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Yes, Virginia, Dumfries will hold a Christmas Parade this year.

The event will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 11. A departure from the past, the parade will flow in reverse, beginning at Triangle Shopping Center (home of Rosie’s Gaming Emporium), marching about a mile up Main Street to Town Hall, at 17739 Main Street.

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The Stafford Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider creating a stormwater management fund to improve infrastructure.

The county’s Stormwater Infrastructure Funding and Implementation Committee developed a newly-proposed grant program. Approved by the County Board of Supervisors, leaders asked the committee to review long-running, and emerging stormwater infrastructure needs in the county’s residential communities.

A portion of Harrell Road is open again after road crews repaired the street’s surface.

One of the steel grates that makes up a drain leading to a ditch broke this morning at about 8 o’clock. It took three hours to repair the road on the surface and reopen the street to traffic, said Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Darragh Frye.