile provided the subjects with her home address in Fauquier County.


Updated Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 | Manassas police now tell us they’ve verified the legitimacy of the Virginia Youth Club of America.

Manassas police press release | On February 1, 2020, The Manassas Police Department was notified that individuals are going door to door asking for donations on behalf of the “Virginia Youth Club of America.”


Manassas Park is ready to take the next steps to leave the Prince William Public Library System and open its own library.

To do so, city leaders want to hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 18 on a plan to hire California-based firm Library Systems & Services to operate a new library that would be located at 9701 Manassas Drive. That’s the site of the old General’s Ridge Golf Course that was shuttered last year.


We’re set to find out who won the “Small Shop Showdown” on Monday.

The contests sought entries from entrepreneurs who had big ideas for businesses but needed a little help, and some retail space inside Spoyslvania Towne Center, to get them going.


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