The week’s top stories:
-At an informational event regarding data centers, panelists called for more transparency with the industry is set to explode in the Fredericksburg area in the coming years, writes Kathy Knotts.
-The attorney for a Caroline County farmer filed a motion requesting that the eminent domain exercised against a portion of his client’s property be invalidated, reports Taft Coghill Jr.
-Fredericksburg City Schools unveiled its proposed elementary school zoning map at a school board meeting last week, and Joey LoMonaco provided all the details.
-The Spotsylvania County School Board voted against a third-party investigation into an incident in which a behavioral interventionist struck a child with a shoe, much to the chagrin of two board members, Taft Coghill Jr. reports.
-The FredNats are headed to the Carolina League Championship Series after a 5-2 victory over the Carolina Mudcats this past Thursday. Fredericksburg will visit the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in Game 1 Sunday at 5:30 p.m. and will host Game 2 Tuesday at 7:05 p.m.
What they’re saying
“We will have cameras. We will expand cameras and in fact we will have cameras in other places because what happens is people get used to this new type of surveillance. Everybody used to be against government spying, now you’re welcoming it and asking it to change your radio station for you.” – Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors representative Chris Yakabouski on the potential of speed cameras in the county’s 25 school zones.
Go figures (Numbers that made the news)
–$2.8 million, the amount Stafford County Public Schools expects to save in electric bills over the next 25 years due to the size and efficiency of 3,300 solar panels covering nearly the entire rooftop at North Stafford High School.
Pressing on (A look at the week to come)
-The Free Press is hosting a town hall between Virginia Congressional 7th District candidates Eugene Vindman (D-Prince William) and Derrick Anderson (R-Spotsylvania) on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Fredericksburg Convention Center. Check back for coverage on an event that could help shape a pivotal race in the U.S. House of Representatives.
