Officials broke ground for the new building Tuesday that will house Stafford’s commonwealth attorney’s office, next to the Stafford County Government Center on U.S. 1.
Once complete, the $2.9 million Chichester Building will be named after a family who for the past seven decades has provided two public servants to the county, according to a press release.
A deputy was called to a home on 10 Tanterra Drive in Stafford on Saturday. The owner of the car, a silver 2004 BMW sedan, said the car was locked and had been parked in her drive way just before 11 p.m. Friday night. At 8:20 a.m., the car was no longer in the driveway, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The following day ni the 1000 block of Ramoth Church Road in Stafford, a 1999 black Mazda pickup was stolen from Virginia Paving. The truck was parked at the business at 8 a.m. The owner came back at 11 a.m. to find the truck missing, said Kennedy.
Kyle Elliot Duval, 24, was killed when he lost control of his 2005 Acura on Kellogg Mill Road near Poplar Road. Police said Duval entered a right curve, swerved left and hit a tree.
Duval was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash but speed appears to be a factor, said Virginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler.
Dr. Karen Spillman, former Principal of Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, handed in her resignation to the Stafford County School Board on Tuesday night.
Spilllman came into the spotlight last week after she ordered a suspension for 14-year-old Bryan Thompson – a student at Colonial Forge who donned a banana costume and ran down the football field during halftime Sept. 16. After threatening to suspend Thompson for an entire year, the student was reinstated in his school after serving half of his 10 day suspension, and an apology was issued by the county school superintended after Spillman disciplined students who wore t-shirts that stated “free Banana Man” following Thompson’s suspension.
North Stafford, Va. — Landslide victims will not get their meeting with the developer of their property.
Richard Wolf with George H. Rucker Realty Corp., the developer of the Austin Ridge subdivision in North Stafford, says county officials asked him to meet with them and two families whose homes are threatened by a landslide that developed Sept. 10.
Dale City, Va. — Children took to a fresh sheet of ice Saturday as the Prince William Ice Center welcomed their hockey teams back home.
With a certificate of occupancy fresh off the presses, hockey fanatics and new players alike broke in the new sheet of ice on the “NHL” side.
Woodbridge, Va. — More than 40 families remain without permanent housing following floods that ravaged the Holly Acres Mobile Home Park earlier this month.
Today, those families along with the Woodbridge Flood Victims Committee will hold a press conference to announce a benefit concert for the flood victims. That conference is scheduled at noon at the Woodbridge mobile home park where so many are still trying to put their lives back together, said Ricardo Juarez Nava with Mexicans Without Borders.
Stafford, Va. — Those who rallied in support of Banana Man last week were not wrong to do what they did.
In an effort to protest Colonial Forge High School Principal Dr. Karen Spillman’s decision to suspend 14-year-old Bryan Thompson after he ran down the football field during halftime wearing a banana suit Sept. 16, students wore “free Banana Man” t-shirts in light of the incident. School officials stopped students from wearing the shirts.
Emergency crews are on the scene but the break leaves behind major road damage, according to reports.
Drivers are asked to steer clear of the area.
Stafford, Va. – Residents of two homes now condemned after a landslide say Stafford County officials are dragging their feet when it comes to arranging a meeting between homeowners and property developers.
According to the two homeowners affected by the Sept. 10 landslide in Stafford’s Austin Ridge neighborhood, this is the third time land behind the homes has failed. After a prior failure, a retaining wall was build behind the homes by the property developer, said Stafford Board of Supervisors Chairman Mark Dudenhefer.
