The Fredericksburg City Council deferred a vote on a plan to crack down on its downtown noise.

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For those thinking of getting part-time work as a substitute teacher, now may be the best time to apply.

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In 2012, Potomac Shores’ developers held a series of “get to know us” meetings in Woodbridge.

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Now cross-crossing Virginia campaigning to be its next governor, Pete Snyder doesn’t often get to eat breakfast with his child.

Recently, however, he did. After they ate, his daughter Bee, 6, showed him something special hanging on her bulletin board. There, above her desk, Bee had pinned three of her father’s campaign bumper stickers to her bulletin board. It was a proud dad moment for the candidate.


Manassas Park is working on rebranding itself as a destination.

It’s part of the city’s new downtown development, where it is building a town center with a plan to create a signage and branding concept. The audience it hopes to reach: the rest of Northern Virginia.


U.S. flags won’t be flying on utility poles in Manassas neighborhoods, after all.

City leaders on Saturday quashed a pilot program that would have expanded the city’s flag ordinance to include residential neighborhood streets. For the first time, Old Glory would be allowed to hang on city-owned utility poles in those neighborhoods, the same as it does downtown.


The Manassas City Council Equity and Inclusion Task Force will head out into the community series of listening sessions beginning March 1.

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Stafford County is considering giving pay raises to teachers and staff.

The county School Board met Tuesday and heard a presentation from Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner’s the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. If approved by the School Board, the schools’ budget will increase 5.25% by $16.9 million, bringing the total funding to $340 million.


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