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Rappahannock Political Forum 09
Local bloggers are coming to the rescue of local politics again this year in the form of the Bloggers Forum 09. Yours truly is one of several panel members participating in this event to showcase those running for Stafford and Spotsylvania VA superrvisor positions. For more info, click the banner to the right of the [...]
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ChristianCollegeGuide.net sent us a 32 page full color glossy magazine full of ads for small Christian colleges across the land. (We are ignoring the target marketing fail here. That is a whole ‘nother post) Check out the Photoshop job on the back cover. The back cover! I used to work in printing. That is the [...]
Took my lunch break today to go through the Free Lance-Star archives from January 1, 2006 through today looking at all the stories on the Courts project. Thought it would be interesting to see the comments made by the members on the Council majority wh…
Amazon S3 is Amazon’s cloud storage service. At .15 per gigabyte, 50GB will cost me $7.50 a month, versus $20 for Dropbox or UbuntuOne. And odds are those services are planting your data on Amazon servers anyway! It’s a damn good deal for redundant storage. Both of these services give you 2 GB for free, [...]
Craft beer fans, and fun-loving folks in general, will have two opportunities to celebrate Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg this month. (Yes, the Munich Oktoberfest actually does start in September.)
On September 18, the Fredericksburg Capital Ale House…
Syndicated From: Andrew Flusche, Fredericksburg Lawyer / Attorney
Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles isn’t infallible. And neither are their computers. In fact, they’re just as fallible and prone to problems as the rest of us. The current computer outage they’re having highlights that in a painful way for people needing to renew their license right now. Apparently you’re in for a long wait. [...]
Syndicated From: Andrew Flusche, Fredericksburg Lawyer / Attorney
Some of my clients end up doing community service due to their traffic cases, whether it is court ordered or simply in preparation for trial. One question many of them have is: what counts as community service? Court community service must be done at a non-profit organization. This means that you cannot simply volunteer for [...]
I appreciate the readers who have been kind enough to read this blog at this website. Starting tomorrow (September 1st) I will continue to post over at this site if you’d care to follow along. Thanks again!
2004 Remington VA F3 tornado from remnants of Ivan Given the parade of disturbances emerging off the African coast and trudging across the Atlantic we may yet get a chance at chasing the remnants of a tropical system. Two successful such chases t…
That’s a very real question given the current synoptic setup. With the dry high pressure currently overhead we’ll be lucky to even see clouds the next couple of days, much less some needed rain. Then Earl approaches the East Coast the latte…
Desserts! We need more desserts on this blog! This simple recipe for No-Bake Peanut Butter Balls is a cinch to make. However, this blog entry comes with a warning: Readers beware that it is hard to eat just one of these no-bake peanut butter balls…
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Local Bloggers Pass 4,000 Posts!Today marks a milestone of sorts. Actually it’s more of a surprise. I was checking some stats and FBurgNews.com has logged more than 4000 posts from local Fredericksburg, VA area bloggers. Way to go team!
As we grow together, I’m working on changes to the website to group blogs. You’ll all still end up in the [...]
City Taxes Going UP-UP-UP
For those of you that vote in Fredericksburg VA, here’s who you can thank for higher real estate taxes.
Councilwoman Greenlaw made the final motion to raise the rate to $0.705 of every $100. That’s almost 26% percent. It was seconded by Vice-Mayor Devine.
Councilman Kelly put forward an alternative $.68 of every $100. It was seconded [...]
A few blog changes
First, a new addition. http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ is a photographic view of Fredericksburg, with a bit of history about those places appearing in the shots.
Death of a blog, that’s what happens when things start getting out of hand when ‘friends’ take posts in a direction not intended. Of course I’m talking about the Fred Vegas Chronicles. Fredericksburg’s very own [...]
Kindle Mania! Fredericksburg Hits the Big Time
Now get the area’s hottest news delivered direct to your Amazon Kindle! FburgNews.com tries to bring together a diverse set of blogging content, and it is now available in more formats than ever.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029U2X8Q
Hopefully they will drop the price to make getting the local inside story more affordable.
New Area Blogs
Today we’ve added two interesting new blogs to fburgnews.com. From the guy that seems to know a lot about the underground in Fredericksburg, we have Fred Vegas Chronicles (http://Fred Vegaschronicles.blogspot.com/) and from regular storm chaser Storms R Us, we’re adding his local Fredericksburg weather blog (http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/). Enjoy reading posts from these two exciting blogs.
Events
Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg, TwiceCraft beer fans, and fun-loving folks in general, will have two opportunities to celebrate Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg this month. (Yes, the Munich Oktoberfest actually does start in September.)
On September 18, the Fredericksburg Capital Ale House…
Fredericksburg Alert Online
A new service from the city alerts residents to city events, status and more.Visit https://www.fredericksburgalert.com/ to register to receive txts, email or get a pager notice for a variety of notices from the city. (A pager, what’s that again?) Alrea…
City Pool
Probably one of the best family benefit of living in the city is the Dixon park pool. From friendly staff, to fun children’s area, to a mini-water slide, this has to be one of the funnest items in the inventory of city parks. And the best part for peop…
2010 Fredericksburg Fair Pictures
Virginia Tax Free Holiday
It’s here again. It’s Virginia’s tax free holiday for school supplies and clothing. The holiday runs from Friday, August 6 – Sunday, August 8, 2010. Each eligible school item must be priced at $20 or less and each clothing and footwear item must be priced at $100 or less. Eligible School Supplies: Binder pockets Binders [...]
