FXBG Advance Friday, June 12, 2026
What We Leave Behind. Hunger Increasing in Fredericksburg Area. Ways to Save—Electricity and the Planet. A News Round-Up Headline That Riffs on a Beatles Song.
Domestic Violence Memorial Vigil for Stephanie Myers
Photo by Lili Watkins
Read Saturday’s Advance for story, more photographs, and commentary: “Our Hubris. Our Arrogance. Our Delusions. Our Guns.”
What’s Left After We Trash the Place
By Ranjit Singh, Advance Columnist
The creek near my house in Stafford is full of tires, clothes, plastic bags, abandoned crab pots and fishing nets, soda bottles, COVID masks, and anything else that people can leave behind, throw out, or let blow into a substantial body of water. A good low tide is an adventure. You might see plastic oil bottles, a shoe or hat, maybe even an outboard motor like the one that fell off our sailboat when I was a kid. Moving upstream through Crow’s Nest Natural Area Preserve towards Brooke Road, the creek’s flow is much disturbed by bridges, roadwork, a dam, and the wide, clear-cut easements of the Dominion Energy company’s powerlines.
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Food Worries Increasing in the Fredericksburg Area
By Hank Silverberg, Advance Correspondent
50,000 Served in the Past Year. And with Rising Inflation and Federal Program Cuts, the Problem, and the Need, are Getting Worse.
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Summertime, and the Energy Savings Are Easy
By Bruce Saller, Advance Contributor
With the summer heat arriving along with higher summer electricity rates, now is a good time to try to reduce your electricity usage. Try these ten life hacks. Your bank account, and the Earth, will thank you.
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Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away’s News Today
VaNews/Virginia Public Access Project
Stories from newspapers throughout the Commonwealth and Washington D.C. Firewalls will block you from reading some, but you’ll at least have some idea about what’s going on from the headlines, which, let’s be honest, are all many of us have time to read anyway.
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