Police Blotter

Prince William County police reported two death investigations with no preliminary signs of foul play, including a 27-year-old man found unconscious Sept. 21 in a vehicle at the Promenade shopping center near Manassas and a 30-year-old woman found unconscious Sept. 20 in a vehicle on Penbury Court in Woodbridge. The same county report said officers obtained a robbery warrant for Derek Matthew Powlowsky, 22, of Woodbridge, after a Sept. 16 meeting in Dumfries arranged over a cell-phone sale. Stafford County deputies said they arrested Michael Drozdowicz, 48, of Fredericksburg, for public intoxication at an inn on Warrenton Road and Christopher Beckner Jr., 29, of Fredericksburg, for disorderly conduct and obstruction after a disturbance at the Stafford County Courthouse. Manassas City police asked the public for help locating Joseph Levi Petracca, 27, last seen in the Manassas area Sept. 21.


Manassas

Manassas City Council spent Monday night on what a November First Friday might look like after the city and Historic Manassas Inc. already paused the October event. There was no vote.

Vice Mayor Mark D. Wolfe presided. While not present Monday, Mayor Michelle Davis-Younger remains in office through Sept. 30.


Event

Manassas Latino Festival is the oldest Hispanic/Latino, family-centric festival in the area! Held during National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), join in the celebrations with live music, dance performances, diverse foods, and fun for the whole family! Come enjoy this premier annual tradition filled with cultural heritage and contributions of the Latin American community.


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The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission voted Thursday, Sept. 3, to move its next OmniRide budget handoff up a month and to replace its December regular meeting with a Friday retreat at George Mason University.

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Virginia Railway Express will keep running through Amtrak’s October shutdown of Union Station, but the last stop will be L’Enfant Plaza, not the marble hall two stations later.

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Crews start work Wednesday on a $4.7 million project to change how Route 1 meets Augustine Avenue, Stafford Avenue, and College Avenue / Eagle Village Drive in the City of Fredericksburg.

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Prince William supervisors take public comment today on shrinking the county’s data-center overlay and on Dominion’s Vint Hill substation upgrade, Spotsylvania planners recommended a 555-acre Amazon campus, and Prince William schools posted 2027 graduation dates.

According to InsideNoVa, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors holds a public hearing today, Sept. 22, on a zoning text amendment that would shrink the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District and end by-right data center approvals countywide. Future projects would need a special use permit from the board. The overlay dates to May 2016.


Fredericksburg

The University of Mary Washington cancelled the public 7th Congressional District debate that was set for 7 p.m. Tuesday in Dodd Auditorium.

UMW said Monday evening it had learned Republican candidate Doug Ollivant was no longer available on the rescheduled date. With candidates from both major parties unavailable, the school said the event could not go forward in the format it had planned.


Police Blotter

Prince William County police said a 24-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint Sept. 20 in the 10600 block of Davidson Place near Manassas after a man in a grey sedan brandished a firearm and took the victim’s backpack.

The same report said two men were assaulted and robbed Sept. 19 in the 8400 block of Sudley Road near Manassas by three people who fled on foot. Medics treated the victims on scene.