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- March 4, 2024
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New Dominion Podcast: Chris Allen

What Make Fredericksburg Awesome Chris Allen is the executive director for Fredericksburg Main Street and talks about his organization’s role in historic preservation, small business development, and what makes a thriving downtown community (and Fredericksburg in particular) so special.

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- March 1, 2024
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Proposed City School Budget Has Unfunded Needs

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT There are $4.7 million worth of unfunded needs in the budget for fiscal year 2025 proposed by Fredericksburg City Public Schools superintendent Marci Catlett. Catlett and the division’s chief financial officer Jennifer Brody presented the budget to the School Board at a special meeting on Thursday. The division expects […]

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- February 29, 2024
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FAMPO Seeks Feedback on Safe Streets and Roads for All Action Plan

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT The Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is seeking public input into its comprehensive draft safety action plan, which it released Wednesday. FAMPO is responsible for transportation planning in the Fredericksburg area, to include the City and the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, and it also provides rural transportation planning for Caroline […]

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- February 23, 2024
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City School Division Seeks Input on Plans for the 1935 Walker-Grant School

Ideas include a museum, “memory lab,” and community center. by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Fredericksburg’s historic Walker-Grant school has been educating and caring for members of the community for approaching 100 years, and the City wants to ensure that the building can continue to serve these purposes going forward. The school division and City […]

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- February 8, 2024
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Fredericksburg’s Civil Rights Trail Has Been Added to the National Civil Rights Trail

Local trail is one of four Virginia sites on the national trail.

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- February 6, 2024
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City School Board Work Session Reveals Budget Challenges

Division expects decreased revenue from state, is working to cut $1.5 million.

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- February 6, 2024
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In Defense of Density

City Council’s approval of amendments to the unified development ordinance has sparked a debate over what the changes will mean. One resident weighs in in favor of density.

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- February 1, 2024
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Donation from Anderson Propane Will Help James Monroe High School's Giving Tree Go Mobile

For the second year, city school is beneficiary of company’s charity golf tournament.

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- January 22, 2024
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Townhouse Project Proposed for Vacant Parking Lots Near Old Hospital Building

Sixty-three new townhouses could be coming to 3.87 acres on Fall Hill Avenue across the street from the old Mary Washington Hospital building. The development—to be called “Mary’s Landing”—is proposed to take the place of parking lots in the 400 block of Hunter Street, Elm Street and Germania Street that have long stood largely vacant. […]

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- January 21, 2024
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Music Review: THE FREDERICKSBURG JAZZ COLLECTIVE

So you live in Fredericksburg, and you think it’s a “jazz desert,” with the closest clubs like Blues Alley 60 miles away in DC or like Keystone Corner 100 miles away in Baltimore? Think again. Jazz is alive and well in Fredericksburg. The Fredericksburg Jazz Collective (FJC) is a nonprofit organization that hosts an open mic jam […]

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