The week’s top stories:
-A former Spotsylvania County Public Schools behavioral interventionist was convicted Friday of misdemeanor assault and battery of a kindergarten student. A teacher who witnessed the incident testified and gave an inside look at the chaos that erupted on April 10 at Cedar Forest Elementary, reports Taft Coghill Jr.
–The King George County School Board voted 4-1 to uphold the library book checkout process at the middle school after a county resident challenged two novels deemed sexually explicit, writes Taft Coghill Jr.
-A joint effort between Fredericksburg officials, the NAACP and the Mayfield Civic Association is looking to provide old and new residents of the Mayfield community information regarding a petroleum pipeline that has run through the predominantly minority neighborhood since 1964, Joey LoMonaco reports.
–The King George Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to oust all Economic Development Authority members before reappointing just one during a meeting last week. One EDA member said she was blindsided by the decision, reports Taft Coghill Jr.
–What they’re saying
– “I’m a no vote. I will vote no on the height, no on the location … we are not making sound decisions for the schools and for Stafford.” – Stafford County Garrisonville District Supervisor Pamela Yeung on voting against a conditional use permit regarding a height exception for Elementary School No. 19.
Go figures (numbers that made the news)
634: The number of first-year students who moved into their dorm rooms as the fall semester began at the University of Mary Washington last week, writes Noelle Clark.
Pressing on (a look at the week ahead)
–Joey LoMonaco will provide coverage of what is expected to be an action-packed Fredericksburg City Council meeting Tuesday night. CSX Transportation Director of State Relations Randy Marcus is scheduled to provide an update on the derailment that toppled garages at Cobblestone Square apartments last month, and other hot-button issues in the city may be discussed.
