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It's Thursday, May 8, 2025. This morning, Mary Washington Hospital receives no grade on most-recent LeapFrog report, and History Thursday brings us to 309 Wolfe Street. Also - 20% off sale extended.
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Stafford Hospital Receives A Safety Rating; Mary Washington Hospital "Not Graded"
By Adele Uphaus
Leapfrog released the Spring 2025 hospital safety grades this week.
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History Thursday: 309 Wolfe Street
By Adele Uphaus
The ownership history of the lots that combined into this address includes both a formerly enslaved man; then a man who owned slaves and sold them to pay off a loan; and finally the trustees of Mount Zion Baptist Church, one of Fredericksburg’s historic Black churches.
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