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Data Stream Mobile Technologies is seeking more than $25 million in compensation, plus additional damages, from Fauquier County for “defamation” and “business conspiracy,” according to a lawsuit filed June 30

Business and government partnership promises fiber optic service to 10,000 remote Fauquier locations by 2024

Supervisors reject proposed solar farm near Bealeton Pennsylvania-based Dynamic Energy lost its bid to build the solar farm just east of Route 17, south of Bealeton. When I looked at this, I didn’t want to take solid farmland out of production. Those are good soils on that property. For me, I do not want to see that removed from farming. — Supervisor Rick Gerhardt (Cedar Run District) By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Staff Journalist Fauquier’s boar...

Supervisors celebrate 2020 “Citizens of the Year” The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors 2020 Citizens of the Year (clockwise from top left): John Meadows, Steve von Elten, Donald “Duke” Yowell, Mark Deane and April Achter. By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Staff Journalist Fauquier’s board of supervisors Thursday night honored its Citizens of the Year — one from each the county’s five magisterial districts. The ceremony normally...

This story has been updated to reflect new information. Members of the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Thursday to allow transitional housing at some rural church properties; there were no speakers at the public hearing except for a representative of one of the organizations that requested the change to the zoning law. Last month, planning commissioners voted unanimously to recommend approval of the zoning ordinance amendment. The ordinance amendment allows “transiti...