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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.