The Fredericksburg Nationals on Thursday announced their coaches for the team’s inaugural season. A press release states:
The FredNats will be reunited with former Potomac Nationals Manager Tripp Keister, Hitting Coach Luis Ordaz, Athletic Trainer Don Neidig, and Strength and Conditioning Coach Shane Hill. The FredNats will be welcoming Justin Lordin his first year as their Pitching Coach.
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Richard “Dale” Sword was found dead in a house in Manassas on Thursday, November 14. According to Sgt. Gio Barahona from Manassas police, Sword was found in a vacant house in the 1000 block of Dumfries Road.
While the autopsy for the cause of death is still underway, according to Barahona, Sword, who was homeless, was exposed to record-breaking cold the night before he was found dead. Temperatures dropped to 19 degrees on November 13, according to National Weather Service records.
(Press Release) In observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Stafford County Government offices, departments, and facilities will be closed on the following days:
All park buildings will be closed on those days as well. However, all parks will be open.
Prince William police are searching for a man who held-up a cell phone store in Dumfries at gunpoint. A Prince William police press release states:
Armed Robbery – On December 17 at 6:39PM, officers responded to the Boost Mobile located at 18069 Triangle Shopping Plz. in Dumfries (22026) to investigate a robbery. A store employee reported to police that an unknown man entered the store and approached the employee.
The city’s annual Christmas parade was held on Saturday, December 7. City spokeswoman Patty Prince sent us an email with a list of the winners:
More than 2,000 people packed the Stafford County Government Center on Courthouse Road on Tuesday night.
The majority of them urged the county’s Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution declaring Stafford a county that would uphold a key freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights — the right to bear arms.
Manassas residents lined up to speak in favor of Carmello’s and Mozna, two restaurants of the same owner in Downtown Manassas that came under fire late last month for improvements it made to its building.
A petition with at least 300 signatures of city residents was presented to the city council on December 9. It urged leaders to reverse the council’s decision to require the restaurant to change the color of its brick facade on the front of the restaurant from a Mediterianian-style white to red brick, to match the other buildings in the downtown area.
Stafford County held a two-day training for artists who could use an education in the art of business.
The training was provided by the Clark Huling Fund for the Visual Arts, which is based in Albuquerque, N.M. and was founded to provide training for those in the fine arts entrepreneurship skills to sell their work and grow their businesses. A press release states:
Wolf Trap is the only National Park for the performing arts, and it plans three job fairs this winter for people seeking seasonal employment.
The park is located in Fairfax County, at 1551 Trap Road in Vienna, about a 10-minute drive from Tysons Corner Center mall. A press release states:
