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School board Dems nominate Joshuathousands Cole to saves runcopier in 28thservice District on
NEW TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON GARRISONVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET
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Motorists traveling along the western segment of the four-lane section of Garrisonville Road have yet another traffic light to control vehicle flow. At the intersection of the main east-west artery in North Stafford and North Stafford Complex, workers installed lights to control access to the shopping complex that will house Wal-Mart, a Goodwill store and a self-storage facility. Wal-Mart did not respond to requests for an expected store opening date, but the traffic lights will be functioning this weekend. ALEKS DOLZENKO | INSIDENOVA
Supervisors approve two drive-thrus in North Stafford
Locally harvested produce gets prime display as crowds browse and shop the stand operated by C&T Produce at the North TowneFarmers’ Center at Aquia aiming coffofee or donut shop;toSteak coming tothe610 Stafford Market. This year the total for number vendors has increased around‘n 30Shake at the same location, parking lot of the Stafford Medical Pavilion on the Stafford Hospital campus. The market is open Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. BY TRACY BELL “We get criticized for having blight in speak for many residents in Aquia until November. ALEKS DOLZENKO | INSIDENOVA tbell@insidenova.com
TStafford seeks funding for 100 body cameras wo planned drive-thrus got the OK from the Stafford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday – one is set for The Towne Center at Aquia and the other is planned off Garrisonville Road near the Valero gas station. The business on Route 610 will be a Steak ‘n Shake, according to discussion, and the BELL drive-thru at The Towne TRACY Centertbell@insidenova.com at Aquia does not have a set tenant. However, the building ide-’s he Stafford County will Sheriff ally be usedOffice for ahas coffapplied ee shopfor such as a U.S. Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks. Department of Justice grant The board voted unanimously in fathat could fund 100 of its vor of a conditional-use permit for the deputies with a body camtown center’s drive-thru. “We’d beera. crazy to say no to this apIf received, full funding of the plication, ” said Supervisor Paul Milde, grant would allow deputies in the R-Aquia. office’s fieldthat operations to Milde added the boarddivision has “tried carry to thegenerate cameras.interest in Aquia so hard sheriff office applied for TowneThe Center, ” as it’swas formerly named, grantstumbling after the Stafford but the hit many blocks. County Boardsoofmany Supervisors stamp With delays gave and its setbacks over years, Milde said, “I know I can
Harbour, saying that they’d rather see the county and now we’re improving it this than wait another 12 years. … I’m and still being criticized. It’s not the right thing to do. For some people, you can happy to support this.” Public hearings were held on both never satisfy them. In this case, I think drive-thru proposals, with several we’re making the right decision,” he said. The space was previously a Goodwill people speaking on each matter to oppose them. The board discussed con- store, later demolished. Now it’s a parkcerns for the town center’s drive-thru, ing lot adjacent to the Aquia 15 Apartincluding hours, noise, proximity to ments. Supervisor Robert Thomas, R-George apartments and lighting. investigations andboard comofOne approval. Thewho grant works as a 50 Washington, said that the doesn’t speaker, lives in Aquia Har- internal is significant, ” Decatur percent match with local have the authority to “go pick asaid. café.” bour, wanted a sit-down caféfunding instead of plaints cameras are acomes psychothe county. The costHe to told Staf-the “Body-worn “The private sector in and afrom drive-thru establishment. deterrent to misbehavior ford isthat $400,000 a year for five years. logical has to find something that willonturn a board the town center is “supposed sides of the lens. The benefitsto the Stafford County Sheriff Da-” both profi t while providing a service to be a cut above, something different. the drawbacks associated vid Decatur told that s- exceed citizens, ” Th omas said. “…Th is is a very Supervisor Jack InsideNoVa Cavalier, R-Griffi the cost parcel. and time to manage implementing a body-camera constrained I think the choice is, Widewater, pointed out that theproprop- with program. gramtoiscome a vastisundertaking. Thethe goalrest theeither spur”some sort of development on erty separate from the in technology de- to of the the development program is to that achieve a high the parcel front of us,inorthe continue of Mosaic pur- Using level offor transparency withand theseparate com- partment’s look at a field dirt, operations weed-filled division eyesore. … If chased development, the most which immedimunity protecting the rights would thoseallow are thefor two choices, I believe from thewhile adjacent apartments. andare, expansive of“Th citizens and are deputies it’s beencontact a long with time the that that ese things marketalike, driven,he ” he atethey served,there De- with no ideas. So said. “This is probably the best we’re community lot’s been sitting said. said. “…The of ”having video catur I tend to be in favor of it.” CAMERA going to dobenefit at this site. DRIVE13 af ford ounty5-2 PAGE footage forcalled prosecution, boardCvoted Cavalier the area training, a “blighted St The THRUS PAGE 13 shopping center and a redevelopment.” on a CPU for the Steak
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