On Giving Tuesday, you will receive lots of appeals. Here’s why FXBG Advance is worth supporting: fearless, community-focused reporting you’ll find nowhere else in the 540.
In November, for example, our reporting was responsible for raising the public’s attention to Mary Becelia’s plight. A citizen member of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library board, Becelia was forced out by the Stafford Board of Supervisors in July. The Board claimed misconduct, but it never told Becelia.
When she discovered the action in August, she tried to get the Board to explain their actions. None would…. Until November, when she turned to the Advance and told her story.
The Advance dug the story out and published an article that pulled the curtain back on the Supervisors’ action. Not long thereafter, months of silence gave way to a flurry of apologies and explanations.
Without the Advance, Mary’s story and the Board’s action may have remained hidden.
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—Martin Davis
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