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Dumfries returns Sept. 15 to a $319,000 question on town boundaries

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Dumfries Town Council chambers. A public YouTube campaign video titled “Brian Fields 4 Mayor of Dumfries” shows Councilman Brian K. Fields in the chamber; weeks later council put an ethics warning on the record without naming a member.

Dumfries Town Council returns Sept. 15 to a $319,000 question: whether to study a possible change to the town’s boundaries before it has named a parcel, drawn a proposed line or opened talks with Prince William County.

The study area is county land in ZIP 22026 that already sits outside town limits. Staff has not picked properties. Council has not authorized talks with the county or the Commission on Local Government. Town Manager Tangela Innis said the contract is decision-support so officials can learn whether a line change is even worth pursuing. It would not annex anyone.

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Quantico base comments for first time on water outage, cites suspected main break

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Pallet of Pure Life bottled water shrink-wrapped on a blue pallet in a Quantico neighborhood lot, with houses and trees in the background.
A pallet of bottled water sits on a lot in the Town of Quantico on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, after Prince William County Emergency Management delivered drinking water at the town’s request. Mayor Kevin Brown said the town is running at about 20 percent water pressure following a problem on Marine Corps Base Quantico’s system. Photo: Potomac Local News

Marine Corps Base Quantico has publicly addressed the water disruption for the first time, posting a notice that the Mainside distribution system experienced a suspected water-main break on the evening of Sept. 7 that nearly emptied the installations below-ground treated-water reservoir.

The base has not confirmed the cause. Officials also did not say how many people were without service or how long the disruption lasted.

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Police Blotter

Police Blotter: Brandishing Arrests, Burglaries Hit Dumfries and Woodbridge

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Photo: Scott Rodgerson / Unsplash

Prince William County police reported a brandishing arrest in Woodbridge, burglaries and an attempted burglary in Dumfries, and a juvenile charged with brandishing near Manassas. Stafford County deputies arrested two men on DUI charges and one on petit larceny and public intoxication.

On September 9, officers responded to a residence in the 17200 block of Larkin Ct in Dumfries for a burglary. Between September 7 at 9 p.m. and September 8 at 9 p.m., a basement window was shattered and entry made. Jewelry was reported missing. No suspect information was available.

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Chelsea Quintern and son Joshua return to Prince William Board for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

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Chelsea Quintern speaks at the Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Sept. 1 as the board marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Her son Joshua sits beside her. Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega, Quintern’s boss, stands at right.

Updated Sept. 10, 2026: Chelsea Quintern wrote Potomac Local on Thursday evening to correct two name spellings, note that her daughter Rylee was also at the meeting, and report that Joshua’s post-meeting scan showed no evidence of disease.

Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega’s chief of staff, Chelsea Quintern, returned to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors dais on Sept. 1 with her son Joshua beside her as the Board marked Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Their daughter, Rylee, was also present. Quintern later said Rylee has not had cancer but “experienced a major change in her life because of childhood cancer, too.”

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Board marks Recovery, Preparedness, and other September awareness dates

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The Prince William Board of County Supervisors marked a slate of September awareness dates at its Sept. 1 meeting, highlighting recovery, preparedness, voting access, kinship care and forensic work ahead of events later this month.

Recovery Month centers on the third annual Recovery is Real gathering Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the AJ Ferlazzo Building. The free-lunch event carries the theme “Recovery is Real, Restoring Every Aspect of Life.” Community Services Behavioral Health Program Manager Tanya invited the public to attend.

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Bailey directs staff to study a local marijuana tax

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Potomac District Supervisor Andrea O. Bailey [Photo: Prince William County Government]

Potomac District Supervisor Andrea O. Bailey directed County Executive Christopher Shorter and staff to study whether Prince William County can establish a local marijuana tax, after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed 2026 legislation creating a legal adult-use marketplace in Virginia.

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Boddye tees up water resolutions on reuse and groundwater study

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Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny A. Boddye circulated two draft water resolutions at the Sept. 1 Board of County Supervisors meeting and asked colleagues to discuss them. The Board did not vote.

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Quantico

SEMPER DRY: Quantico boil order after base main break nearly empties tank — and the Marines aren’t talking

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Water pressure in the Town of Quantico was restored at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mayor Kevin Brown said in an email Tuesday night. The boil-water advisory is still in effect.

Brown said Inboden Environmental, the town’s contract environmental support, will collect the first of two samples Wednesday morning and the second Thursday morning. If both come back clean, the town hopes to lift the advisory by noon Friday.

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Police Blotter: Triple-Fatal Crash, Shootings Reported

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Prince William County police reported a death investigation at Potomac Festival in Woodbridge, several shots-fired calls, an abduction case with a wanted suspect, a malicious wounding arrest and an attempted robbery at a Salvation Army.

The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office reported five DUI arrests, a drug charge tied to one of those stops, an assault at a Wawa, a cigarette theft and other cases.

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PWCS posts 92.7% first-week bus on-time rate to open 2026-27 year

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A school bus. Photo: Potomac Local file

Prince William County Schools opened the 2026-27 year with a 92.7% first-week bus on-time arrival rate, Superintendent Dr. LaTanya D. McDade told the School Board on Wednesday — one of the first times in five or six years the division has hit that mark for the opening week, she said.

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