Advance Evening News
In this evening's edition, Stafford Board meeting cancelled suddenly; Spotsy School Board to take up regs governing selection and review of library materials; and save Christmas for Stafford Junction.
Special Stafford Supervisors Meeting Cancelled Abruptly ...
By Martin Davis
... Mary Becelia, the citizen branded with misconduct and dismissed from the library board, was likely to be the subject of the meeting. What happens to her now is up in the air.
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Spotsylvania School Board to Consider Revised Regulation Governing Selection and Review of Library and Instructional Materials
By Adele Uphaus
Approval of the revised regulation is included in the consent agenda for the meeting. The revisions were recommended by a committee formed by the School Board in March of this year to look at the regulation and its governing policy, IIA, which establishes procedures for schools to identify and ensure parental notification of instructional materials with sexually explicit content.
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Last Year, Advance Readers Saved Christmas for Stafford Junction ...
By Martin Davis
... We're asking you to help us do it again!
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