FREDERICKSBURG — Reclaim Video offers an experience that promises to take its customers back to the past — for free.
Last May, the neighborhood movie rental store opened its doors. One of the last of its kind, the video store’s walls are covered with VHS tapes, Laserdisc movies, and other popular formats from that past.
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STAFFORD – (Press Release) The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information from the public on a bicycle accident that occurred on March 28 in the area of Jefferson Davis Highway and Tracey Street.
On Thursday, March 28, 2019, at approximately 2:00 p.m., units with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office and Stafford County Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a pedestrian struck. Upon arrival, they learned a bicycle had been struck by a truck while traveling southbound on Jefferson Davis Highway in the area of the Hidden Valley 7-Eleven. The truck remained on scene and the 57-year-old male driver was identified.
STAFFORD – (Press release) River Road will be closed several days next week to accommodate work on Phase IV of the Belmont-Ferry Farm Trail.
Crews will be installing a pipe under the road to improve drainage of runoff near the entrance to Pratt Park. Visitors will still be able to access Pratt Park via River Road from Route 1. River Road will be closed to traffic on Tuesday – Thursday, April 2– 4, 2019, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
STAFFORD – (Press release) Route 218 (Caledon Road/White Oak Road) in Stafford and King George counties will be reduced to a single lane at midday over the next two weeks to allow crews to install a centerline rumble strip as a safety improvement.
Route 218 will be reduced to a single lane between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Monday, April 1 through Friday, April 5, and again on Monday, April 8 through Friday, April 12.
STAFFORD — Stafford County officials said Prince William County is the regional model for tax rates for data centers.
So, they adopted new tax rates to mirror them. And now they hope to eat Prince William County’s lunch.
STAFFORD — (Press release) Stafford County is moving ahead with the FY2020 Proposed Budget process with a public hearing on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 7 p.m.
To accommodate more participants, the location has been changed to the auditorium at Brooke Point High School, 1700 Courthouse Road in Stafford. The hearing is part of a series of meetings designed to move the Board of Supervisors forward to final adoption of the FY2020 Budget on April 16, 2019.
STAFFORD – (Press Release) Stafford Hospital physicians, leaders and clinicians are celebrating the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award, given to the Stafford Hospital Wound Healing Center of Woodbridge.
The Center has achieved patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent and a healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 30 median days to heal, for a minimum of two consecutive years. The Center was awarded this prestigious honor by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.
STAFFORD – (Press Release) Brooke Point High School Inspire Virginia student officers will host a Virginia Senior Rally on Tuesday, April 9, at 8 a.m. The group has organized a voter registration rally at BPHS to address the importance of registering to vote and participating in elections.
The goal of the group is to promote citizenship and engagement among the graduating class of 2019. Student leaders trained by Inspire Virginia representatives to register new voters will lead the effort.
WASHINGTON — The Wow Air counter at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, usually buzzing with travelers and employees, sat barren without a soul on Thursday, a stark symbol of the airline’s sudden closure.
The low-cost carrier, based in Iceland, confirmed Thursday in a statement and on its website that it had ended operations and cancelled all previously scheduled flights, leaving travelers stranded in Maryland, three other U.S. airports it serves, and abroad.
