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- May 15, 2024
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School Board will vote on proposed new regulation, as well as other updates to the Code of Student Conduct, next month. The Stafford School Board is considering banning use of cell phones and other personal electronic communication devices during the regular school day. The Board at its regular business meeting on Tuesday reviewed a proposed […]

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- May 13, 2024
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Treasury Secretary Yellen celebrated almost 700 homes gaining high-speed internet access in Stafford. Pending additional government funds could connect all Virginians in near future. About two miles from Richland Baptist Church in Stafford, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was getting a crash course in splicing and testing fiber optic wire on Monday morning when her […]

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- May 5, 2024
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Company has submitted a conditional use application to allow construction of a travel center with vehicle fuel sales in Garrisonville district. Buc-ees, the Texas-based chain of travel centers, is looking at Stafford County as the site of its third Virginia location. The company wants to open a travel center on a 36.18-acre site at the […]

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- May 2, 2024
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Stafford County high schools honor their graduating seniors. Mountain View High School senior Lily Sanford will be attending James Madison University next year. She’s been accepted onto the university’s official dance team and plans to major in psychology. While in high school, she’s been involved in student government, and this year is a senior class […]

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- April 30, 2024
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Stafford and Caroline County Public Schools each have programs included in the 28th annual Virginia School Board Association’s Showcases for Success directory. The two local divisions are among 43 divisions statewide that are profiled in the publication, which highlights successful K-12 programs in Virginia. Caroline County The three Caroline County programs that are included are […]

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- April 22, 2024
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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 19, 2024
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Stafford supervisors are considering developing a comprehensive county-wide noise ordinance in order to be able to control the noise level produced by data centers. Meg Bohmke, Chair of the Stafford Board of Supervisors, said this week that she wants the Board to locate a third-party consultant to conduct noise analyses of proposed data center developments—and […]

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- April 15, 2024
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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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- April 12, 2024
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by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Among the bills Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed this session is one that would have permitted all localities in Virginia to charge 1% sales tax to fund public school construction projects. Youngkin vetoed the legislation, which passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support, this week. Virginia is a Dillon […]

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- April 10, 2024
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by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Stafford County Public Schools’ support staff—the bus drivers, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers, administrative assistants, bookkeepers, and other employees who aren’t teachers but who are essential to the day-to-day functioning of the school division—will receive long-awaited raises under the provisional budget adopted Tuesday by the School Board. These employees, who […]

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