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- June 24, 2024
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City Seeking Community Input into Comprehensive Plan Update

The first of several Community Conversations will be held on Wednesday. The Comprehensive Plan is a long-range policy guiding document. Fredericksburg residents have their first chance to contribute to the city’s updated Comprehensive Plan this Wednesday evening. It’s the first of several “community conversations” meant to gather input into the plan, which is a policy […]

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- June 20, 2024
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The Roundabout Way to Travel

Roundabouts are becoming more common nationally, statewide, and regionally. Traffic engineers say they are less expensive to construct and safer for motorists. There’s been a change in highway construction over the last decade that could make travel safer and less stressful. Traffic engineers across the country, the state, and the region are turning to the […]

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- June 20, 2024
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City School Division Seeks Teacher Input into Phone-Free Policy

Forty middle and high school teachers gathered for a working lunch this week. Fredericksburg City’s middle and high school teachers who attended a working lunch on Tuesday agree that the division needs to become phone-free and that the best way to achieve this is by locking student devices in secured pouches during the school day. […]

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- June 15, 2024
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Fredericksburg Area Experiencing Seasonal Uptick in Car Break-ins

Area police departments say this is not unusual for this time of year and offer advice. Lock your car, take your keys, and don’t leave anything valuable in your vehicle. That advice comes from several local police departments after the usual seasonal increase in automobile break-ins in neighborhoods across the region. There have been 19 […]

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- June 13, 2024
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City Clean and Green Commission Announces 2024 Sustainability Awards

A record number of local businesses received the award this year. Fredericksburg City’s Clean and Green Commission is recognizing 31 city businesses with its annual Sustainability Award, the commission announced Friday. The awards are given to businesses that agree to implement at least nine sustainable practices—up from the seven practices that were required to receive […]

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- June 13, 2024
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Area Home Prices Continue to Rise

And supply is low, according to Fredericksburg Area Association of Realtors May 2024 report. The median home price in Stafford County reached a record-breaking $551,000 last month, the highest price point ever seen in the county, the Fredericksburg Area Association of Realtors reported this week. “The Fredericksburg-area housing market continued to march on with the […]

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- June 6, 2024
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Flags Waving Downtown Year-Round

Vibrant colors, rich history, cultural diversity are just some of what the flags flying downtown on 110 poles reveal. The flags lining Fredericksburg’s downtown corridor are one of the city’s defining charms. But the flags are there for more than simple decoration. “The City’s flag displays constitute an official communication of the City of Fredericksburg […]

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FXBG Advance
- May 31, 2024
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Mary’s Landing Developer Submits Revised Site Plans

The developer is no longer requesting open space credits for preserving the 1964 Medical Arts Building. The developer of Mary’s Landing—a 63-townhome project proposed on several largely-vacant parking lots in the Canal Quarter neighborhood—has submitted a second site plan for City staff to review. Staff disapproved the first site plan in February, based on “a […]

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- May 31, 2024
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City Schools to Purchase 10 New Electric Buses

Purchase will be funded by grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Fredericksburg City Public Schools has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Environnmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus program, which it will use to purchase 10 new electric school buses. The 10 new buses will be added to the existing electric bus fleet […]

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- May 28, 2024
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Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Lays Out Preservation Goals for City Council

Top three goals have also been in the city’s Comprehensive Plan since 2015. HFFI hopes to see them achieved by May of 2025. At tonight’s Fredericksburg City Council meeting, the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation will present a series of preservation goals for the coming year. The top three goals—establish a preservation advisory committee, complete a historic […]

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