University of Mary Washington News

Frank and Teresa Fair of Culpeper, Douglas L. Bennett Jr. of Culpeper, and Debbie Bennett of Culpeper, announce the engagement of their daughter, Tiffany Dawn Bennett, to Matthew Garry Johnson, son of Garry and Karen Johnson of Spotsylvania County .

What's the latest on the Giant in Eagle Village? Some UMW students need a class in parallel parking * Who is responsible for ticketing parallel parkers on College Avenue? Web chat put focus on health * MediCorp CEO Fred Rankin answers questions on health care Major city intersection to close tonight * Main entrance to Eagle Village, formerly Park & ...

That's her brother, Keith, a freshman at James River High School, in some of the photos.

The University of Mary Washington is not stopping its expansion with the Eagle Village property in the Park and Shop shopping center.

The University of Mary Washington's nonprofit foundation has purchased a Pizza Hut across from the Fredericksburg campus and two houses nearby.

Parents raising children with disabilities need a break. Future teachers need to know how to educate those children.

In this season of Santa Claus and little elves, let me suspend belief and make a wish list of how to spend the mysterious $6.2 million dollar surplus that the county has discovered.

It wasn't your typical gathering to find new ways to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

Just three days before the Salahis allegedly crashed the state dinner at the White House, there was an uninvited guest at another of the highest profile buildings in Washington.

The University of Mary Washington has finally received its first shipment of H1N1 vaccine and will be offering shots to its students this week.

A University of Mary Washington philanthropy class has distributed $10,000 to help homeless and low-income people in the Fredericksburg area.

I guess it's officially the holiday season now. A reminder: the deadline is fast approaching for donating to the University of Mary Washington's annual effort to help Head Start Children.

A daily digest of what's going on in Fredericksburg, and what news from elsewhere is relevant here.

Drema Khraibani has a passion to teach children. Because of a unique program, "Today's Students, Tomorrow's Teachers," the 2009 honors graduate from Freedom High School and current freshman at the University of Mary Washington is closer than ever to achieving her dream.

Four-year colleges and universities located within the District of Columbia increased tuition and fees by an average of 3.2 percent for the 2009-2010 academic year.

The third county-wide Middlesex County Hall of Fame induction was held November 8 at Friendship Baptist Church in Hartfield.

You want to be a renegade. Take a great idea and run with it, before everyone can ask what you are doing, and then explain it all later.A This is a much better operating mode than asking for permission.A Far more can be accomplished in a shorter period of time, and often with unexpected and wonderful results.

Students at the University of Mary Washington aren't just learning about philanthropy - they're practicing it.

When University of Mary Washington seniors Kelly Landau and Dave Moore started their morning yesterday, they weren't leisurely sipping coffee or checking e-mails from friends.

The University of Mary Washington is weighing a midyear tuition increase to help offset drastic state funding cuts.