The Fredericksburg Police Department is considering a political sign getting spray-painted with a swastika an act of vandalism, says a spokesman for Tara Durant for Delegate.
At 8 o'clock Thursday morning, police contacted the campaign to notify it about the vandalism. Durant, a Republican, is running for the House of Delegates seat for the 28th District as a Republican. The sign, which was tagged with a white swastika, was located near the Umi Sushi restaurant on Route 1 next to the Lawerence A. Davies Transit Center, which is used as the central bus depot for FRED Transit.
This particular sign of one of the biggest set up the campaign. Three others of similar size are set up around the district. The 28th District includes Fredericksburg and a portion of Stafford County.
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Enrollment in Stafford County Schools has recovered after a loss of students due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Enrollment at county elementary schools saw the most significant increase: 720 students as of September. This makes the total of Kindergarten to sixth-grade students 12,667 from the total of 11,947 at the same period last year. Middle school enrollment also increased by 60 students going from 7,130 in 2020 to 7,180 for this school year.
High school enrollment increased in 216 students from 9,924 in September 2020 to 10,140 for this school year.
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The work took longer than anticipated, but the Manassas Drive sinkhole at Railroad Drive has been filled.
The Manassas Park Governing Body had approved work on a sinkhole found on Manassas Drive, next to the Norfolk-Southern Railway. While city leaders approved the job on September 7, they feared it would be "very expensive," according to city documents, and would take about a month to repair.
However, there were unforeseen circumstances that caused the time to double.
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In Fredericksburg, the University of Mary Washington held a virtual debate between the three candidates running to be elected as a delegate for the 88th District.
Democrat Kecia Evans, Republican Phillip Scott, and Libertarian Tim Lewis seek to fill the seat that will be vacated by Mark Cole, the Republican incumbent who decided not to run and will vacate the seat at the end of his term on December 31.
Whoever wins the race on November 2 will represent portions of Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Fauquier counties, and Fredericksburg.
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The Manassas Park Governing Body has approved a resolution to allow flags representing special causes to fly on city-owned flagpoles.
The city has traditionally flown flags such as the U.S. Flag, the Virginia flag, and the city's flag on poles in front of its municipal buildings. Now the city will add banners that promote special causes such as breast cancer to that list of flags to fly.
The issue arose during the Governing Body's October 11 meeting when it initially decided to erect flags for special causes, such as breast cancer awareness, on utility poles throughout the city. But due to concerns about budget and manpower, a 30-minute discussion resulted in adjusting the idea from using the utility poles to using the city-owned flag poles.
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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of new vehicles for the county's fire and rescue department.
The county will purchase is first fireboat which will be used to assist emergency services that are operating in or near water. According to documents provided by the county, the boat will be a Metal Shark 32 Defiant series boat which is commonly used with law enforcement and rescue departments.
The boat will be operated by career fire personnel, have a length of 32 feet and will be outfitted with a Mercury Verado 350 HP Twin Outboard engine capable of traveling within the range of 40 to 45 knots. That speed would be equivalent to going 46 to 51 miles per hour on land.
Funding in the amount of $591,000 will be used from the Fiscal Year 2021 Capital Improvement Plan to purchase the boat. Multiple volunteer fire stations in the county including Brooke, Falmouth, and Widewater, and White Oak volunteer fire departments also operate boats.
The county has also relied on fire boats from neighboring Prince William and Fairfax counties, and Charles County, Md. when boaters on the Aquia Creek or Potomac River issue a distress call.
The county will also purchase a medical van which will be used to help with preventative care and provide health education for the community.
The vehicle itself will be a Ford Transit 350 2021 model which will be outfitted for the rescue department, the van will be provided by the Delaware-based Bayshore Ford Truck Sales Inc.
The county will use $200,000 from the balance of the previous year's budget to fund the purchase.
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Vice President Kamala Harris called on voters to give Terry McAuliffe four more years in the governor's mansion in Richmond.
Drawing attention to new restrictions in Texas than ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, allowing anyone to sue a person who helped a woman to terminate a pregnancy.
"Don't Texas Virginia," said Harris, who told supporters the race between McAuliffe and his Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin is close. "We need you to get out there and make your voices heard."
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Manassas City Hall will undergo its first-ever renovation starting in April 2022.
The Manassas City Hall building has housed many of the operations of the city since it first opened in 1987. The renovation will address issues plaguing the building's current workforce, such as traffic flow problems, creating more usable spaces, creating additional meeting and conference spaces, and making use of the hallways to reconfigure office space.
The extra space is intended to allow departments that regularly work together to be closer to each other.
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