News

First responders got a training course today in navigating the new diverging diamond interchange (DDI) in Stafford.

STAFFORD: Before the diverging diamond interchange opens on Courthouse Rd, we wanted to give firefighters and EMS personnel a chance to drive through and become familiar with navigating the new traffic pattern. Its set to open to the public on Sat., Dec. 7 @staffcofire pic.twitter.com/4inD3vOKCq


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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Tinesha Allen’s razor-thin margin of 18 votes over incumbent four-term Supervisor Jack Cavalier held firm during a daylong recount on Thursday at the Stafford County Courthouse. The Democrat will replace Republican when the new board convenes in January.

Stafford County Chief Judge Hon. Charles Sharp certified with the election results, along with help from Chief Judges Hon. Lisa Bondareff Kemler, of Alexandria Circuit Court, and Chief Judge Hon. William T. Newman, Jr., of the Arlington County Circuit Court.


In Loving Memory of

Mr. Paul Lawrence Lawrence Short who was born on April 29th, 1990 to Mr. Ralph Short and Mrs. Joyce Lynn Short at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.  Paul was educated at home “in the way that he should go” and at Fountain of Life Lutheran School (Tucson, AZ), Star of Bethlehem School (Triangle, VA), Calvary Christian School (Triangle, VA), graduating as Valedictorian, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA), then transferring to Strayer University (Northern VA locations) where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems. Paul traveled to El Salvador as a participant with a student mission ministry. He was baptized at First Mount Zion Baptist Church (Dumfries, VA.)  His final place of employment was at the Army-Air Force Exchange Service (Fort Belvoir, VA.) as a supervisor in the warehouse division.  Paul Lawrence was a very loving, caring, humble, and self-less young man who will be remembered as such.