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Children between the ages of five and 17 are making good use of open gym. During the week, gym time is made available to members to play basketball and keep their skills sharp for the Fall League and there is already a buzz in the air about the upcoming season.
UPDATE ON ARRESTS — FROM POLICE REPORTS
Burglary While Armed | Malicious Wounding *ARREST – On September 12th, arrests were made in connection to the stabbing which occurred in the 3700 block of Del Mar Dr in Woodbridge from September 11th.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A work session for the Prince William County School Board originally set for Wednesday night is postponed until September. 19.
The session will follow the regularly scheduled 6 p.m. meeting of the School Board on Wednesday, Sept. 19. According to an agenda, the work session will begin at 9 p.m. and cover items on the school system’s five-year plan.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College is closed after a sprinkler system malfunctioned.
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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A senior citizen was nearly taken for $3,000 during a would-be phone scam before authorities stepped in.
Stafford County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Courtman was called to a home on Smithfield Way in south Stafford on Monday after a woman received a phone call from what appeared to be her female friend stating she was in jail. The woman told the victim she was jailed in Fairfax County after running a red traffic light and colliding with at least one other car, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — A fall festival brought together Virginia’s first town on Saturday as about 40 vendors lined up in Garrison Park behind Town Hall.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Residents of Dumfries tonight will have their say on a plan that could allow a debris landfill to grow in piles of up to 310 feet tall.
A public hearing will be held tonight at six o’clock at Town Hall on Main Street where residents have been invited to speak about a request from the operators of the Potomac Landfill to town officials to allow the landfill to increase the height of their debris piles from 195 feet to 310 feet.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Family, friends, co-workers and members of area fire and police departments gathered this Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Woodbridge on Minnieville Road to pay their respects to former OWL Volunteer Fire Department Chief Richard “Ricky” Arrington.
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — At 102, Doris Woodring reckons she’s the oldest participant in this month’s 2012 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics (NVSO). The resident at Westminster at Lake Ridge will compete for her first time in scrabble on Sept. 24 at the Lincolnia Senior Citizen’s Center.
“I’m pretty sure I’ll be the oldest Olympian,” says the resident at Westminster. “Scrabble keeps my mind alert. I still do my own finances, you know.”
