WOODBRIDGE, Va. — While many high school students are enjoying their summer vacations, Jessie Burney is studying film, and working on the fielding, and hitting techniques that will give her an edge her final year on the Girl’s Varsity Softball team at Gar-Field Senior High School.
Before her school year gets underway in September, Burney, 17, is already contemplating next steps after she graduates high school and beyond her collegiate career.
MANASSAS, Va. — In Manassas, it’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas.
On July 25, several came to the city’s Old Town for “Christmas in July” to benefit the Untrim-A-Tree program, which, each year, pairs toys with needy children in Prince William County and the Greater Manassas area.
NOKESVILLE, Va. — On Aden Road in Prince William County’s Nokesville area, construction crews will be back at it in an effort to replace a bridge along the two-lane road.
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This past weekend, the Manassas BATtle 7-year old baseball team won the Varina Youth Sports Invitational Tournament.
Their championship was two weeks in the making, as Manassas traveled to the Richmond area two weeks prior only to have the tournament completely rained out.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — It’s a small store and deli with a lot to offer.
The “By the River Convenience Store and Cafe” is one of the few stops found along rural Brooke Road in Stafford County. It takes it’s name after its location, by the Potomac River and the Aquia Landing county park.
On the 19th of July, 2013, Roy Whetzel passed away peacefully at Kindred Hospital in Richmond, VA. Born November 8th, 1938 in Prince William County, VA, he was the son of the late Samuel G. Whetzel, Jr. and Louise Foster Whetzel.
Beloved husband to Margaret of which they shared 30 wonderful years together; loving father of Roy Jr. (Natalie); Joy; Frankie (Theresa); Charlie (Kelli) and Anthony (Brandy); cherished grandfather of 15; great-grandfather of 4; and dear brother of Judy (Stony) Moore and Jeanie Whetzel. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend to all.
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Joan Ann (Adams) Budgeon, 84, formerly of Exeter Township, died in Westminster at Lakeridge Health Center in Lake Ridge, Va., where she called home for the past two years.
She was the wife of Eugene Lee Budgeon who died June 18, 2009.
Update 8 p.m.
Three of the four men injured riding on a firetruck when it flipped onto its side while on the way to a fire scene are released from the hospital, according to Stafford fire and rescue.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Police in Prince William County say they found a woman who went missing has been found.
Residents, in the Southbridge neighborhood off U.S. 1 near Dumfries, reported seeing a larger than usual police presence in their neighborhood today, as well as a helicopter flying overhead.
