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Now we’re hearing from Novant Health UVA Medical Center in Prince William County, which is announcing its first baby of the New Year. A press release states:

Novant Health UVA Health System Haymarket Medical Center welcomes the new year with the announcement of its first baby of 2020. Liam Okechukwu was born Jan. 1 at the Women’s & Children’s Center at Haymarket Medical Center.


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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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Richard Owen Delap, 82, died Wednesday, December 25, 2019, peacefully at home with his family in Jacksonville, Florida.

He leaves his wife of 59 years, Frances Delap, children Sharon Delap, Carol Greer, Barbara Lewis and Chuck Delap as well as sister Susie Murray, grandchildren Jessica Lock, Eric Lock, Nathan Lewis and Joshua Lewis plus countless more family and friends.


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Hospitals in Fredericksburg and Stafford are telling us about the first new bundles of joy of the New Year. A hospital spokeswoman states:

Mary Washington Hospital [in Fredericksburg] had the first baby born in the Fredericksburg region. Baby girl Winter Wren was born at 4:32 a.m. on January 1 to parents Leah and Marcus of King George, was 7 pounds 5 ounces and 19 inches long.


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Those free fares riders on the very first OmniRide bus ever to serve Stafford County came to an end Tuesday.

Those buses are the Stafford-Washington route (Route 543) and the Stafford-Pentagon route (Route 942). Service on the new routes began Oct. 28, 2019, as part of an effort to get more people out of their cars and onto buses along the Interstate 95 and 395 corridor, just as the newly tolled E-ZPass Express Lanes on I-395 were opening.


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The Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol stopped for flowers and to fix the balloons at Dillingham Square on Monday before swooping down on the home of Joan Geringer, a Lake Ridge resident who is now the recipient of $2,500 a week for the rest of her life.

“This is amazing,” said Geringer, after she answered the door. It was a complete surprise. There were contractors at her house redoing her bathroom, so Joan couldn’t hesitate. “I can now pay you,” she said, joking with the construction crew, and they told her now she needs to do the kitchen too.