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The Winchester Street parking garage in downtown Fredericksburg is now open to the public.

According to a press release from the City, the new parking garage on Winchester Street in Downtown Fredericksburg in now available for parking. Fredericksburg has for the past several years been leasing the Barton Street lot located at the corner of Barton and William streets while the nearby garage was planned and built.


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Stafford County is the largest jurisdiction in the Central Rappahannock Regional Library System.

That means that at $5.4 million, the county — and its taxpayers – pay the most into the system that spans four counties, one city, with 10 library branches. But just because it pays more doesn’t mean it sways more.


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A woman stopped a man from walking out of a McDonald’s with an undisclosed amount of cash on Saturday, November 7.

Dean Bell was had just ordered a fries and a Coke and was standing at the counter waiting to get his food when he saw a man walked up to the register and stick his hand in the till.


Obituaries

Ervin S. Whitaker, age 80, of Dumfries, Virginia, passed away on November 7, 2020. Ervin is predeceased by his beloved wife of 28 years, Mary E. Whitaker; his parents Heggie and Darrene Whitaker; and his siblings Vivian Mitchell, Runy Whitaker, Ann Anderson, Edward Whitaker, and Venessa McCorkle. He leaves behind

to cherish his memories his daughters Shelby (Jim) Stortecky and Terri (Mark) Hornsby; his grandchildren Nicholas Decowski, Jennifer (Kyle) Beach, Shawn (Kasondra) Decowski, and Joshua (Stacey) Hornsby; his great-grandchildren Trevor Decowski, Lily Beach, Winter Decowski, and Easton Decowski; and his siblings Van Inglett, Velma Sager, DIllie (Kenneth) Hollimon, and Wayne (Lynn) Whitaker.


Obituaries

Denise Michelle Bonner Liss, 72, beloved mother, sister and wife, died at the Capital Caring Health Halquist Center, in Arlington, Virginia, on November 6, 2020.

She was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia and grew up in Brookhaven, PA, the second oldest of eight girls by Eleanor Strootman Bonner and Bernard H. Bonner.  She graduated in 1966 from Notre Dame High School in Moyland, PA, married David G. Liss of Folsom, PA on August 22, 1970, and then settled in Ridley Park, where they began raising the first four of their children.  Her husband’s career relocated them in 1979 to the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., where she had her fifth child and lived the remainder of her life.