Scott Hirons is a familiar face in the Stafford County Public Schools as a former school board member from 2014 to 2017.
The government contractor and father of three has become a write-in candidate to represent the Falmouth District on Stafford County School Board, currently held by Dr. Sarah Chase. Chase is the only candidate whose name will be printed on the ballot for Falmouth School Board.
Hirons is a graduate of George Mason University with a Bachelor's of Science in public administration earned in 1996 and an MBA from the University of Maryland in 2000. Potomac Local News talked with Hirons about his decision to run again and the issues he sees as necessary to the Stafford County Public Schools.
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[Updated 6:20 p.m.] The Manassas Park Governing Body is rewriting a new ordinance that allows special flags to fly only on a handful of city-owned flag poles.
If passed, the new rule would prevent U.S. flags specialty flags representing specific causes, such as breast cancer awareness month from hanging on the city's 35 utility poles used to hang banners in years past. Instead, those flags would be hung only on 10 flagpoles owned by the Manassas Park City Government.
The body was set to make a decision on the new flag ordinance at its October 5 meeting. Initially, the officials were going to allow specialty flags to hang on utility poles underneath U.S. flags.
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The Stafford County School Board has decided to loosen coronavirus quarantine restrictions.
Officials adopted a policy that will allow parents to choose how much time their child can stay in quarantine after potential exposure to anyone who may have the coronavirus. The recommended guideline provided by the Center for Disease Control is that a person exposed to the virus must be quarantined for 14 days.
After much discussion at its meeting Tuesday night [October 12], members of the School Board were confident in the idea of modifying the quarantine time to account for personal, psychological, or economic hardships that such an act may inflict on families.
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The Fredericksburg region celebrated the reopening of the Chatham Bridge. Work to rehabilitate the bridge began 16 months ago.
The reopening celebration saw speeches from local officials in attendance. During her speech, Fredericksburg Mayor Mary Katherine Greenlaw announced that a river trail from Dixon Park to Motts Run Reservoir connected by the bridge would be coming up soon.
Stafford County Board of Supervisors Chair Crystal Vaunch thanked many of the supervisors past and present who worked to make the rehabilitation a reality. This included former Aquia District Supervisor Paul Milde, outgoing Hartwood District Supervisor Gary Snellings, and current George Washington District Supervisor Tom Coen.
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Three Prince William County Racial and Social Justice Commission members held a town hall meeting at Patriot High School in Nokesville.
Three of the 12 appointed commissioners, Charles Haddow from the Coles District, London Steverson from the Brentsville District, and Erick Tredinnick from the Gainesville District, held the meeting to hear concerns from the public on various issues.
While the meeting was considered an open forum for several topics of discussion, the one item of concern for most attendees was Critical Race Theory. A PowerPoint presentation made by Haddow asked whether or not the controversial theory was indeed being taught to children in the county's government schools.
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Malawi's Pizza is celebrating its fourth anniversary by unveiling its new food truck as part of a new mission to help feed the community.
That mission known as "Feed FXBG" seeks to engage with local companies in the Fredericksburg area to meet the hunger needs of the local community. Malawi's mission as "Pizza with a Purpose" has been the driving force for the company since its opening in Fredericksburg four years ago.
Malawi's Pizza charitable efforts are known as its "Journey to a Million Meals" program. That goal was to donate one meal to a child in Malawi, Africa, for every meal purchased in their restaurant.
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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors is set to make another decision about a proposed mixed-use neighborhood, this time locain the southern section of the county.
The proposed mixed-acres development on 44 acres near Warrenton Road east of Interstate 95 would include 260 apartments in 11 three-story buildings, 114 townhomes, and 4,776 square feet of commercial space, located on the first floor of two of the apartment buildings. A private street, Glen Alice Road, would also be expanded to serve as the only entry road to the property.
The application for the development had been approved by the county's planning commission on June 28 after additions had been made at the commission's request.
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The Stafford County School Board approved the purchase of 4,800 new Chromebooks for high school and elementary school students.
Over the last several years, laptops, especially Chromebooks, had become a staple of Stafford County schools as a learning tool for students and were particularly necessary during the Coronavirus pandemic when many students were forced to resort to remote learning after local public schools were shut down for the majority of students.
The board approved the bulk purchase of the Chromebooks at $1.9 million. The laptops are to be purchased using funding from two different sources available to the government school division.
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The Stafford County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend an application for a conditional use permit that would create a child care center for the Embrey Mill Town Center.
Next, the Stafford County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on a public hearing for the child care center's application on October 19. The governing body must approve a permit for the center.
The application, made by Arlington-based North Stafford Associates L.C., which owns a 1.5-acre lot at the town center on which the daycare would be built, would see a 13,000 square foot building constructed for the child care center.
