Police Chief Charlie T. Deane is pleased announce the following promotions of sworn staff:
First Sergeant Javid C. Elahi to Lieutenant
Author: Potomac Local News
The mall’s management will ring in the opening of the new store with live music, giveaways and refreshments.
Located in the mall’s fashion district in neighborhood one, Tommy Bahama sells polo shirts, t-shirts, dresses, fragrances and swimwear.
The lawsuit comes after the county filed a similar lawsuit in March after DHS refused to release information about Carlos Martinelly Montano, an illegal immigrant charged in a alcohol-related traffic crash last year that killed a nun and injured two others. Montano, an illegal immigrant, had been arrested before in Manassas and turned over to DHS.
Prince officials say several Freedom of Information Act requests from the county to DHS asking for information on criminal records of illegal aliens turned over from the county to DHS prior to 2008 went unanswered.
Dumfries, Va. –– Daniel Taber, chief of the Dumfries police department, was voted in as the interim town manager during the town council meeting Aug. 2. The current town manager, Kim Alexander, is leaving to become the town manager for Culpeper.
Robert Forker, who is the police department’s administrative manager and second-in-command, will become interim police chief of Dumfries.
With the stroke of a pen on Tuesday, President Obama capped months of contentious wrangling over both the national debt and how the federal government spends its money. As is typical of many compromises, this one did not really satisfy anyone.
The result is that many of the hard decisions needed to truly get our fiscal house in order have been deferred to a later time. In this case, that later time is Thanksgiving, when a “super-committee” composed equally of House and Senate members, Republicans and Democrats, is to make recommendations on where to cut the budget to bring it in line with the $1.5 trillion in cuts the new law calls for. If the “super-committee” can’t agree on where to make those cuts, then they will be made automatically, 50 percent from the “security” side (which includes Defense spending) and 50 percent from entitlements (like Medicare).
Dumfries, Va. — The parchment paper background and tiny script is being replaced with an updated, sleeker look. The town of Dumfries has a new website.
MDA Technologies Group, LLC has created the new site, which is in the process of being beta-tested by a representative cross section of the community.
Harbor Station gets a buyer
It appears the long time on again off again Harbor Station development is back on track.
The Washington Business Journal reports the area outside Dumfries along the Potomac River, on the Cherry Hill Peninsula, has been acquired by California-based development firm SunCal.
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Woodbridge, Va. — Documents show Virginia Senate candidate Tito Munoz once belonged to Virginia’s disadvantaged and minority-owned business program.
In documents provided to PotomacLocal.com by Munoz’s opponent, Jeff Frederick, Munoz’s Dale City-based DeBorne Construction had been listed in Virginia’s online directory of disadvantaged businesses. A search of the database Wednesday revealed the company has been removed from the list.
North Stafford, Va. — A crane toppled at a construction site in North Stafford on Wednesday morning.
No one was injured, but the crane caused significant damage to a building under construction at the Quantico Corporate Center.
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By Marty van Duyne
For PotomacLocal.com
Falmouth, Va. — McGruff the Crime Dog joined Sheriff Charlie Jett and Deputy Darrell English for National Night Out at several active adult communities.