HAYMARKET — With the Haymarket Town Council’s 5-1 decision to rezone 9.94 acres from business commercial to “Residential Moderate Density” land use designation, schools in the Gainesville District will become increasingly more crowded.
“We don’t run the schools,” said Haymarket Vice Mayor Susan Edwards just before voting in support of a rezoning request that would allow 79 new townhomes to be built in Haymarket.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — The 13th high school to be built in Prince William County in an effort to ease overcrowding is predicted to be a success — sort of.
The new high school, to be built on Progress Court near Jiffy Lube Live, is scheduled to open in 2021. Accommodating more than 2,500 students and a price tag of $133.4 million, it is expected to ease the crowded conditions at Battlefield, Patriot and Stonewall high schools.
HAYMARKET — It was a night for fun, family, and friends.
It was a night for Bad Art at the Gainesville-Haymarket Branch of the Prince William Library.
With the Haymarket Town Council’s 5-1 decision to rezone 9.94 acres from business commercial to “Residential Moderate Density” land use designation, schools in the Gainesville District will become increasingly more crowded.
?“We don’t run the schools,” said Haymarket Vice Mayor Susan Edwards just before voting in support of a rezoning request that would allow 79 new townhomes to be built in The Crossroads Village Center Haymarket.?
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — It’s a story that might have come from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, of trees that observed momentous events of history. But instead of Ents, they are “Witness Trees.”
Though they can’t speak, they tell a story. What was originally a surveyor’s mark to designate property lines, Witness Trees have morphed into observers of important historical events.
QUANTICO — The U.S. flag will once again fly over the Iwo Jima Memorial at Quantico.
During the windstorm in March, the hands holding the pole were damaged to the point that the flag was no longer stable. The statue greets visitors at the main gate to the base, as well as those who use Route 1 to drive past the base..
DALE CITY — Father Willson I. “Bill” Korpi brings a new dimension to the priesthood at Holy Family Catholic Church in Dale City.
He is referred to as “father,” but he really is a dad.
