Advance Evening News
This evening, local delegates are appointed to an emergency General Assembly committee to respond to federal job loss, groups come together to donate home repairs to local veteran, and EV stations.
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- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Local Delegates Appointed to Emergency Committee to Study Impacts to Virginia of Federal Workforce Reductions
By Adele Uphaus
“This is just the start,” Cole said. “There’s more that I believe we can do, and I want us to be proactive, not reactive. I’m constantly having conversations with the speaker about what I’m hearing.”
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The Executive Order Project - Transportation: Planned Fredericksburg-area EV Charging Stations at Risk
Three planned area charging stations are affected by Department of Transportation move to temporarily suspend funding of state-approved projects.
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Local Groups Come Together to Donate Home Repairs to a Veteran
By Adele Uphaus
The donation, which represented almost all of what the Foundation had in its budget to give, was to fund the repairs at Nate Emery’s Stafford home. Emery, a veteran of the Marine Corps, had been unable to work as a result of his post-traumatic stress disorder, and had been without hot water and HVAC at his house.
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