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A new Chick-fil-A restaurant in North Stafford will be one of the chain’s most extensive and updated models.

The restaurant will feature a dining room, a kitchen in the center, and a larger meal preparation area. Outside, drivers can use two of three lanes to pick up food from a window.


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North Stafford could soon have its second Chick-fil-A restaurant.

The Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday, January 17, will hear a case requesting it to amend land use proffers to allow a fast-food restaurant to be built on a two-acre property near Garrisonville and Shelton Shop roads near a 7-Eleven and CVS Pharmacy.


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Pamela Yeung will serve as Stafford Board of Supervisors Chairman for 2023.

Yeung, first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2021,  is the first black person to hold the job in Stafford County. Her peers on the Board of Supervisors voted her into the position after five rounds of voting.


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During a meeting with members of the Stafford County GOP, Aquia District Supervisor Monica Gary said the owners of Aquia Town Center asked her about the prospect of the county purchasing the failed shopping center.

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The Stafford County Government sent invoices totaling $50,200 to seven local businesses that will sponsor the county’s Christmas tree lighting event.

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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors approved an Emergency Ordinance to temporarily eliminate penalties for tax bills paid by December 20, 2022.

This provides our citizens a little more time to pay their 2022 second-half Real Estate and Personal Property tax bills. Residents will now have until December 20, 2022, to pay these taxes normally due December 5, without incurring penalties.


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Stafford County Supervisor Monica Gary suggested taxpayers purchase Aquia Town Center, essentially a dirt field, the site of a formerly successful shopping plaza.

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The warning bells started ringing last spring that inflation is driving up the cost of needed road construction in Stafford County. Today, elected officials are stunned by the rising costs, which have soared to more than double the original cost estimates.

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Stafford County Sheriff’s deputies will be some of Northern Virginia’s highest-paid law enforcement officers.

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Voters in Stafford County could see a bond referendum on the ballot in November 2023 as the Board of Supervisors and School Board wrangle over how to pay for $1.6 billion in new schools and infrastructure needs over the next 10 years.

The school division needs two elementary schools to handle 1,10o more primary school students enrolled in the county by 2026. This year, the school division had 900 more elementary school-aged children enroll than expected as the pandemic waned and life in the classroom returned to normal for most children.