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The Free Lance–Star is the principal daily newspaper distributed throughout Fredericksburg,Virginia,United States,with a circulation area including the city of Fredericksburg and all or parts of the counties of Spotsylvania,Stafford,King George,Caroline,Culpeper,Fauquier,Louisa,Orange,Prince William and Westmoreland. The Free Lance was first published on January 27,1885,when Col. John W. Woltz and William E. Bradley founded the paper as a twice-weekly publication to serve the news and advertising needs of the community. A one-year subscription that first year cost $1.50. In 1900,the Free Lance operation merged with its competitor,The Fredericksburg Daily Star. The two papers continued to be published separately until 1926 when,under the leadership of Josiah P. Rowe Jr.,they were combined into The Free Lance–Star,a single newspaper published 6 days a week.