Prince William County Fire & Rescue will host its 3rd Annual Expo and Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, from noon to 5 p.m. at Pfitzner Stadium in Woodbridge.
The free event marks Fire Prevention Week and includes apparatus displays, food trucks, live music, and family activities.
House of Mercy, Prince William County’s largest food pantry, launched a $350,000 “Room for Mercy” campaign Tuesday to lease 4,500 square feet of adjacent space in Manassas after warehouse storage shrank this summer. The Manassas nonprofit says the 30-day drive ends Oct. 31 and would restore thrift-store floor space now used for overflow, protect Christmas with Mercy gifts for more than 1,300 children, and let the pantry become a client-choice market.
House of Mercy Launches Urgent $350,000 Campaign to Solve Storage Crisis and Launch Full-Choice Pantry
America Nepal Helping Society, a Manassas nonprofit founded in 2008, says it raised and delivered $92,964 from 167 donors for flood and landslide relief in Nepal’s Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi region. A Virginia delegation presented the check to Nepal’s government in New York during a meeting with Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal at a program hosted by the Consulate General of Nepal, the group said in a press release forwarded Sunday by Sen. Danica Roem.
America Nepal Helping Society in Virginia Raises $92,964 for Nepal Flood and Landslide Relief
Prince William planners say two Dumfries-area data-center filings next to Four Seasons still have “substantial issues,” a man once sentenced to death in a 2001 Bristow killing walked out of jail Monday after 25 years, Amazon settled with King George on the Birchwood campus, and Manassas Council will hear interim-mayor applicants Oct. 5.
According to InsideNoVa, Prince William planning staff told two developers that separate applications for a total of six data centers beside the Four Seasons at Historic Virginia 55-and-over community off Interstate 95 have “substantial issues and deficiencies” and cannot be supported in their current form. William Cooley of Atlantic Funding LLC filed a solo application May 22 for a 60-acre site at 16251 Dumfries Road; Barrie Peterson of Southgate Business LLC filed June 3 on a neighboring 79-acre parcel.
Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said a suspect in a Sept. 21 robbery at a Chatham Heights Road massage spa was arrested after investigators determined the suspect had stolen money from the business on multiple occasions. The report also includes Michael C. Davis’s 178-year sentence, a Virginia State Police account of a triple-fatal crash on the Interstate 395 exit ramp at Shirlington Road, and Stafford’s Sept. 29 daily incident report, which listed three fraud complaints and a public-intoxication arrest.
The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney said Michael C. Davis, 38, was sentenced Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, by Judge Kimberly A. Irving to 258 years with 80 years suspended, leaving 178 years to serve.
A first statewide hunger survey finds 40 percent of families in the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank service area food insecure, Fredericksburg planners delayed housing-code changes to revisit parking minimums for stacked townhomes, and Stafford supervisors meet with the Economic Development Authority tonight.
According to the Fredericksburg Free Press, the first Virginia-specific food-insecurity survey found that 40 percent of families in the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank service area lacked consistent access to enough food this year. The rate was 44 percent among families with children in the region and 52 percent among households of color. Statewide, 42 percent of all households and 51 percent of households with children were food insecure.
The 43rd Manassas Fall Jubilee fills Historic Downtown Manassas on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The city flagged the date on Facebook late Friday, calling it a weekend of fall fun and pointing residents to Oct. 3. The festival is the first-Saturday-in-October event Historic Manassas Inc. runs on Center Street and the side streets around the train depot.
Game Over Escape Rooms is open at 8955 Center Street in Historic Downtown Manassas.
Eleftherios “Ares” Nakos and Jonathan Thompson spent nearly three years planning the shop, the city’s economic development newsletter reported Thursday. They said the idea started with a shared love of escape rooms. Their research included a trip to Florida, where they played 12 Game Over rooms in two days before signing on with the franchise.
