The rapid growth of electronic toll roads across the country has produced a new scam targeting motorists. Since early March, there have been more than 2,000 reports to the FBI about text messages attempting to collect unpaid tolls on various state toll roads. VDOT says they have heard of at least 160 attempts in Virginia […]
Twelve people, including nine University of Mary Washington students, were arrested earlier this evening on initial charges of trespassing and transported to the Rappahannock Regional Jail, according to a source with knowledge of the proceedings. Law enforcement from the UMW and Fredericksburg City police departments, as well as state police, were on campus this evening […]
The Advance has received confirmation that Richard Stuart Jr., King George County’s community development director, has resigned from his position. “Mr. Richard Stuart, Jr. has resigned as community development director. His last day will be on Wednesday, May 22,” spokeswoman Amy Southall wrote in an email Friday morning. Stuart is the son of Richard Stuart […]
Lydia Fallon, 5, had just one question for Mary Washington Healthcare during Wednesday’s public hearing on the hospital system’s recent expansion plans. “What about all the noise and dust at naptime?” she asked members of the Planning Commission. “Tell [MWHC] to wait. Thank you for hearing me.” Lydia attends Kids’ Station, the KinderCare-operated daycare center and […]
The ACLU of Virginia sent a letter today to the Virginia Department of Corrections asking that it apply last week’s Supreme Court of Virginia ruling and restore earned sentence credits to everyone who is eligible for them—and immediately release from prison those who have served their full sentences. The state’s high court determined in Garcia […]
You can now check out seeds as well as books from the downtown Fredericksburg branch of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. CRRL staff have repurposed an old, unused card catalog to serve as a seed library, and it officially opened to the public on Monday—Earth Day. “Seed libraries have been around for a while—a bunch […]
Education is the main way to tackle it, administrators believe. James Monroe High School held a mandatory assembly for all grade levels about the dangers of vaping earlier this month, following a number of health emergencies at the school. “It appears there’s lots of vaping going on in the bathrooms,” Matt Eberhardt, deputy superintendent, told […]
After several years of remaining flat, in-state tuition at the University of Mary Washington will increase by 2% next year. “A small increase, still below the rate of inflation, is needed to support state-mandated compensation actions for faculty and staff and the continued success of academic programs and the campus experience,” the university wrote in […]
Mary Washington Healthcare’s plans to build a new medical clinic where Kids’ Station daycare and preschool is now will be subject to a public hearing before the Fredericksburg Planning Commission on Wednesday. The hospital system is requesting a rezoning to replace the 1993 general development plan and permit the demolishment of Kids’ Station and the […]
Safety Tips to Know Before You Head onto the River
Editor’s note: Bob Sargeant is a Coast Guard veteran with more than 40 years of experience sailing and powerboating on the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. He is also an enthusiastic white-water canoeist and kayaker. He offers these boating safety tips in time for National Safe Boating Week, May 18-24; and “Wear […]