Updated 11:30 a.m Jan. 14 | In the post below, we told you we would follow up with Stafford County officials on a request from the Board of Supervisors to the Commonwealth Transportation Board in Richmond, or a request to add a temporary signal light at Route 1 and Truslow Road.
Statement from the county | At this time, we have not heard any response from the Secretary of Transportation, to which we sent the letter.
Carmello’s Restaurant ended its fight with the city today.
Owner Alice Pires says she began the process of removing the wrought-iron fixtures on the windows of her Downtown Manassas eatery that caused such a stir with the city’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) last summer, and later in the year with the city council.
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Press release | More than 600 Virginians died from opioid overdoses in the first half of 2019. In the past few years, drug overdoses took more lives than car crashes or guns. In an effort to stem the rising tide of deaths, Rappahannock Area Community Services Board now offers REVIVE! training.
REVIVE! helps individuals learn how to recognize an opioid overdose and how to use naloxone to reverse an overdose. Anyone who has a friend or relative using opioids should attend the training. Each attendee will receive a free REVIVE! kit provided by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The kit includes the supplies needed to administer naloxone. The opioid antidote can be purchased at pharmacies without a prescription in Virginia.
Members of the Manassas Parks and Recreation Committee will soon fan out into public parks with a mission.
The 11-member board plans to pick up clipboards, and armed with a checklist will perform an inventory of facilities at the city’s 17 public parks. They’ll be checking for litter, the quality and condition of park benches, playground equipment, landscaping, picnic tables, and making sure park signs are prominently posted and easy to read.
Press release | All Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) full-service customer service centers will be closed on the following days for state holidays and observances:
The holiday schedule for Thanksgiving and Christmas will be announced at a later date.
Spotsylvania Town Center is hosting its first-ever, “Small Shop Showdown.”
To encourage creativity and entrepreneurialism, the competition invites new or existing small businesses to submit their ideas for a chance to win a free six-month lease for retail space inside the mall. Applicants can enter the competition through January 20 and the winner will be announced February 3.
Virginia lawmakers have voted to ban firearms at the state Capitol, the first in what’s expected to be many contentious gun votes in coming weeks.
Press release | The Friends of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library will hold a Winter Book Sale January 31-February 4 at the Friends of the Library Center and Bookshop. The “Friends” are opening their warehouse for shoppers to take advantage of bargains and to support the library.
Friday, January 31, 5:30-7:30, will be for members of the Friends of the Library only. Customers who are not already a member can join at the door, or ahead of time at crrlfriends.org/join-us.
Press release | Motorists can expect brief delays tomorrow on the Route 17 southbound on-ramp to I-95 southbound at Exit 133 (Falmouth) in Stafford County due to mobile pothole repairs.
Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 10, motorists can expect brief, intermittent traffic stops of 5-10 minutes at the ramp. All repair work will be completed by noon.
