In this week’s Across Town, a look at business happenings around the area: A local hospital gets a new leader and it’s your free chance to find out more about the BRAC relocation.
Hospital’s new president
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Author: Potomac Local News
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The Army is interested in purchasing surplus rail equipment from Virginia Railway Express.
According to a Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation spokesman, the Army plans to transport soldiers from Ft. AP Hill in Bowling Green to Ft. Lee in Petersburg twice a week for 37 weeks each year, and they want to do it by rail.
AQUIA LANDING, Va. – The crews of the S.S. Songer and the Cardboard Speed Boat battled it out in contest of speed, rowing strength and cardboard boating know how.
At the start of the race Saturday, the pilots of the two homemade cardboard boats, along with a fleet of others, jumped into their crafts and started paddling with their oars.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – North Stafford’s main road is getting wider.
Since April, crews have been working to widen Va. 610 at Joshua Road at a projected cost of $9.1 million.
DUMFRIES, Va. – A bicyclist was shot in the leg early Saturday in Dumfries.
Police said the male victim was riding in the area of Port O Dumfries on Graham Park Road when three men approached him and threatened to drag him into the woods, said Prince William police spokesman Mark Merriman.
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A head-on crash has forced the closure of U.S. 1 in Triangle.
Just before 4:30 p.m., a Ford F-150 collided with a sports car just south of the Marine Corps Museum. Fire and rescue units were called, but it appears no one was seriously hurt.
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Trying to skirt a traffic back-up on Interstate 95 didn’t pay for a Fairfax woman.
When the 28-year-old female driver of a tan sedan tried to bail out of heavy traffic on the southbound lanes in Woodbridge she hit a ditch and got stuck after sometime after 2 p.m. Friday.
Gloria Jean Parker-May felt thought Friday morning’s earthquake was something else.
“Right about 5 a.m. I thought I was dreaming, and then wondering why such a big truck would be driving through the neighborhood,” said May about the feeling the quake. “So that explains why the bed was shaking.”
With the hot weather hanging around there are still plenty of cool things to do this weekend.
North Stafford Car Show
David Watson’s career as an electrical engineer in the Navy may have not prepared him for building cardboard boats, but he likes doing it.
Watson’s labor of love is for Rock Hill Ruitan Club’s Cardboard Boat Regatta, scheduled tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Aquia Landing Park in Stafford County. (more…)