The week’s top stories
-A fire damaged several businesses in Fredericksburg’s Eagle Village shopping center Thursday afternoon, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and prompting a response from at least 50 firefighters.
-Mary Washington Healthcare CEO Mike McDermott is stepping down. McDermott, who’s led the health care nonprofit since 2015, announced his resignation Monday to take a similar position in Monterey, Calif.
-Any missed instructional time due to inclement weather could quickly snowball for Fredericksburg City Schools, under a proposed 2025-26 calendar with little wiggle room.
-The House of Representatives passed a resolution, patroned by Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-7th), to name a Fredericksburg post office after the late Gladys P. Todd, a key figure in Fredericksburg’s Civil Rights movement.
-That digging you’ve seen all around roadways across the Fredericksburg area? It’s laying the groundwork for data centers, write Bill Freehling.
What they’re saying
–“It’s concerning that a member of this board has recorded conversations with former employees, but they don’t want a research team from an academic institution to be able to use recordings to help develop their reports,” – a public commenter at King George’s board of supervisors meeting. The speaker was referring to recordings of recently departed fire department personnel made by board chair T.C. Collins.
Pressing on (a look at the week ahead)
-We take a look back at 50 years of carpooling in the region with GWRideConnect.
