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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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- 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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Stafford School Board Directed to “Immediately Stop Spending Dollars” on Elementary School Site at Brooke Point High School

Proffered school site in Embrey Mill neighborhood

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Stafford County Administrator Randall Vosburg has directed the School Board to “immediately stop spending dollars on the Elementary 19 site at [Brooke Point High School.” “As you know, the [Board of Supervisors] has been expressing concerns over the School Board’s proposed location for the elementary school at [BPHS] for […]

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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 10, 2024
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Two Stafford Seniors are Candidates to be named U.S. Presidential Scholars

Colonial Forge students will be considered for national recognition.

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- January 20, 2024
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Kerr: Stafford County Has a Severe Problem with Food Insecurity

Stafford County, with a population 145,000, ranks 15th in the state in terms of per capita income (there are 134 counties and cities in Virginia), and nationally comes in at 19th in median income.  These are two indicators that imply a thriving and healthy economic picture.  Certainly not one where there would be a serious food insecurity […]

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