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- May 1, 2024
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Not Just Your Average School Lunch Program

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Fredericksburg is turning a negative – a high percentage of students who qualify for free- and reduced-price lunch – to a positive; creative, healthy foods for students. The kids at James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg, Viginia, love to complain about the cafeteria food.  “It’s soggy and gross,” says one.  “It’s just nasty,” another chimes […]

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- April 30, 2024
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Why Mary Isn’t Sticking the Landing

Bear with me, but I have a terrible knot in the back of my right shoulder that neither heat nor medicine nor water can seem to unlock. Political differences can seem that way as well. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, the problem just seems intractable — sometimes because the players want to make […]

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- April 29, 2024
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Announcing the First Annual Fredericksburg Film Festival

There’s no reason now to travel to Cannes or Sundance—Fredericksburg is getting a film festival of its own. The first annual Fredericksburg Film Festival will take place throughout downtown starting Thursday and lasting through Sunday. Thirty-three original, independent short and feature-length narrative and documentary films will be screened during the festival, and there will also […]

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- April 29, 2024
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Why Mary Isn’t Sticking the Landing

When you have an LLC within an LLC moving within weeks and not months on a prime piece of property? There ought to be questions. Bear with me, but I have a terrible knot in the back of my right shoulder that neither heat nor medicine nor water can seem to unlock. Political differences can […]

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- April 22, 2024
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Vaping in School is a Growing Problem

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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 […]

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- April 22, 2024
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Public Hearing on Mary Washington Healthcare’s Expansion Plan Scheduled

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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 […]

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- April 18, 2024
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Lunch with the Boys in Bowties

Hugh Mercer Elementary School's Boys and Bowties club at lunch in downtown Fredericksburg this week.

Instead of lunch in the cafeteria on Wednesday, the members of Hugh Mercer Elementary’s Boys and Bowties after-school club enjoyed herbal tea-infused water, matar paneer, and a classic wedge salad at Katora Coffee in downtown Fredericksburg. “This is amazing,” said Lincoln Pretz, cutting into a slice of iceberg lettuce drizzled with balsamic reduction. Prior to […]

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- April 16, 2024
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‘Stasis Isn’t Possible’

Fredericksburg continues to experience explosive growth. How will the city handle it? What will the city look like in the future? Two members of city council offer their ideas. The city of Fredericksburg, like the two largest counties that it shares a boundary with – Spotsylvania and Stafford – is facing significant growth challenges. While […]

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- April 16, 2024
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City Students Get to Know the Rappahannock River

6th grade students at Walker-Grant Middle School measure the turbidity of the Rappahannock River during an field trip on April 16, 2024. Photo by Adele Uphaus.

Turbidity was the word of the day for 6th grade students at Walker-Grant Middle School. It’s a measure of the relative clarity of a liquid, and this week, the students were determining the turbidity levels of the Rappahannock River. Dirt and soil are the number one pollutants of our local river, Jennifer Gron, field trip […]

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- April 15, 2024
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge was in “Fair” Condition. How Many Local Bridges are in “Poor” Condition?

by Hank SilverbergCORRESPONDENT The dramatic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month has raised concern across the country about the condition of the nation’s bridges. That particular bridge was listed in “fair” condition, yet it fell into the Patapsco River quickly when hit by a cargo ship. What about the hundreds […]

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