A shopping center fire, changing leadership at Mary Washington Healthcare and a commemorative resolution honoring a Civil Rights icon topped headlines.
Press Rewind, Dec. 1-7
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Fire ravages businesses at Fredericksburg’s Eagle Village shopping center
Blaze broke out before 1 p.m. Thursday and initially proved difficult to extinguish.
Fredericksburg School Board discusses possibility of adding time to school day in 2025-26
School division also unveils new mission and vision statement.
Mary Washington Healthcare CEO McDermott to step down
McDermott has served as president and CEO of the health care nonprofit since January 2015.
Fredericksburg City Council grants FAM $150,000 for design of auction block memorial
The memorial will be designed by Eto Otitigbe, the lead artist behind the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
PODCAST: Coffee Shop Talk with Fredericksburg Mayor Kerry Devine
Free Press managing editor Joey LoMonaco sits down with Fredericksburg Mayor Kerry Devine to discuss her two decades in city government, as well as data centers, homelessness and affordable housing.
Left side, strong side: despite disability, Ellia ‘didn’t ask for anything special’
Seventh grader overcame a mild form of cerebral palsy to make the football team at Chancellor Middle School.
Carter, Brooks sentenced to 28 years for ‘senseless’ 2023 city slaying
Fredericksburg Circuit Court Judge Gordon F. Willis sentenced Aaron Carter and Lorenzo Brooks to 40 years, with 15 suspended, for second-degree murder, along with three years for the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Constitutional amendment gets a vote of confidence at Restoration of Rights Forum
HJ 2, which would automatically restore felons’ right to vote, passed the House of Delegates Committee on Privileges and Elections on a party line vote Wednesday.
Press Rewind, Nov. 10-16
What’s new: Data centers and more drama among members of the Spotsylvania County School Board.
Fredericksburg City Council hails data centers as ‘generational’ opportunity
After passing resolution on data centers, the body then went into closed session to discuss a development in Celebrate Virginia South.
All aboard the democracy train, er, trolley
UMW Votes program offered free transportation to students on Election Day.
FCPS’s new behavior policy ‘depends on the student and the adult’
City teachers, students adjusting to implementation of Responsibility-Centered Discipline policy.
For local Electoral Board chair, democracy is in the details
In 2023, Fredericksburg had the fifth-highest total of provisional ballots of any locality in Virginia.
These first-time voters found the ballot box — eventually
The young and not-so-young experienced civic firsts on Tuesday.
Podcast: Coffee shop talk with UMW’s Stephen Farnsworth
The Director of UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies and area’s preeminent political scientist, sat down for a conversation over locally-roasted coffee.
Press Rewind, Oct. 27- Nov. 2
A postal picket, a heartening hoops story and emergency bridge repairs highlighted the past week’s headlines.
Fredericksburg City Council moves forward on legislative agenda, priorities
When state legislators return to Richmond in January to convene the General Assembly, Fredericksburg city officials will be watching.
Fredericksburg postal workers aim to stamp out support for tentative agreement
Workers held informational picket held in opposition to a tentative agreement reached last week between the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and USPS.
Planning Commission approves requests related to Jeremiah Community
The supportive housing project could go before city council for approval as early as next month.
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