Concerns about Kid’s Station remain. MWHC touts graduate education program as solution to region’s crushing shortage of physicians. The Fredericksburg Planning Commission voted 6-to-1 on Wednesday evening to recommend approval of Mary Washington Healthcare’s rezoning request. The request will next be subject to another public hearing before City Council, which will have final say into […]
When the new middle school opens next year, the building that now houses Walker-Grant Middle School will be converted into a third elementary school. As work continues on Fredericksburg’s new middle school, division administrators are beginning to plan for the conversion of the current middle school into a third elementary school. The new $77 million, […]
The university cited exemptions permitting it to withhold 10 emails responsive to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. In her response, university spokeswoman Amy Jesse said eight responsive emails would be withheld as “papers, records, documents, reports, materials, databases, or other evidence or information relative to criminal intelligence or any terrorism investigation in […]
Company has submitted a conditional use application to allow construction of a travel center with vehicle fuel sales in Garrisonville district. Buc-ees, the Texas-based chain of travel centers, is looking at Stafford County as the site of its third Virginia location. The company wants to open a travel center on a 36.18-acre site at the […]
Lisa Phelps and April Gillespie asserted last week, without evidence, that School Board attorneys are looking for reasons to fire Mark Taylor. Spotsylvania School Board member April Gillespie alleged at a work session last week that the school division’s attorneys are still looking for cause for terminating former superintendent Mark Taylor’s contract. In response to […]
But this is a temporary fix. Members must decide what kind of construction project will best serve the county long-term. Six King George County preschool classes will move from the rapidly deteriorating building on St. Anthony’s Road where they are now housed to King George Elementary in the fall. That will leave three classes, comprised […]
Preservation groups hope new “endangered historic site” designation will prevent massive development project. In May of 1864, the Union and Confederate armies came face to face in the thickets of old growth forest along the Orange Turnpike and Plank Road along what now along the Orange County/Spotsylvania County line. It was the beginning of the […]
It is the only hospital in Virginia to receive this rating. Mary Washington Hospital received a grade of ‘D’ in Leapfrog Group’s spring 2024 hospital safety ratings, which were released this week. It is the only hospital out of 72 in Virginia to receive a grade of ‘D’ from the independent, nonprofit watchdog group. The […]
Stafford County high schools honor their graduating seniors. Mountain View High School senior Lily Sanford will be attending James Madison University next year. She’s been accepted onto the university’s official dance team and plans to major in psychology. While in high school, she’s been involved in student government, and this year is a senior class […]
Fredericksburg is turning a negative – a high percentage of students who qualify for free- and reduced-price lunch – to a positive; creative, healthy foods for students. The kids at James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg, Viginia, love to complain about the cafeteria food. “It’s soggy and gross,” says one. “It’s just nasty,” another chimes […]
