On July 10, the Fredericksburg Planning Commission held a public hearing on the supportive housing development, which is proposed for 31.7 acres in the Bragg Hill area.
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On July 10, the Fredericksburg Planning Commission held a public hearing on the supportive housing development, which is proposed for 31.7 acres in the Bragg Hill area.
Micah’s Meghann Cotter explains the project off Wicklow Drive and talks about the needs in the region.
The event will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Caroline Community Services Center.
Shiloh Baptist Church-Old Site on Sophia Street in downtown Fredericksburg remembered the past on Sunday morning.
Event included singers, vendors and mobile prayer teams throughout downtown Fredericksburg.
FailSafe-ERA is a Fredericksburg area program that works with familes and inmates impacted by incarceration.
Two community leaders also honored for their work for justice.
Sunrise services were held around the region to begin Easter Sunday. Among them, Mount Hope Baptist on Gordon Road in Spotsylvania.
Josh Hardy would have turned 18 on March 31, 2024. Ten-year-old Josh passed away in 2016 from a rare form of cancer and complications from years of treatment. The Fredericksburg area–and far beyond–got behind the #savejosh movement as his mom fought to get him an experimental drug.
Former City Councilman and local historian recognized for their efforts.
This year’s event raised more than $164,000 to combat hurt, hunger and homelessness in the Fredericksburg area.
On Thursday, at the Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) that served as the backdrop of many of those milestones, Mayor Kerry Devine announced that the city’s Fredericksburg’s Civil Rights Trail: “Freedom: A Work in Progress” has been accepted to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine spoke on the Senate floor on National Religious Freedom Day that honors the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (written in Fredericksburg) that became the basis of the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom.
Goshen Baptist in Spotsylvania
Historic church destroyed by fire this week
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Oak Grove destroyed early Tuesday.
Micah’s Scripture and Song…third time it’s been done
Micah Ecumenical Ministries third annual Lessons and Carols
Tony Beasley was the focus at a Thursday night program at Meadow Event Park. The third base coach for the World Champion Texas Rangers spoke about family and faith.
It began at Shiloh Baptist Church Old Site in 1865