Updated Thursday, August 17 -- A revived and revised version of an outer connector project that would create a path between Stafford and Spotsylvania counties would try to avoid populated areas by crossing into Culpeper and Orange counties.
During a Citizen Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) meeting held at the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, Chairman Henry Scharpenberg presented a vision for a new version of an outer connector bypass around Interstate 95 and Fredericksburg, designed to relieve traffic congestion on the highway.
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A new chicken restaurant with a Korean twist is now open in Manassas.
Hangry Joe’s Chicken, which brands itself as a Nashville-style chicken restaurant, sits at 9742 Liberia Avenue in Manassas. The restaurant replaces Strofi, a Mediterranean quick-service restaurant that opened in 2018.
The 1,656-square-foot restaurant will offer diners plates such as chicken sandwiches, chicken fingers, and chicken and waffles.
The menu will also have unique offerings such as Korean-style chicken nuggets, which offer a choice of regular or spicy soy garlic sauce with a side of rice. The amount of heat that the food can be cooked at according to the restaurant’s scale ranges from no seasoning and no heat to mild, medium, hot, and what Hangry Joe’s refers to as angry hot.
The restaurant’s website states customers who order angry hot must sign a waiver due to the high levels of heat and seasoning.
Derek Cha and Mike Kim founded the franchise. Cha is also the founder of Sweet Frog Frozen Yogurt, which launched in 2009.
Manassas will not be the only locality in Virginia to have a Hangry Joe’s location. According to its website, restaurants are planned for Gainesville, Dumfries, and Fredericksburg.
“Manassas is a great foodie city,” stated Cha in a press release. “We’re excited to bring a unique take on chicken sandwiches to a city with a lot of growth and a diverse, delicious food scene.”
Hangry Joe’s currently has eight locations opened in Virginia, including Richmond and Alexandria, two in Maryland and Texas, and one in New Jersey.
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), on Thursday, August 11, took a tour of Micron Technologies in Manassas to discuss the recently passed Chips and Science Act.
The Chips and Science Act appropriates $280 billion to invest in the production of American-made chips and semiconductors and tackle supply chain shortages that have occurred since due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors denied a rezoning that would have allowed the Lidl supermarket chain to open a new store in North Stafford.
The board held a public hearing on June 7 that resulted in the denial of the permit, which, if it had been approved, would have rezoned about an acre from residential to urban commercial zoning. An additional 1.37 acres adjacent to the plot would also have been amended with conditional proffers, which included building a new sidewalk along Greenspring Drive.
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However, those same safeguards wouldn't apply to locally-elected officials.
Since 2020, Spanberger has sought to ban politicians from trading single stocks. Spanberger introduced the Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act. She has also gone so far as to recommend that family members of sitting members of Congress should not be allowed to buy or sell individual stocks due to the privileged information that may find its way into their hands.
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The Central Rappahannock Regional Library System is currently conducting surveys and focus groups that will be used to inform its latest five-year strategic plan.
The library hired Dr. Cara Graham Parker of C Parker Consulting Inc. to collect data that will be used to create a strategic plan that will inform its priorities. According to its website, the firm is an organizational psychology firm that, according to its website, works to streamline the goals of an organization with the needs of its employees.
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Milestone Towers, a company affiliated with AT&T, proposes erecting a cell phone tower at H.H. Poole Middle School.
Stafford County Public Schools received a letter from Milestone Towers on behalf of the telecom to propose a partnership that could offer a potential revenue stream for the school division.
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A new strategic plan approved by the Manassas City School Board will include focusing on goals of on-time graduation and developing critical, creative, and collaborative thinking capabilities for students.
The new 2027 strategic plan was conceived over the course of 10 months starting in October 2021, involving 77 participants in the process and 1,770 hours of work, collaboration, edits, and revisions that were presented to the board at a recent meeting.
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Members of the United Food and Commercials Workers Local 400 held a demonstration at a Shoppers Food Warehouse to protest issues with the supermarket and its parent company.
Two dozen union members marched in front of the Shoppers at 1505 Stafford Marketplace in North Stafford to pressure parent company UNFI for a new contract that would include a raise in wages and fully funding health care benefits and retirement pensions.
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