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Go Dukes! Locals set to watch first-ever JMU bowl appearance

By Mike Salmon
The JMU mascot, the “Duke Dog,” excited everyone this year. [Photo by Heather Johnson]

This is the year for the James Madison University Dukes football team, and it all comes to fruition on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023, when JMU plays Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl in Texas.

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Politics

‘Thank you for your service:’ Outgoing Stafford treasurer, supervisor honored

By Paris Goodman
Left: Stafford County Treasurer Laura Rudy speaks after the Board of County Supervisors honored her for 16 years on the job. Right: Supervisors Crystal Vanuch and Pamela Yueung present outgoing George Washington District Supervisor Tom Coen with a certificate celebrating his five years on the Board of Supervisors. [Photo: Stafford County Government]

Two of Stafford County’s public servants, Laura Rudy and Thomas Coen, were honored by the Board of Supervisors amid their retirements on December 12.

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Prince William

Full steam ahead: VRE board approves Saturday service, fare increase; Challenges loom

By Steven Gorski
A Virginia Railway Express train pulls into the Fredericksburg train station. [Photo: Uriah Kiser/PLN]

In what Virginia Railway Express management called the first step in transforming the state’s only commuter railroad, the VRE Operations Board approved its Fiscal Year 2025 budget.

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Downtown destination: Manassas draws 383,000; Railway Festival, First Fridays remain popular

By Sarah Romero
Manassas Railway Festival

Historic Manassas, Inc. Director Kristen Kiefer highlighted some of its most successful 2023 events in her annual report to the city council.

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City task force focuses on reducing youth crime after 2 gun deaths in 2023

By Uriah Kiser

Fredericksburg leaders are focusing on reducing teen violence following the shooting deaths of two teenagers shot and killed in March and June 2023.

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Prince William

School board members hopeful for cooperation at induction ceremony

By Sarah Romero
Prince William County School Board Chairman At-large Dr. Babur Lateef swears in for a third term on December 14, 2023. [Photo: Sarah Romero]

New and returning Prince William County School Board Members took an oath of office at a ceremony held at the Kelly Leadership Center on Thursday, December 14, 2023.

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Prince William

NFL star ‘Lucky’ Whitehead Jr. headlines Parks Foundation fundraiser; touts new pump track

By Sarah Romero
Rodney Darnell "Lucky" Whitehead Jr. at the Prince William County Parks Foundation fundraiser on Dec. 11, 2023 [Photo: Sarah Romero]

NFL star Rodney Darnell “Lucky” Whitehead Jr. headlined the Prince William County Parks Foundation fundraiser for a Bicycle Pump Track on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, at Cedar Run Brewery.

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ICE wants to use county’s new indoor shooting range after leaders booted it from its jail

By Uriah Kiser

Prince William County leaders may not want federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement in its jail, but apparently, they’re OK with them in the county’s recently acquired firearms training center.

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Schools

Stafford adding at least 26 trailers for elementary schools, early childhood center

By Uriah Kiser
Trailers at Park Ridge Elementary School in North Stafford

A growing student population prompted the Stafford County School Board to add 34 new trailers for the 2024-25 school year.

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Business

Wawa to open in Dumfries

By Sarah Romero

Dumfries residents are getting a Wawa gas station.

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