From Stafford County Public Schools:
Stafford County Public Schools is pleased to announce North Stafford High School’s second annual mock judicial trial. NSHS criminal justice students will host a morning of mock trials in which they will participate as the jury and accused. Stafford County prosecutors and local defense attorneys will try the cases, which will consist of social media threats, distracted driving which causes injury, and possession and overdose of drugs.
The Honorable [Stafford County Circuit Court] Judge Michael Levy will preside.
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STAFFORD -- Black smoke billowed over the horizon on Saturday while fire crews worked a blaze on Marlborough Point Road.
The blaze broke out at 285 Marlborough Point Road, a 2-story, single-family home.
From Stafford Fire and Rescue Department:
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From a press release:
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) project to improve safety and operations at the Exit 130 interchange on Interstate 95 in Fredericksburg continues with overnight lane closures for water line and storm sewer work.
The Central Park main exit at Carl D. Silver Parkway to Route 3 will be closed overnight on Sunday, Sept. 24 through early Monday, Sept. 25.
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STAFFORD -- Both residents and leaders want a new traffic signal erected on Route 1 near an iconic crucifix.
Stafford County resident Amy Wieman said the cross is there for a reason.
"...if you pull out that road especially at rush hour you're not at all like you literally have to pray. That's why the crucifix there," she said.
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STAFFORD, Va. -- Fire and rescue crews in Stafford County were called to the Rowser Building about at 9:09 p.m. Rouse Swim and Sport Center at 8:29 p.m. Thursday. The building is operated was built by the Stafford County Government.
From Stafford fire and rescue Chief Mark Lockhart:
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From Stafford County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Bruce Benson:
There has been a lot of talk of late about maker spaces in education, as in dedicating space in our schools to support making things. Wikipedia defines maker culture as “a contemporary culture or subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture that intersects with hacker culture (which is less concerned with physical objects as it focuses on software) and revels in the creation of new devices as well as tinkering with existing ones.” I believe maker culture is much broader than this, extending into virtually every discipline through the lens of creativity. I had the opportunity last week to visit two classrooms that clearly embraced maker culture in two very different ways.
In Ms. Hansen’s Drama 2 class at Colonial Forge High School, we were introduced to basic choreography as a part of a unit on musical theater. Among others, we learned, and practiced, step touch, ball change, three-point turn, Lindy step, paddle turn, high kick, and bell jump (The last of two were particularly difficult for me. And, let me just say, my high kicks were anything but high!). Student groups were then challenged to choreograph (i.e. make) a dance routine for a song incorporating at least fifteen different moves.
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STAFFORD, Va. -- A new funding mechanism is in place to save two lakeside dams.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors voted 7-0 for the Lake Arrowhead Service District. The body will be in charge of overseeing a county-issued loan of at least as $540,000 to repair two dams that hold back waters in two lakes -- Big, and Little Lake Arrowhead -- neglected since 2005 when the community's property owners association disbanded.
Overall, the repair project could cost as much as $700,000. A state grant, and found monies from and old sanitary service district once in place in the neighborhood will be used to fund the difference. The authority will also be charged with maintaining the dams once repaired.
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STAFFORD, Va. -- Two dams in Stafford County's Lake Arrowhead neighborhood neglected since 2003 are failing, and Big and Little Arrowhead lakes could be drained leaving a muddy pit if residents choose to do nothing.
Lake Arrowhead residents at a public meeting last fall were split on whether or not to repair the dams or let them fail. Longtime residents said the dams could go and argued they 30 years ago were excluded from participating in activities hosted by the neighborhood's HOA that dissolved in 2003.
If the dams go, so to do the streets that run atop of the dams that connect the neighborhood.
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We wrote in 2014 about a dilapidated home near the intersection of Route 1 and 610 in North Stafford.
From a tipster on Jan. 24, 2017:
"Reference the story... [the owner] has done nothing with the property."
