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Stafford County drivers received more than 1,000 warnings between Aug. 11 and 14 for exceeding school-zone speed limits by 10 mph or more near three schools, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The warnings went to motorists near Stafford Middle School, Colonial Forge High School, and Edward E. Drew Middle School. The cameras are part of a new automated speed enforcement program intended to encourage slower driving and reduce crashes around schools, not primarily to generate citations, according to the Sheriff’s Office under Sheriff David P. Decatur.
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A staff-only trip to The Rose Gaming Resort on school buses has put Stafford County Public Schools on the defensive, with the division insisting that no taxpayer dollars were spent, while a supervisor argues that the outing reveals misplaced priorities.
The August 3, 2026 outing has drawn scrutiny for its optics and limited transparency at a time of rising real estate taxes and debate over a potential new local sales tax for school projects.
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UPDATED Aug. 20, 2026 — Dominion Energy has confirmed it is splitting its proposed North Anna to Bristers high-voltage transmission line into two separate projects and delaying the portion that runs through Stafford County until fall 2027.
The utility’s response comes after a Stafford citizen group, Towering Concerns, claimed in a recent email that Dominion delayed the project and changed course because of resident feedback.
Three people were taken to a hospital with minor illnesses Saturday after a pepper ball was discharged inside a Wawa convenience store in Stafford County.
Stafford County Fire and Rescue crews responded around 5 p.m. to a hazardous materials call at the Wawa on Warrenton Road at Litchfield Boulevard. Firefighters isolated the area while investigating. The source was identified as a pepper ball, a self-defense tool that fires a projectile filled with a powdered chemical irritant, similar to pepper spray, and can be launched up to 150 feet.
The Fredericksburg Free Press published an exclusive this weekend about hundreds of people who spent time under ICE custody at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford County before being deported. The numbers are real. The data comes from ICE records. And the story still managed to leave out the most basic fact.
These individuals were held because they were in the country illegally.
A ribbon-cutting event will be held Monday, August 31, at 3:30 p.m. to mark the completion of the Staffordboro Boulevard Sidewalk Project at the entrance of the Park and Ride lot near the Route 610 intersection, Stafford County reported. The $2.1 million project built approximately 1,200 linear feet of sidewalk between the Juggins Road Connector and Pike Place, along with new crosswalks at road crossings.
The work, finished on schedule this spring with paving completed this summer, is the first of four locally administered road projects under Stafford County’s $70 million investment to improve roads, safety, accessibility and congestion. The new sidewalk connects several communities to existing paths and park-and-ride lots, with ADA-accessible ramps and detectable warning surfaces to better serve pedestrians.
Automated speed enforcement cameras are now active in select Stafford County school zones as students return for the first full day of the 2026-27 school year on Wednesday, August 12.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office, working with BlueLine Solutions, has installed cameras at six schools: Edward E. Drew Middle School, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford Middle School, Stafford Elementary School, North Stafford High School, and Brooke Point High School.