FLS News

Apple picking is fun to core

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

MARKHAM--Here's what we imagined when we booked a campsite in Shenandoah National Park with some friends for the Saturday before Halloween: Pitching our tents under a beautiful canopy of red and gold leaves bursting with fall splendor....

Orange blocks public from community room

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

After Jan. 1, Orange residents and organizations will no longer be able to use the town's community room. The Orange Town Council voted last week to restrict use of the town's large multipurpose room to official town business. Mayor Henry Lee Carter cast the lone vote against the idea, which was suggested by Councilwoman Nancy Alexander....

A tasty mocha, please, but hold the calories

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

As I open the door to the coffee shop, I am greeted by smooth jazz and the promise of a $3 remedy for a cold and rainy Monday. Though I'm a self-professed coffee addict all year round, I make more excuses to get my sugary caffeine fix as the weather gets colder....

MILITARY NOTES

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Air Force Airman Jared L. Wilson has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. He is the son of Harry Wilson of Locust Grove. Air Force Airman Nicole A. Boggs has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. She is the daughter of Pamela Golden of King George and is a 2008 graduate of Brooke Point High School....

Census announces local managers

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The U.S. Census Bureau has appointed a slate of managers for a new 2010 Census office in Fredericksburg. Rose Thomas is the local census office manager. She worked as a recruiting assistant in the 2000 Census and was assistant manager for recruiting in the Richmond office before being named to Fredericksburg. ...

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

CLASSES/SEMINARS/EVENTS Lecture: "Life With(out) Walls: East Germany Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall," a personal account by Marcel Rotter, assistant professor of German, Monday, 5 p.m., University of Mary Washington, Combs Hall, Room 139. Free. 540/654-1996....

SOCIAL WORK NEVER DONE

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

AYOUNG CHILD IS found dead from an apparent drug overdose. His mother is arrested for his murder. The child had been a client of social services, and had been removed from his mother's care while she got her life together. Social worker Claire Conover made the decision to return Michael to his mother, Ashley, and now he was dead. Claire is convinced that Ashley was one of the few who'd really turned her life around, but the young mother has confessed and is unwilling to recant....

'HARDBALL': THAT'S HOW IT'S PLAYED

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

IT'S BEEN A LONG time since readers got a chance to visit with V.I. Warshawski, introduced by author Sara Paretsky in 1982's "Indemnity Only." Four years after her 12th Warshawski book, Paretsky returns with "Hardball," and reading it is like visiting again with an old friend....

'NEW BLACK' IS LIKE THE OLD 'REDD'

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

TRACY MORGAN is a "wild and crazy guy." That's the first thing he wants to get across in his autobiography, "I Am the New Black." And the current star of NBC's "30 Rock," won't get any argument from us....

Utilities plug into demand for renewables

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Richard C. Oliver is encouraging green-energy production by paying about $5 to $6 more a month on his utility bill. That's the difference between what Rappahannock Electric Cooperative charges the Orange County farmer for electricity produced in the traditional way and the price for power generated using renewable resources such as biomass....

HEALTH CALENDAR

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

MEETINGS/CLASSES/EVENTS American Red Cross blood drives, Sunday, Nov. 8, KOC, Bishop Keating Council (Courthouse Dept.-Spotsylvania Volunteer Fire & Rescue), 10 a.m.-1 p.m., and Best Buy, 9745 Jeff Davis Highway, Fredericksburg, 3-6 p.m.; Monday, Nov. 9, The Plains Community (Grace Episcopal Church, Parish Hall), 2:30-7 p.m.; Tuesday, Nov. 10, Essex Community (Tappahannock-Essex Volunteer Fire Department), 1-7 p.m., Madison Women's Club (Madison Fire Hall), 1:30-7 p.m., and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Culpeper, 12:30-6 p.m.; Thursday, Nov. 12, Orange Community (Orange Baptist Church, Social Hall), 1:30-7 p.m.; and Friday, Nov. 13, Chick- fil-A, Culpeper, 2-7 p.m.; also at Fredericksburg Donor Center, 4836 Southpoint Parkway, Wednesday, 1-7 p.m., and Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m....

National Parks free for visitors Wednesday

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Visitors to America's public recreation lands managed by the National Park Service will be admitted free on Veterans Day (Wednesday, Nov. 11). The move, initiated by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, is being made to honor America's service men and women....

O'Banner is NAACP queen

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Jasmine O'Banner, a ninth- grade student at North Stafford High School, was crowned the 2009 NAACP Queen of Stafford County during the recent NAACP King & Queen Rally of area churches in Stafford County. Jasmine, the daughter of Keith and Irma O'Banner, is an honor-roll student and a cheerleader on the Junior Varsity Cheer Squad....

DAR honors two for service

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The Mine Run Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored a retired educator and the founder of a safe-driving school with community service awards. The honorees were Fred Franklin and Dr. G. Thomas Phillips. The awards were presented at a banquet in mid-October....

Rappahannock refuge gains another 260 acres

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

By RUSTY DENNEN The Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge has grown by another 260 acres....

Sheriff recalls terror and intensity of case

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Spotsylvania Sheriff Howard Smith remembers the day his county became part of the Beltway Sniper case....

College food drive part of try for Guinness world record

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The University of Mary Washington will hold its fourth annual food drive on Thursday. The college is partnering with campuses across the nation in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most food collected in a 24-hour period....

Home will welcome those in crisis

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

At first glance, the house appears unremarkable: just another beautiful and inviting Fredericksburg home. The cheerful white rocking chairs and a state-of-the-art grill on the porches seem to beckon guests inside....

VDOT HOT SPOTS

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

STAFFORD COUNTY Interstate 95...

Fredericksburg-area governments announce meeting schedules

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

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Mountain View reaches states

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

FROM STAFF REPORTS Lexi Plutt broke open a tight Northwest Region field hockey final with a goal before halftime and the Wildcats went on to claim their second regional championship in a row with a 2-0 victory over North Stafford at Mountain View High School yesterday....

Packing the house, showing the love

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

More than 1,250 people stood up and cheered the moment that Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women--took the stage for their final concert last night, and the applause continued throughout the 2-hour show. After 25 years of performing throughout the world, the Fredericksburg-based group gave its final performance in front of a packed house at Dodd Auditorium at the University of Mary Washington....

Stafford County grand jury announces indictments

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The following people were indicted recently by a Stafford County grand jury: Jeffery Eliu Alfarao, Woodbridge, embezzlement....

Sewer project to finish mid-2011

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Washing clothes and flushing toilets should become less problematic in the Westmoreland County subdivision of Placid Bay by the middle of 2011. That is the approximate completion date of a new sewer system that will connect 700 users in Placid Bay and other communities south of Mattox Creek with the Colonial Beach wastewater treatment plant six miles away....