A Stafford County student was honored as one of three winners of the fifth annual Virginia Lottery Thank a Teacher Art Contest. Jocelyn Turman, a seventh-grader at Edward Drew Middle School, won in the contest’s middle school category.
Three winners (one each from the elementary, middle, and high school levels) were selected from nearly 300 entries to have their artwork featured on thank-you notes distributed to thousands of teachers across the state during National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2 through 6, 2022.
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The race for Dumfries mayor is taking shape.
Sitting Mayor Derrick Wood announced he is running for re-election for a second four-year term. South Cove Homeowners Association President Ebony Lofton is also vying for the job.
Our weather will change rapidly over the next 48 hours, with chances of wintery precipitation in the early morning hours, tomorrow, Wednesday, March 30, and damaging storms on Thursday, March 31.
The wintry weather will move into the region overnight. However, behind the approaching warm front will be warmer temperatures.
[Updated March 30] On Tuesday afternoon, March 29, A Dodge caravan speeding south on Route 1 hit the rear of a Hyundai Santa Fe stopped in a turn lane across the Falmouth Bridge in Fredericksburg.
The Santa Fe began to spin, consequently hitting another truck.
A Macy’s employee at Manassas Mall reports a man exposed himself inside the store.
Prince William police report:
On March 28 at 6:49 p.m., a Stafford sheriff’s deputy went called to Route 17 in Falmouth a reported shooting. The victim said the driver of a Volkswagen sedan flipped the victim a middle finger, in the area of the Rio Car Wash.
As the drivers continued south on Route 17 and approached the intersection of Interstate 95, the other driver fired one shot from a black handgun, striking the rear passenger door of the victim’s sedan.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is joining 20 other states in a multistate action against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s continued use of a mask mandate for public transportation.
The Federal Government extended its mask mandate on public transportation to include local school buses until April 18.