Growing up in Mapledale in the 1990s, as I did, there were few places you could get to by walking.
In the neighborhood in Dale City, there was, and still is Giant Food grocery store, and there were two gas stations — a Mobile (now the site of a Sheetz) and an Amoco (now a BP station).
The United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 is demanding that food workers be designated as first responders, and a strict limit be placed on the number of customers allowed in grocery stores.
The move comes as 14 grocery store workers and three food processing plant employees were diagnosed with the new coronavirus. And there are more cases waiting to be confirmed; union authorities tell Potomac Local News.
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There are still no removal plans for the slave auction block located on the corner of William and Charles in Downtown Fredericksburg.
This auction block was the cause of widespread debate in the community, but in July of 2019, the City Council decided that the block would be relocated to the Fredericksburg Area Museum. The costs associated with moving the stone were anticipated to be $30,000.
Gov. Ralph Northam recently signed a bill that would define hemp extract, such as CBD, as food and usher in state regulations on these products.
Senate Bill 918, patroned by Sen. David Marsden, D-Fairfax, will help guide the budding industrial hemp industry in Virginia by regulating facility conditions and requirements for the production of hemp-derived products intended for human consumption.
A man thought he was going to sell his motorcycle to another man that he met on Craigslist.
That other man had other plans.
Temperatures will drop tonight into the low 30s, and that has prompted a freeze warning for the region, to include
A Freeze Warning is in effect tonight for some areas due to sub-freezing temperatures. Take steps now to protect sensitive plants from the cold. pic.twitter.com/JrBmYEe4eN
A total of 57 Facebook donors contributed $2,060 to watch Manassas City Councilman Ian Lovejoy give himself a haircut live on Facebook.
All proceeds went to Old Town Strong in support of the out of work restaurant bar and staff in Old Town Manassas.
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