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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors had a budget work session on April 28 to hammer down a close-to-final draft of the Fiscal Year 2021 budget.

Cuts are key in the budget with the equalized .97-cent tax Real Estate rate that the Board of Supervisors approved last week. It’s an equalized rate that, essentially, keeps tax bills flat, so residents won’t pay more in Real Estate taxes than they did in 2020.


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As she stood on the front porch of her Fredericksburg home, Mayor Mary Kathrine Greenlaw delivered some grim news earlier this month in a video posted to the city’s YouTube page as the city battles the financial strain of the coronavirus pandemic.

Greenlaw announced that the city would be furloughing roughly 41 city employees effective May 2. Twenty-eight of whom are currently listed as part-time employees, while 13 full-time employees will, unfortunately, be furloughed as well.


Event

Join me during this National Craft Open Studios weekend, a celebration of Amrican craft organized by the American Craft Council (ACC). Come visit my studio July 18-19th, 11am-5pm at 10449 Metropolitan Ave, Kensington, MD. Please drop in, see how my work is created, tour my studio and try your hand at hammering some metal.


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At least four people are now suspected in a series of armed robberies at 7-Eleven stores near Manassas and in Woodbridge.

Most recently, two men were arrested on April 17, 2020, and were both charged in connection to the robberies while they were already in a Fairfax County jail.


Traffic

There’s been a sharp decrease in the number of drivers on the roads as a result of the coronavirus pandemic keeping everyone home.

A major contributor to this traffic pattern has been the number of people who are now working from home to avoid the spread of the virus. While there are many in the workforce who have been deemed essential and still commute, many more are sitting at home, in front of their laptops, attending virtual meetings through Zoom, and other online communication platforms.


Obituaries

Born in New York City, Oct. 12,1935 and passed living most recently in Woodbridge, VA. Don was married for 51 years to his beloved, predeceased wife, Marge who he met in 1962 while he was serving in the U. S. Army at Ft. Bragg, N.C. He was a graduate of Rutgers University in 1957 where […]