Bowling Green elects new mayor and four town council members; Port Royal elects town council.

Bowling Green elects new mayor and four town council members; Port Royal elects town council.
Registrars in Fredericksburg and in Stafford and King George counties said their offices saw fewer voters than they did four years prior.
The race was decided by just over 8,000 votes with 342,423 total ballots cast, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
The Commonwealth hasn’t elected a Republican to the upper chamber since 2002.
Turnout big on both sides of the aisle; minor technical glitch in White Oak resolved without issue.
In 2023, Fredericksburg had the fifth-highest total of provisional ballots of any locality in Virginia.
The young and not-so-young experienced civic firsts on Tuesday.
Here, you’ll find updates from polling places across the region, live reports from the Derrick Anderson and Eugene Vindman camps in the evening, and interviews with local pols-in-the-know to help put results into context.
Kainat Ali will join body that advises governor on education policy.
The Director of UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies and area’s preeminent political scientist, sat down for a conversation over locally-roasted coffee.
When state legislators return to Richmond in January to convene the General Assembly, Fredericksburg city officials will be watching.
City Public Information Officer Sonja Canta tells us about the new location.
A bond referendum on the ballot in King George asks if residents support building a new $57 million preK-5 elementary school.
Department of Environmental Quality officials request additional information before moving forward with the permit process.
Appeal to high court was launched after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months.
Workers held informational picket held in opposition to a tentative agreement reached last week between the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and USPS.
New art on the first floor of the Executive Plaza at 601 Caroline Street.
Two agencies–USDA Rural Development and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development– selected Colonial Beach to announced a new phase of the Rural Community Development Initiative that aims to boost economic growth in small towns.
Numbers are high, if slightly down from 2020 cycle.