DUMFRIES — Police are investigating an attempted break-in at Croppers Towing and Tires in Dumfries.
Police say officers were called at 9:11 p.m to the business at 17735 Farley Blvd in Dumfries (22026) to investigate a burglary-in-progress. The business owner reported to police that he was working at the location after hours when a noise was heard coming from the rear garage door.
DUMFRIES — The first annual Dumfries Mayor’s Ball was a success.
The event hosted by Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood supported education, and raised a total of $40,000 in college scholarship funds for area students pursuing business administration or information technology degrees from IGLOBAL University in Vienna, or a degree in the hospitality management, business administration, healthcare administration, or cybersecurity from any Stratford University campus in Virginia.
DUMFRIES — With her daughter in a passenger seat about to give birth, Jena Smith drove her truck the wrong way up Route 1.
She had one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cell phone. She was on the phone with Prince William County’s 911 center, where a dispatcher told her to do anything she could to get around the stalled traffic.
DUMFRIES — Stafford County’s newest resident was born on the floor of a fire station in Dumfries.
Kasey Lynnett Smith, 28, went into labor on Thursday, April 18. She was in a car with her mother, who was driving her to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge to deliver the child. Senatra, she said, is “where my doctors are.”
Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke made a campaign stop at El Paso Mexican Grill in Dumfries Wednesday, where he talked to a group of Democratic activists and about 100 diners on issues ranging from racism and Social Security to reversing President Trump’s ban on transgender troops.
FREDERICKSBURG — Democratic Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke will make stops in Dumfries and Fredericksburg on Wednesday on a tour through Virginia.
His stops will be at two restaurants: Pimenta Jamaican restaurant in Fredericksburg, and El Paso Mexican Grill just outside of Dumfries.
DUMFRIES — Springtime means street paving in Dumfries.
Every spring the Dumfries Public Works Department begins its annual paving of streets throughout the town.
Malachi, our 12-year-old student reporter, met with Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood at town hall.
He got a lesson in small-town politics and heard from a long-time public servant whose been working to make Virginia’s oldest, continuously-chartered town more than a dot on a map.
DUMFRIES – (Press Release) Dumfries leaders Clyde and Gwen Washington will be among the honorees at the 2019 Mayor’s Choice Awards, part of the Dumfries Inaugural Mayor’s Ball on Saturday, April 13.
Clyde and Gwen have dedicated their entire lives to public service, with Clyde serving on the Town Council of Dumfries for 28 years and Gwen for 6 years. Gwen’s dad, John Wilmer Porter, also served on the Town Council and was the first African-American official elected post-Civil War Reconstruction in Virginia. Gwen’s mother, Mary G. Porter, also lived a life of public service as a Prince William County teacher and was known in the county as one of the “Courageous Four” who helped to integrate the schools.
DUMFRIES — (Press release) Dumfries Town Council, Town Manager, Keith Rogers Jr., presented the Proposed Fiscal Plan for FY 2020 and the Capital Improvement Plan for FY 2020 – 2024 Capital Improvement Plan.
This budget includes enhancements in four focus areas, public safety; economic vitality; infrastructure and sustainability; and, well-managed government. These enhancements were funded without raising taxes.
