Lake Ridge, Va. — Though art education has, in a sense, fallen to the wayside in recent years, a local artist wants to change that.
Author: Potomac Local News
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Woodbridge, Va. — The owners of a Woodbridge jewelry store are now the owners of jewelry worn by Elizabeth Taylor.
Jenny and John Caro recently went to New York City to purchase a necklace and two pairs of earrings from Taylor’s collection, reports Patch.com.
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North Stafford, Va. — It’s taken five electrical breakers, years of effort, 138 extension cords, and more than 30 hours of programing to bring a holiday lights display to Springlake Drive.
North Stafford, Va. – Some might want to look twice, perhaps up, before they use a public restroom.
Stafford sheriff deputies said they caught a man who was in the ceiling on Sunday peeping on women while they were in the bathroom stall at Giant Food in the Doc Stone shopping center. The woman, a store employee, looked up and saw a hand sticking out of the ceiling. So she ran out the bathroom, grabbed a manager, brought them into the manager who told the man to come down but got no response, said Stafford sheriff spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Woodbridge, Va. — Two men from Maryland are charged in a robbery at a popular convenience store in Woodbridge on Nov. 30.
The U.S. Marshall’s Fugitive Taskforce located one of the suspects in the robbery in Timonium, Md. on Wednesday, about 80 miles north of where the robbery took place at the Handy Dandy Market on Occoquan Road. That arrest led to the capture of another man Thursday in Prince George’s County, Md., said police.
Woodbridge, Va. — Pregnant women in the Potomac Communities with similar due dates have a new option for prenatal care.
The Greater Prince William Community Health Center in Woodbridge launched its first “CenteringPregnancy” this month and is now looking for members of a new group forming now for January.
Woodbridge, Va. — The grand court at Potomac Mills mall has come a long way since the days of large plastic apples sitting in an oversized cereal bowl filled with water. While the decorative bowl of apples has been missing from the mall for years, Potomac Mills on Thursday unveiled a new children’s play place in the grand court modeled after landmarks in Virginia.
It includes a 17th century ship, cardinals depicting the state bird, Chesapeake blue crabs, George Washington and his fabled cherry tree.
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Triangle, Va. — There was some hair-raising moments this morning for two people that became stuck in an elevator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Fire and rescue crews were called to the museum about 9:40 a.m. after the freight elevator got stuck. Two people were inside the elevator car for about 10 minutes before fire crews and an elevator repairman were able to help get the elevator car moving again and occupants out, said museum spokeswoman Gwenn Adams.
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Tourism officials and the Virginia Department of Transportation entered into an agreement that would allow the county to place several blue signs, large signs on major roads and small ones on by ways, featuring the county’s logo and a depiction of a young George Washington.
Of the large, or monument, signs that will be placed at major gateways into the county such as Interstate 95 and at the Fredericksburg line, they will now stand on two large posts and not stone bases as was originally planned. The changes were requested by VDOT in fears the stone bases could be hazardous to motorists in the event of a crash.
North Stafford, Va. — Parking is about to improve at Smith Lake Park in North Stafford.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the addition of 138 new spaces at the popular park. Though the park has five athletic fields, four can be used at one time because of the lack of adequate parking.