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🌱 How Spotsylvania’s new 45% data-center cap could affect your area

Also check out Wilderness Fall Festival & Car Show on the Spotsylvania Courthouse Patch calendar

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Spotsylvania's new 45% data-center cap could affect your area
  • What jurors are hearing in Spotsylvania's high-profile teen murder trial

Also on today's calendar: Wilderness Fall Festival & Car Show and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Humid; heavy p.m. t-storms, with a high of 87 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 85, low: 65.
  • Saturday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 83 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Spotsylvania supervisors vote on limit to Industrial land dedicated to data centers (fredericksburgfreepress.com) — Spotsylvania County supervisors just capped data centers at 45% of all industrial-zoned land, signaling a clear slowdown for new projects that could affect nearby neighborhoods and resources. The 3–2 vote, with one supervisor absent and one seat vacant, follows strong resident pushback and means only about 2,773 more industrial acres can be used for future data centers unless the board revisits the limit.
   

• Trial opens in Spotsylvania murder case over teenage prank (fredericksburg.com) — Jurors have begun hearing sharply conflicting accounts in a Spotsylvania murder trial over the shooting death of an 18-year-old county high school senior, reportedly tied to a teenage prank gone wrong. The case, involving a Spotsylvania man accused of firing the fatal shots, is drawing close attention from local families concerned about youth safety and gun use in neighborhood disputes.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Thursday August 27
  • LGPS Bus Evacuation Drill - Rear Exit
    Locust Grove Primary School Locust Grove, VA 22508
    8:45 am
  • Girls' Basketball @ FTB (Tournament)
    Locust Grove Middle 205 Grandview Ave, Culpeper, VA 22701, USA
    5:00 pm
  • Girls' Basketball -Away
    Locust Grove Middle 205 Grandview Ave, Culpeper, VA 22701, USA
    5:00 pm
    • Friday August 28
  • Reptiles Alive! →
    Lake Anna State Park, 6800 Lawyers Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse
    2:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • REMINDER: Milestone Towers Community Meeting for Proposed 195' Monopole.
    WHEN: Wednesday, August 26, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Salem Church Public Library Meeting Room, located at 2607 Salem Church Road,… (Nextdoor )
  • i9 Sports posted a job opening for Sport Coordinator Flag Football in Fredericksburg. Apply here.
  • Chick-fil-A posted a job opening for Back of House Team Member in Fredericksburg. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Spotsylvania Courthouse here.

🗞 Nearby News

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells. (Thank you Jean D. for sending it in!)
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