The week’s top stories
-President Trump’s mass deportation efforts aren’t just headlines anymore to community leaders concerned about protecting undocumented immigrants, Taft Coghill Jr. writes.
-Will the Caroline County Board of Supervisors get permission to withdraw water from the Rappahannock? Only time will tell, Coghill reports from Richmond.
-The Caroline Sheriff’s Office with an assist from the Fredericksburg Police Department has arrested a fourth suspect in connection with a fatal shooting downtown last month.
-Lots of life is about the relationships we build. Even in local government when you’re talking about budgets worth millions of dollars, Spotsylvania County schools Superintendent Clint Mitchell said last week. Coghill has the story.
-Data centers continue to be on the agendas of governments and on the minds of many people in the region. Residents asked myriad questions about the details of development plans in Fredericksburg last week, Joey LoMonaco reports.
Go figures (Numbers that made the news)
–7.9 million, square feet of data center buildings proposed for the GWV Data Center project near Interstate 95’s Courthouse Road interchange in Stafford County. The applicant is Andrew Garrett of The Garrett Companies, a prominent developer in the region. Biz Beat’s Bill Freehling has the background.
Pressing on (a look at stories in the week ahead)
You can bet that news will be made Tuesday. Fredericksburg’s City Council meets, as do the boards of supervisors in Spotsylvania, Caroline and Stafford counties. Stafford’s school superintendent also will present his budget for the next fiscal year to the locality’s School Board.
Sunday long read
Watching Doug Williams win a Super Bowl for Washington set into motion a life of rabid fandom for Spotsylvania resident Stephen Boyd. Better known as the Commanders’ rally captain, he’ll lead a contingent of fans in Philadelphia, where the team will look to book its first trip to the Super Bowl since the 1990s. Taft Coghill Jr. caught up with the viral chronicler of Washington’s improbable playoff run.
