The Spotsylvania School Board on Monday will consider approving additional revisions to its policy and regulations concerning the selection and review of instructional materials. On the whole, the proposed changes represent compromises arrived at by an ad hoc book policy review committee that met four times over the summer, according to committee member Bernadette Chimner. […]
Two years ago, I had the opportunity to work with Adele Uphaus when I joined the Free Lance-Star as that paper’s Opinion Editor. Over my 25-year career in journalism, there are few reporters that I’ve worked with or led who were Adele’s equal. Her well of sources runs deep; her research skills are first-rate; and […]
We as Americans are consumed with national news and national elections. So much so that we often turn out for presidential elections at far high numbers than we do for any other type of election. Today is not one of those presidential elections. It’s not even an off-year election, where we don’t elect the next […]
At the end of the day, voters favored people over policies in Spotsylvania County, sometimes by significant margins. This election brought Spotsylvania back from the edge of becoming a county fueled by hard-right, exclusionary politics, and brought it back into the orbit of civilized political debate. The big news of the evening was the School […]
In Stafford and Fredericksburg, some new voices emerge. And in red Spotsylvania, a clear message – people over policies.
Keep checking in as we bring you the Virginia 2023 election returns plus local coverage from victory parties around the Fredericksburg region.
At several polling stations across Spotsylvania today, sample ballots with misleading information continued to be find their way into voters’ hands. At Battlefield Elementary School late this afternoon, the Advance was handed a yellow sample ballot with the header “Republican Sample Ballot,” and the man distributing the document referred to it as “a ballot from […]
We will be posting election returns this evening as they become available. Stay tuned!
‘It doesn’t matter’
Turnout low in Spotsy, higher in Fredericksburg. Civility is the word of the day among those working the tables at polling sites.
