Summer heat is just around the corner, and with that normally comes summer swim season and cooling off by your favorite community pool.
This year, however, the coronavirus pandemic is changing everything.
Across the world, healthcare professionals are at the front lines battling the coronavirus pandemic. In the local Rappahannock health district, things are no different.
At a virtual community town hall on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Mary Washington Healthcare leaders provided updates with how they are addressing the pandemic.
Surrounded by Marvel action figures and posters on the bedroom wall behind him, all while sitting in the comfort of his own home, Del. Josh Cole (D-28, Fredericksburg, Stafford) hosted a virtual town hall Wednesday evening with Stafford County Schools Superintendent Scott Kizner and Fredericksburg City Public Schools Superintendent Marceline Catlett.
Both superintendents answered questions from the public about each school systems’ plan to continue educating its students from home after the coronavirus closed school buildings statewide until at least June 10.
Go to Fxbg, Stafford school superintendents talk online learning amid coronavirus outbreak
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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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Debra Howe, a former NOVA student who has gone on to a successful career in healthcare, is giving back to the school by donating $1 million to her existing endowed scholarship fund for NOVA nursing students.
According to a press release, the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation (NOVA Foundation) is proud to announce an exceptional gift of $1 million from donor Debra Coffman Howe of Palm Beach, Florida.
While many Virginia residents are staying at home doing their part to fight coronavirus, crews will continue their work to improve area roads.
The Virginia Department of Transportation says drivers should these will be the traffic hot spots in our area this week.
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Prince William County Service Authority | Raw sewage spilled into the Occoquan River on Friday.
@PWCSA experienced a sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) near its Occoquan Sewage Pump Station in Woodbridge this afternoon. For more details on the SSO, please click the link below.https://t.co/CS4zfjvwUV pic.twitter.com/w8P5HEpfwq
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A second person in the Fredericksburg region has died after contracting the coronavirus.
The patient was in his 50s, according to the Rappahannock Area Health District.
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