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| Culpeper Star-Exponent | News and Messenger | Stafford County Sun |
Thursday, May 21, 2009DES JournalFor the week ending May 9, Fort Belvoir’s Directorate of Emergency Services reported the following: Cemetery clean-up honors those who came before usAt 6 a.m. Saturday, CWO2 Clint Harris began mowing Woodlawn Cemetery while his son, Jason, raked leaves. By 8 a.m. about 50 others had joined him from Fort Belvoir, Woodlawn United Methodist Church and Fort Belvoir Elementary School. They were there to clean the cemetery and honor veterans buried there by placing flags at each headstone in honor of Memorial Day. Route 1 design public hearing set for TuesdayAfter the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Woodlawn Road and Beulah Street were closed to public use through Fort Belvoir. In a cooperative effort, the Virginia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Fairfax County and the U.S. Army will construct a replacement road that will extend and widen existing Old Mill Road, now named Mulligan Road, from Route 1 (Richmond Highway) to Telegraph Road through Fort Belvoir. Sales tax holiday for emergency itemsFrom Monday to May 31, no Virginia sales tax will be charged on the purchase of many items that can be used to prepare homes for hurricane and flood season and to fill emergency supply kits. Hot summer expected at Wood TheaterSummer fun is around the corner and part of that excitement revolves around what movies will be hitting the big screen this year. Eagle Spotlight: Tim GraysonQ/A SKIES RecitalThey ranged from tiny dancers to talented teen ballerinas and from the classical to the contemporary. Thursday, May 14, 2009Power outages scheduled for Belvoir Village on Wednesday, June 2Scheduled power outages will affect homes in Belvoir Village from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Officials identify Camp Liberty shooting victimsDefense Department officials released the names of five Soldiers killed in a shooting at a combat stress clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq Monday. Gates expresses horror, regret over base slayingsDefense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the DoD will devote its “highest-priority attention” to Monday’s slaying of five U.S. servicemembers in Baghdad. |

