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A student representative sits on the Stafford County School Board for the first time.

During the school board meeting on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, the School Board voted unanimously to appoint its first-ever Student Representatives to the Stafford County School Board. Katherine Buckman, a junior at Mountain View High School, will serve as the primary student representative. In contrast, Miss Maraki Solomon, a Brooke Point High School junior, will serve as the alternate student representative. Both students will serve one-year terms.

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OneLife Ribbon Cutting

Onelife Fitness held its Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the grand opening of a 7,000-square-foot expansion at the Stafford location, 315 Garrisonville Road.

The expansion included a new Saltwater Pool, Whirlpool, and an expanded turf functional training area with Explosive Performance athlete training. According to the company, the firm invested $1 million into the North Stafford location.

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin singled out a Germanna Community College nursing graduate when he spoke during his State of the Commonwealth speech on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, about the critical need to boost the number of nurses and other healthcare professionals trained to fill openings in Virginia.

She is Kaitlyn Niesent, a Stafford County resident who graduated from Germanna last spring. The governor called nurses "Virginia's quiet heroes." "Everyone should be well aware of the fact that we have a serious shortage of nurses," Youngkin said. "Virginia hospitals have identified a shortage of more than 4,000 nurses at their facilities and vacancy rates are estimated as high as 40% across healthcare. We must accelerate the education and licensing of thousands of nurses." "The budget I introduced in December includes $35 million for the Earn to Learn accelerator, a program designed to get more nurses from the classroom to the front line faster. Kaitlyn Niesent is a nurse from Stafford County and she's here with us in the gallery this afternoon," She stood to a brief standing ovation. "Kaitlyn was one of the earliest enrollees in Germanna Community College's Earn to Learn program... She's a registered nurse at Mary Washington Hospital's intensive care unit. Kaitlyn, thank you for being one of Virginia's quiet heroes. And now friends, let's get Kaitlyn some reinforcements." Mary Washington Healthcare and Germanna began a partnership during the pandemic called "Earn While You Learn," which helped address the nursing shortage then. It allowed nursing students at Germanna to be paid as nursing assistants at Mary Washington Hospital as they worked with trained nurses to get more clinical experience. Germanna has committed to doubling its number of nursing and related graduates over the next three years in response to this critical shortage. GCC has also committed to serving community health needs by featuring a second Robert C. O'Neill community wellness center in the new Stafford facility. The other one will be in a new Locust Grove facility. Within the Germanna service area, Nursing and Allied Health labor shortages match the rest of the nation at 18 to 25 percent, according to Germanna's Bruce Davis, special assistant to the president for institutional advancement. He also said that the area nursing shortage is expected to become more severe when a 450,000-square-foot Veterans Administration Clinic opens in Spotsylvania in late 2023 or early 2024. Youngkin delivered his address to state officials and members of the politically-divided General Assembly, who gathered in Richmond Wednesday to convene the 2023 legislative session. The governor highlighted actions taken over the past year, noting moves to eliminate the grocery sales tax at the state level and increase teacher pay, while identifying "challenges" he believes the commonwealth continues to face.

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A Stafford County 911 operator is credited for helping to deliver a baby over the phone.

At 2:26 a.m. today, Thursday, January 12, 2022, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office said the child's mother went into labor at her North Stafford home. The child's father was also home, realized he didn't have enough time to drive the mother to a hospital and dialed 911.

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For the sixth year, Atlantic Builders has completed a home whose proceeds have been donated to charitable organizations throughout the Fredericksburg region. These "Give Back Homes" are possible with the cooperation of Atlantic's trade partners and suppliers who contribute materials and labor at a reduction in cost or in many instances for free.

This year's Give Back Home was built in the Kellogg Mill, a community of single-family homes, located in Stafford County.

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Phase I of the new $16.7 million Prince William County Animal Shelter, at 14807 Bristow Road, opened in late November 2021. [Photo: Uriah Kiser/Potomac Local News]
Updated 5 p.m. Friday, January 13, 2023 -- A Prince William County family is mourning the loss of a beloved family dog nearly two weeks after returning home from an unplanned visit to the county animal shelter.

On December 18, the children of the Linden family let out Samus, an 11 year-old, female German Shepherd, and forgot to put on the electric fence collar. The family noticed she had gone missing and assumed she would return home.

That night, a bystander found Samus and shortly she was brought over to the Prince William County Animal Shelter. The shelter staff kept Samus overnight, and in the morning called the family after scanning for a microchip. On the afternoon of December 19, she was picked up and brought home.

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Updated -- Volunteer Prince William received some help from a generous donor who helped store toys for individuals and families in need for its Un-Trim-a-Tree charity gift drive. 

In 2022, the non-profit vowed to help give more than 3,700 children toys. Volunteer Prince William decided to give toys to the children, including some 1,520 children that would not have otherwise received a gift through another charitable organization.

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Dillard/Gullickson/VanderWijst

The Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce announced its 2023 Chairman of the Board, Kevin Dillard.

Kevin Dillard is the President, CEO, and Founding Partner of LifeCare Medical Transports, Inc.  In this role, Kevin oversees daily operations, sets yearly goals and objectives, and builds community relationships with individuals and businesses.

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Manassas Park Economic Development Director A. LaMar Hoy

Updated 5 p.m. -- A decision on who will build its new anchor movie theater in Manassas Park could come by spring.

The city's Economic Development Director A. LaMar Hoy, said on Wednesday, January 11, the city is considering multiple options when comes to building a space for a new movie theater in the city's burgeoning downtown area, Park Central.

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