Four adults and two children were displaced by a fire at their home.
Fire and rescue crews were called to a single-family home in the 16500 block of Reservoir Loop near Dumfries at 9:37 a.m. for a report of a structure fire. The neighborhood is located off Allen Dent Road.
By D.J. Jordan & Scott Martin
We join millions of people around the nation, and the world, in denouncing police brutality and injustice in America, and we grieve the senseless murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others.
Colonial Beach is calling all bird lovers to come and gaze from a social distance.
The town, located on the Potomac River just 32 miles from Downtown Fredericksburg, will host a virtual Osprey Festival. The birds return every year to this community on Virginia’s Northern Neck Peninsula.
The Stafford County School Board is looking to pass a new policy on employee conduct, including regulations for electronic communications with students.
Under this policy, employees are allowed to engage in electronic communication with students on school-approved platforms for “legitimate purposes connected to school programs or services,” the policy outlines.
Cuts are being made across the board to the Fredericksburg City budget due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The new $94 million budget is a decrease from the original $103.4 million that was set before the pandemic hit in March. The new budget is also lower than last year’s the $101 million operating budget.
The Unity Church, at 14747 Arizona Avenue in Woodbridge, hosted a surprise ceremony and homecoming parade to honor its high school seniors on Saturday, June 6.
Senior Pastor Dr. Nelson K. Williams and his wife, First Lady Lillian Williams, chose to host this event for their high school seniors because they were not able to have a traditional graduation ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic.
James Michael Phillips, age 56, passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C, after a courageous battle with bile duct cancer, exacerbated by primary sclerosing cholangitis. He was the loving husband of Sheila Lynn Phillips. They shared 23 years of marriage together.
James was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 17, 1963, to parents James Edmund Phillips and Dorothy Scacco Phillips. He grew up in nearby Johnston, Rhode Island, and later attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice. He then moved to Washington, D.C. where he began a lifelong career of public service in the federal government.
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Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney Amy Ashworth has weighed in on a meeting that has prompted a lawsuit against the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
In a letter sent to Potomac Local News today, Ashworth determined that no public business was conducted during a May 31 meeting of the Prince William County Police Citizens Advisory Board. The special meeting was called by committee chairman Cozy Bailey the morning after a riot engulfed the area of Sudley Road and Sudley Manor Drive, just five miles outside Manassas.
