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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:

Last week, Prince William and Spotsylvania counties. On Tuesday, Stafford?

The county Board of Supervisors will take up the question of whether or not to become a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary (2A), where the right to bear arms as enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights is upheld. A public hearing will be held in the Board Chambers at 7 p.m. at 1300 Courthouse Road in Stafford.

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The city says the pending lawsuit has temporarily halted plans to move the auction block to the Fredericksburg Area Museum.

If the number absentee voters are the barometer, Stafford County is changing.

And now county leaders are looking at changing the county code to permit the relocation of the General Registrar’s office from the central government center to a new, yet-to-be-determined location. It’s where new residents register to vote and is where absentee ballots are cast.

As Stafford County’s population booms, elected leaders on the Board of Supervisors and School Board are trying to work together to accommodate a surge in the student population.

With tension between the two elected bodies, getting new schools built and operational seems to be going at a slower pace than what the school board would prefer.