Author: Potomac Local News
The Service Authority, which provides drinking water to Prince William County and Manassas, has begun flushing their pipes.
Simultaneously, the water service temporarily changes the primary disinfectant in their water treatment process from chloramines to free chlorine. The temporary change facilitates an effective flushing program for the distribution system and is a best practice for the drinking water industry.
Central Library is going green.
Prince William County has opened the first of its kind outdoor library space, Central Green. Utilizing the space surrounding Central Library, the library now offers a designated area for outdoor programming focusing on hands-on environmental education.
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After unleashing a profanity-laden tirade threatening elementary-aged children on a school bus, a Stafford man faces a disorderly conduct charge.
On the afternoon of Friday, April 1, authorities said a 34-year-old man got onto a school bus on Tanglewood Lane in the Shadow Woods neighborhood in North Stafford.
Road work will close a negihborhood street near Haymarket.
Robin Drive (Route 2005) between the southern Bluebird Lane intersection and the northern Bluebird Lane intersection will be closed to through traffic, weather permitting, from 9 a.m. Monday, April 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 7 to replace a culvert pipe, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Friday – Saturday, 10 p.m. – 7 a.m. Single lane closure at the same location at mile markers 139-138.
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Mary Jo Detweiler (née Holmes), librarian, Christian educator, and beloved and adoring mother and grandmother, died peacefully of natural causes on February 25, 2022.
Born in Indianapolis to Burnham Holmes and Josephine Seymour Holmes, she attended the University of Michigan (B.A., Phi Beta Kappa) and Indiana University (M.A., library science).
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The bridge carrying American Legion Road over Interstate 95 will close Monday, April 4, for the construction of a new overpass as part of the E-ZPass Express Lanes.
A detour will be in place for nine months while work is underway. American Legion Road is anticipated to reopen in January 2023.
Police identified a suspect in a home invasion near Quantico last fall.
Burglary While Armed *SUSPECT IDENTIFIED – On March 30, 2022, detectives with the Violent Crimes Bureau identified the suspect sought in connection to the home invasion that was reported to have occurred at the Quantico Court Apartments located in the 19000 block of Fuller Heights Rd. in Triangle (22172) on the early morning of November 10, 2021. On March 31, 2022, following the investigation, detectives obtained arrest warrants for the suspect, identified as Joshua Jehri MCMILLIAN-BUTLER. Attempts to locate the accused have been unsuccessful.