by Charlie Li INTERN Business Name: Cool Cat Cupcakes Location: 1000 Charles Street Regular Business Hours: Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – or until the shop sells out! Website: coolcatcupcakes.com Instagram: @coolcatcupcakes.llc Phone: 540/604-0271 Do you need comforting sweets without […]
Division asks legislature to prioritize school funding, employee recruitment and retention, career and technical education.
Downtown gallery will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year.
by Adele Uphaus MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Business Name: Brush Strokes Gallery Location: 824 Caroline Street Regular Business Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Website: brushstrokesfredericksburg.com Phone: 540/368-0560 Just under two decades ago, a group of artists who attended workshops led by Johnny Johnson – the late iconic Fredericksburg artist, teacher, mentor, […]
Stafford RISE is modeled on downtown Fredericksburg’s Micah Ministries
by Adele Uphaus MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Participants in Wednesday’s school-community roundtable hosted by Fredericksburg City Public Schools were almost finished allocating an additional $1 million in funding when event MC Lori Mueller tossed in a few last-minute curve balls to the mock-budgeting event. “We have some last-minute funding requests that have come in,” Mueller […]
By Adele Uphaus When she was performing in regional youth orchestras while growing up, it was rare for Kendall Isadore to see another person who looked like her. “I was always the only one in my all-state orchestra, or one of two,” Isadore said. “It’s hard. We’ve always been the only ones.” Orchestras throughout the […]
by Adele Uphaus MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT For 22 years, members of Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church in Stafford County have traveled into Washington, D.C. along with four other churches in their cluster to distribute clothes, food and hygiene kits to the homeless population. Earlier this year, someone asked Anji Budzynski, who is in her […]
Here are five things to know about the festive event.
Preschoolers at work on “gingerbread geometry.” Cosmetology students practicing in their in-school full-service salon. Elementary school gardens planted and tended by students and the community. A new middle-school chamber orchestra that practices on its own time. These are just some of the Fredericksburg City Public School programs and initiatives that local legislators visited during a […]
