Stafford County firefighters put out a truck fire Friday night just before 8 p.m. behind the Giant Food store at the Doc Stone Shopping Plaza, off Route 610 in North Stafford. The cab of the parked rig was burned out. Smoke could be seen about a mile from the plaza toward Interstate 95.

No injuries were reported. A Giant manager came outside and asked whether the store should be evacuated. Emergency officials said no, and that the fire was under control. The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office blocked the street and kept people out of the area.


“Why are we giving double tax incentives?” Rock Hill Supervisor Crystal Vanuch asked Tuesday, the Fredericksburg Free Press reports.

More than 10 data centers are already proposed. The board comes back to it Oct. 27, when it will also talk about ending the practice of letting a data center on heavy-industry land without a board vote, and about dropping the nondisclosure agreements.


The Stafford Education Foundation, Amazon, and Stafford County Public Schools marked the first year of a teaching-grant partnership on Oct. 1, naming 24 projects. Sandra Osborn, the division’s chief communications officer, sent the announcement Thursday evening.

Teachers filed more than 90 applications, about $500,000 in proposed work. The release says the 24 projects should reach nearly 13,000 students. It does not say how much of Amazon’s three-year teaching-grant pool went to this first class. A Sept. 28 media alert said the partners would announce $100,000. The release instead cites the May figure: $360,000 for teaching grants over three years, inside a $560,000 Amazon investment that also includes $200,000 for food-access kiosks with the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank. The release’s food line reads “expand access to food access.”


Stafford has posted the Oct. 7 Board of Supervisors agenda.

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Stafford County voters will decide Nov. 3 whether the county may levy an additional local retail sales-and-use tax of up to 1 percent, to be used only for construction of new schools or major renovations of schools serving Stafford.

The official ballot question reads: “Shall Stafford County, Virginia levy a local retail sales tax not to exceed one percent (1%) to provide revenue that can only be used for construction of new schools or major renovation of schools serving Stafford County, with such tax ending (1) upon repayment of any bonds or loans issued for the projects, or (2) if the projects are not funded by bonds or loans, on June 30, 2046?”


Stafford calendar draft skips a Veterans Day holiday when Nov. 11 falls on a weekend

Stafford County’s draft school calendars would not give students and staff a Veterans Day holiday in 2028-29, when Nov. 11 falls on a weekend, Chief of Staff Dr. Amanda Schutz told the School Board on Sept. 8.


Stafford County Public Schools marked the 25th annual Bandy Art Exhibit this week, hanging student work through the Administrative Complex.

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Stafford County has named Erris Dunston deputy county administrator.

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Supervisor Crystal Vanuch said Virginia’s new church-housing law leaves Stafford with no way to make a congregation pay for the water lines, sewer, schools, and roads that new homes would use — and called it another unfunded mandate.

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