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It's Saturday, October 25, 2025. Today, Halloween is Friday, and found-footage films will give you a chill, and the Best of the Week.

Editor’s Note: If you’re up early, grab the kids and come downtown for the Halloween Parade, sponsored by Fredericksburg Parent and Family, as well as the Advance. Adele Uphaus, her daughter Beatrix, Marty, and Leigh Anne will be there!

CLASSIC FILMS: Found-Footage Films

By Alan Herrmann

Horror movies come in a full range of subgenres. So-called found-footage films may be the creepiest of the bunch. Here are three to plug in this Halloween.

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The Best of the Week

Most Read

• No Kings Protest in Fredericksburg

Culture

• Witches of Fredericksburg: From Fear to Fun

• Inaugural Gail Braxton Distinguished Service Award Goes to Gail Braxton

• History Thursday: 923 Hanover Street

Education

• Alongside is “an App to Catch Kids Who Are Slipping Through the Cracks”

• A Memorial Garden to Children Gone too Soon Unites Spotsylvania

• FROM THE EDITOR: Politics Are Increasingly Polarized; a Parking Lot Can Help Us Understand the Problem

Government

• Government Closing Threatens November SNAP Benefits

• Planning Commission Receives Final Downtown Engineering Study, Review and Public Feedback Period Launched

• FROM THE EDITOR: This Is No Way to Run Economic Development

• Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney: Conservation Easement Issue Should Not Be Part of Supervisors’ Deliberations Around Caledon Solar Proposal

• River Crossing Project Seeks Public Feedback

Humor

• Fair Winds and Following Seas, Dr. Kilmartin

Opinion

• Of Crazy Crooks and Crazier Elections

Outdoors

• Our Rivers Run Through Here: Fly Fishing in Virginia

Local Obituaries

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