A fatal crash involving a pedestrian shut down the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 for about two hours on Monday night in Frederick County.
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George C. Hummer was named the 15th superintendent of Frederick County Public Schools on Tuesday, closing a months-long chapter when the division was conducting a search for its next leader.
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Despite a recent number of adoptions, Frederick County’s Esther Boyd Animal Shelter is crowded.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman J. Douglas McCarthy (Gainesboro District) is resigning from the panel, effective Jan. 20, according to a letter of resignation sent to county officials.
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The Wayside Inn in Middletown hopes to fashion itself into one of the premier wedding venues in the Shenandoah Valley.
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For the last two years, Stephens City painter Joe Gainer traversed the northern Shenandoah Valley in search of inspiration. What sparked his creative juices were abandoned farmhouses.
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A lease for a proposed daycare in the Frederick County-owned Sunnyside Plaza was denied by the Board of Supervisors on a 6-0 vote last week. Supervisor Douglas McCarthy (Gainesboro) was absent.
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As a teenager, country music singing legend Patsy Cline apparently had no idea how far her talent could take her.
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The Frederick County Board of Supervisors voted 5-1 to provide $55,000 in funding to Laurel Ridge Community College in 2023, roughly $37,000 less than the $92,094 requested by the college.
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Five new Frederick County Sheriff's Office deputies hit the streets last week after graduating on Nov. 22 from the Skyline Regional Criminal Justice Academy in Middletown.
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The property room at the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office is home to the cremated remains of 22 individuals.
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While local Frederick County elections last month were uneventful — seven incumbent candidates ran unopposed in two town races — voters will have much more to consider on the ballot next year.
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The Frederick County School Board will soon begin reviewing candidates and conducting interviews in closed session to fill its superintendent post.
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Frederick County Public Schools continues to push for the construction of a fourth high school to resolve student overcrowding issues.
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A Frederick County man will have to wait at least another two months before learning how much time he’ll spend in prison for killing 41-year-old Keith Hamilton Tolson of Front Royal.
The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the region during the coming weeks.
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STEPHENS CITY — A Stephens City man reportedly fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition during a five-hour standoff with law enforcement before being taken into custody late Wednesday night.
At Frederick County’s recent Transportation Forum, updates were given on several projects the county is seeking funding for via SmartScale — Virginia’s data-driven prioritization method to fund road projects.
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Rather than spending money on an additional audit of the school division, the Frederick County Board of Supervisors says it will work with school officials to obtain a more detailed budget ahead of budget season.
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All Points Broadband is hesitant to provide an exact timeline for its regional broadband project that will install 3,100 miles of fiber optic cable and bring high-speed internet to 41,000 locations across the northern Shenandoah Valley in 2025.
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The Frederick County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday granted the Metromont Corporation a request to rezone two parcels totaling 44.72 acres.
MIDDLETOWN — Get some of your holiday shopping done at Belle Grove Plantation's Kris Kringle Market this weekend.
Town Council candidates in Stephens City and Middletown cruised to victory on Tuesday, as they were all incumbents who ran unopposed.
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A draft candidate profile for Frederick County Public Schools’ next superintendent was presented on Tuesday to school board members.
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The Frederick County Board of Supervisors will hold a work session to ensure no county tax dollars were spent on Lord Fairfax Community College's recent name change to Laurel Ridge Community College.
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A rebate on personal property taxes paid in 2022 was unanimously approved by the Frederick County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday.
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MIDDLETOWN — Kelly Jenkins’ front yard is the stuff of nightmares, filled with gigantic skeletons, a flying witch, tombstones and more terrifying visions.
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The Frederick County Planning Commission last week supported a conditional-use permit to relocate a dog breeding business to Hites Road in Middletown.
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Two people were killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday morning on Back Mountain Road (Route 600), bringing the number of traffic deaths to 11 this year in Frederick County.
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Frederick County School Board Chairman Brandon Monk has announced he is running for state Senate District 1 in November 2023.
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Frederick County officials hosted the first of two public meetings Tuesday night as they continue the process of updating the county's Northeast Land Use Plan (NELUP).
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A few days after BWP and Associates opened a survey that allows Frederick County residents to weigh in on the search for Frederick County Public Schools’ next superintendent, at least 1,000 responses had been received.
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WINCHESTER — A 19-year-old Frederick County man has pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of his grandmother.
The Belle Grove Plantation Escape Site has been accepted by the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
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WINCHESTER — When Katrina McClure became executive director of Winchester's nonprofit Sinclair Health Clinic in July 2019, she had no way of knowing that just eight months later, COVID-19 would compel her to re-evaluate all of the clinic's operations.
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WINCHESTER — Candidates running for election on Nov. 8 as well as those seeking the Republican nomination in 2023 were the focus of an event hosted by the Small Business Freedom Alliance on Wednesday morning at West Oaks Farm Market in Frederick County.
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WINCHESTER — People rarely consider the place where they live as a tourism hotspot, so they may be surprised to learn that tourists spent $260.3 million last year in Winchester and Frederick County.
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The Frederick County School Board voted Tuesday night to revisit the school division's dress code policy, focusing on the regulation that concerns the enforcement of dress code protocol.
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HARRISONBURG — Federal officials have announced the arrest and indictment of a Winchester man accused of planting a pipe bomb at Cedar Creek Battlefield near Middletown during the Oct. 14, 2017, reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek.
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Faced with a vastly smaller staff, rising costs and the potential of cutting ties with insurance companies in the coming years, Valley Health is considering its options for how to weather the economic impact sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Taxable real estate properties in Frederick County saw a 21% average increase this year because of a white-hot market, according to Frederick County Commissioner of Revenue Seth Thatcher.
On Thursday, the Our Valley Values Veterans event at Laurel Ridge Community College will welcome area employers to encourage them to hire veterans and their families.
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Input from residents is wanted as Frederick County Public Schools seeks a new superintendent.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday night unanimously supported giving taxpayers a rebate on their personal property tax bills.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors voted on Wednesday not to impose certain restrictions on short-term rentals leased through Airbnb and Vrbo.
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A 2016 Ford Fusion traveling the wrong way on Northwestern Pike (U.S. 50) on Thursday evening killed the two occupants of the vehicle and injured three people in another vehicle, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office.
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The Frederick County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday night unanimously supported giving taxpayers a rebate on their personal property tax bills.
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The Frederick County Board of Supervisors voted on Wednesday not to impose certain restrictions on short-term rentals leased through Airbnb and Vrbo.
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At least two traffic fatalities in the last month prompted a barrage of traffic stops in Frederick County as Sheriff Lenny Millholland called for heightened enforcement of traffic laws.
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Members of the Frederick County School Board had student dress code questions, concerns and proposals ready for administration Thursday night at the Student Conduct and Support Committee meeting.
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