The Stafford County School Board approved the purchase of 4,800 new Chromebooks for high school and elementary school students.
Over the last several years, laptops, especially Chromebooks, had become a staple of Stafford County schools as a learning tool for students and were particularly necessary during the Coronavirus pandemic when many students were forced to resort to remote learning after local public schools were shut down for the majority of students.
The board approved the bulk purchase of the Chromebooks at $1.9 million. The laptops are to be purchased using funding from two different sources available to the government school division.
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After years of widening roads to accommodate increasing traffic, officials are looking more and more toward "road diets" that aim to reduce the width of roads and subsequently slow traffic, they said.
On Tuesday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors will hear a plan to take away two lanes of Graham Park Road in Dumfries. Today, the four-lane road links several residential neighborhoods to busy Route 1.
Graham Park Middle School, home to nearly 1,000 students, is located on the street. Additionally, county officials aim to build a new roundabout at Graham Park and Old Triangle roads.
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[Update 4:50 p.m.] The driver of the cargo van is identified as Logan Maiatico, 19, of Strasburg.
[Update 4 p.m.] All four lanes of Route 17 reopened at 2:30 p.m., the Virignia Department of Transportation reports.
One person is dead following a crash on Route 17 in Stafford County.
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Democrats on defense as their new House majority faces its first electoral test
Virginia Democrats are playing defense in nearly a dozen competitive House of Delegates districts this year as they defend their new majority against GOP challengers hoping to win back ground lost during Donald Trump’s presidency. [Virginia Mercury]
'Do your job': McAuliffe watches closely as messy Capitol Hill negotiations threaten Virginia race
There is possibly no Democrat outside of Washington, DC, who is more closely watching the chaotic negotiations playing out on Capitol Hill than Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe. [CNN]
Members of Leesburg Police Department threaten to quit over proposed vaccine mandate
Police officers in Leesburg, Virginia, spoke out during a town council meeting about what could happen if the coronavirus vaccine is mandated. [WTOP]
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The Stafford County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend an application for a conditional use permit that would create a child care center for the Embrey Mill Town Center.
Next, the Stafford County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on a public hearing for the child care center's application on October 19. The governing body must approve a permit for the center.
The application, made by Arlington-based North Stafford Associates L.C., which owns a 1.5-acre lot at the town center on which the daycare would be built, would see a 13,000 square foot building constructed for the child care center.
