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Does digging it out give you dibs?
Stealing cleared parking spots is not the neighborly thing to do

Uniting to help Haiti rebuild
An Episcopal missionary pleads for Americans to help Haitians rebuild their country.

Snow days adding up for school systems
Fredericksburg-area students snowed out of the classroom this winter

Delegates to vote on radar detectors
House to vote on eliminating law against radar detectors

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• Snow days adding up for school systems
• Does digging it out give you dibs?
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• Search on for missing Westmoreland woman

Obituaries:

• Dorothy C. Gibson
• John Wesley Culley
• Edith E. Payne
• Haidee B. Kaslusky
• Cisroe R. Bates
• James W. Smith
• James T. Daymude
• Timothy S. Dwight
• Eladio E. Martinez
• Grayson A. Satterwhite
• James M. Brown
• Maureen M. Sydnor
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Community Blogs:

Redskins Journal
Report: Romanowski speaks, says he's not interviewing

City Beat
Hearing on so-called out-of-scale houses will continue

Spotsy govt.-the odds & ends
PPTA and Lafayette Crossing

Toon Talk
Caption Contest #60

Ten-hut!
Fort A.P. Hill demo testing resumes

The Chalkboard
Stafford closes school tomorrow and Thursday

Caroline Crossroads
Caroline and Spotsy open shelter at Thornburg Middle School

In Moderation
Safe and warm

Tuned In
Wolf Trap's summer season

Rapid Assessment
Spotsy hospital cancels job fair

On the Road
The Iceman Cometh. Again.

Getting Schooled
How are you weathering the snow days?

Business Browser
Don't forget to shovel out fire hydrants

Doing Good
Heart Gallery

About Faith
Vick's Testimony

News from King George
Who dat gonna cheer for Bushrod?

I'm not saying ... I'm just saying
Bench-press for the brain

Past is Prologue
Webb: Enlarge Petersburg's national park

Real Life
Can this be true?

Stafford County News and Notes
Raven Road Redux...and More!

Water, earth and sky
More on Caroline sludge

What's In Store?
Cafaro chat transcript

Portsia Faces Life
Moments in motherhood

Back Focus: The Photo Blog
Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants

It Beats Working For a Living
The Sweaty American

Letters to the editor:

• Orange shows need for new battlefield strategy
• Battlefield trash is everyone's concern
• Mussey's cartoon was not a bit funny
• Postal workers, too, need a snow break!
• Why are they plowing before it snows?
• Your unsecured trash desecrates Wilderness
• Just raise taxes and we'll have plenty of money
• I'm so grateful for our neighbor, Steve Groth
• Nurse: Because of Guard, I was able to help my patients
• Thanks to 'Steve,' hero of Little Whim Road
• Paper late on a snowy day? That's called life
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