News

Anne E. Moncure Elementary School has been sitting empty since last summer.

A new Moncure Elementary School opened about a mile from the original site, at the corner of Garrisonville Road and Doc Stone roads.


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Business

The option for millions of dollars in tax breaks for the owners of a once prosperous shopping center in North Stafford is dead.

The Stafford Board of Supervisor voted unanimously to terminate its contract with Mosaic Realty Partners, the owners of the Aquia Town Center, they say because agreements the Maryland-based firm made to clean up the center weren’t honored.


Originals

The effort to bring gambling to Dumfries is dead in the water.

The Town Council voted 4-3 to deny a conditional use permit that would have allowed an 18,000 square-foot Rosie’s Gaming Emporium, an off-track pari-mutuel betting parlor, in the Triangle Shopping Center at the corner of Route 1 and Graham Park Road.