47 hospitalized with COVID in three area hospitals
Rappahannock Area Health District reports 300+ new COVID cases over the weekend
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LISTEN: Town Talk/Legal Aid Works
Legal Aid Works Executive Director Ann Kloeckner talks about the American Rescue Plan (and how to get your stimulus check), tax changes and the status of rent and mortgage payments during the pandemic.
VDOT updates I-95 at Fredericksburg: where we are now, and where we’re going
VDOT provides info on I-95 work in the region
PHOTOS: Another Habitat home rises in Caroline
Habitat of Caroline is currentlys building five homes. Walls went up Saturday on one of the build sites in Miford. Want to find out about volunteering? habitatofcaroline.org
WATCH: Habitat volunteers in Caroline spend Saturday installing walls
What did you accomplish this weekend? About a dozen volunteers at a Habitat for Humanity build in Caroline County put walls up on a home in Milford.
Annual Bay Barometer shows mixed recovery of Chesapeake Bay ecosystem
The Chesapeake Bay program releases annual assessment of Bay health
State Forestry Department offering Ash treatment cost-share program
This spring, the State Forestry Department is offering a 50 % cost-share program for landowners and organizations to offset the treatment of specimen ash trees via trunk injection.
PHOTOS: Tulips on Caroline Street
Tulips brightening up lower Caroline Street downtown.
LISTEN: Tracy McPeck/Central Rappahannock Regional Library
Tracy McPeck, the Adult Services Coordinator with the Central Rappahannock Regional Library, with an update on Library Express and Curbside Pickup, Idea Space–Tech on the Go and the Year round Reading Challenge.
Keep Virginia Beautiful kicks off 2021 Green Grants Program
Applications open for 30 in 30 Green Grants to be awarded during June
Drive-thru rabies clinic in Stafford
vaccinate your pet for $10
Rappahannock Area Health District weekly COVID numbers
Locality-by-locality look at the numbers
Spend some time this spring at several nearby State Parks
Eight colorful reasons why you’ll have a spring in your step when you spend time outside at a Virginia State Park this April and May.
Veteran and Wounded Warrior programs thrive virtually at NSWCDD despite pandemic
Marietto Jeffries founded the ‘Veterans Connected’ newsletter several years ago to provide consistent communication of relevant information to government employees and defense contractors who served, or currently serve, in the U.S. armed forces.
Virginia’s four International Dark Sky Parks
Virginia State Parks has four parks designated as International Dark Sky Parks by the International Dark-Sky Association – Staunton River, James River, and recently added Natural Bridge and Sky Meadows.
New Truslow Road overpass in Stafford now open
The structure is wider and longer over I-95 than the previous bridge. It was rebuilt as part of the VA Express Lanes Fredericksburg Extension project.
Virginia among 15 east coast states participating in the annual “I-95 Drive to Save Lives”
You may see more Troopers on I-95 Friday and Saturday
Rappahannock Area Health District reports 99 new COVID cases
Percent positivity still high at 9+
LISTEN: Town Talk/Rappahannock Area Health District
Madison Eberhart and Allison Balmes-John with an update on COVID numbers and the move into Phase 2 of vaccinations in the region.
VIDEO: Truslow Road overpass opens this afternoon in Stafford
VDOT says it’s longer & slightly wider. It was rebuilt as part of VA Express Lanes Fredericksburg Extension project
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