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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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- 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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- May 23, 2024
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Spotsylvania Teacher Did Not Include Fredericksburg Employment on Resume

Candyce Carter, a 2nd grade teacher at Spotswood Elementary, was arrested last week at the school and charged with possession of narcotics and felony child endangerment. Candyce Carter, the Spotsylvania teacher who was arrested last week on drug and child endangerment charges, did not include her three-month employment with Fredericksburg City Public Schools on her […]

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- May 20, 2024
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Spotsylvania Teacher Arrested for Drugs Worked for Fredericksburg City Schools until November

Parents and teachers in Fredericksburg raised concerns to administration. Hiring in Spotsylvania surfaces questions about the district’s hiring process at that time. Candyce Carter, the 2nd grade teacher for Spotsylvania County Public Schools who was arrested last week on charges of possession of narcotics, child endangerment, and child neglect or abuse, was previously a teacher […]

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- May 7, 2024
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Interview with Kerry Devine

Fredericksburg’s newest mayor has grit, vision, and a love of baseball. Recently, FXBG Advance sat down with Kerry Devine, the newly minted mayor of Fredericksburg to learn more about who she is, her vision for the future of the city, and the joys of bringing new people into a tight-knit but welcoming community. FXBG Advance: […]

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- May 7, 2024
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Beginning to Plan for Three Elementary Schools in Fredericksburg

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, […]

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