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Our 207th year | Vol. 207, No. 27 | www.Fauquier.com | $2.00 VIRGINIA PRESS ASSOCIATION: BEST SMALL NEWSPAPER IN VIRGINIA 2017-2023
Educational program for residents aims to build trust, transparency
Police and sheriff’s office launch joint community academy
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Bernard Northan Jr. (left), of Bealeton and a participant in the Community Joint Academy program, watches Sgt. Lance Davenport of the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office fly a law enforcement drone on June 18, 2024.
By Megan Rudacille Contributing Writer
To offer an up-close look at local law enforcement, the Warrenton Police Department and the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office collaborated this spring to launch the Joint Community Academy. It’s another way to give the community a window into the work of law enforcement, said Captain Kristi Kiernan of the sheriff’s office. “It’s about letting people know that we are humans,” she said, “that we are just like they are, what we do and that we’re here to help them. The Joint Community Academy is a nine-week educational course available to Fauquier County residents that covers the various programs, duties and units of the Warrenton Police and the county sheriff’s department. Along with lessons from officials from the two See ACADEMY, page 4
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First Saturdays were launched in 2023 by the restaurant Craft & Crust, with support from Remington Town Council. This year’s series began Saturday, June 1.
A quiet rebirth is underway in Remington
The small town is building community with events and amenities By Aimee O’Grady Contributing Writer
One of the best-kept secrets in Fauquier County in 2024 may just be the under-the-radar revival in the Town of Remington. Remington, made up of only four blocks in each direction and with a 2022 U.S. Census population of 836, is quietly nestled on the county’s back end along the road to Culpeper. Its residents mostly work for the town or local businesses if they don’t commute to jobs in nearby communities. But after a leadership transition following the death of Gerald Billingsley, a fatherly figure who served as mayor for most of three decades, new leaders have had to find their way forward. And they have.
Children and Fauquier County residents watch a paratrooper land after skydiving above the annual Warrenton Town Limits Festival on Friday, June 28. STAFF PHOTO/ FLORENCE SHEN
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