By URIAH KISER
DALE CITY, Va. — As the call for gun buybacks gets louder, Prince William County’s leader said politicians should stop making a tragedy in Connecticut a political issue.
Author: Potomac Local News
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Scott R. Welch, age 53, passed away peacefully with his loved ones by his side on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
Scott was born on Sept. 5, 1959, to William Welch, Jr. and Doris (nee Manthe) Welch at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Having enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps’ delayed entry program two days after his 17th birthday, Scott decided to graduate early from Madison East High School in January 1977, and in February entered the active duty ranks of the Marine Corps.
NewsLinks: Sex Assault Outside Library Investigated, Inauguration Preps, City’s Effort to Ban Nudity
By JEFFERY KNIGHT
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Opponents of tolls on Interstate 95 have a new ally: African American legislators.
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OPINION
The Northern Virginia Telework Council announced its focus project for 2013: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.
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Potomac Local News celebrated a big year for our small hometown news operation last night.
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Chick-fil-A restaurants are offering a free breakfast to their customers this month.
More in a press release from the restaurant that specializes in the chicken sandwich:
Where to take your child for preschool is an important question for many parents in the area. With so many options, it can be hard to choose.
PWCmoms.com has compiled reviews of some of the best area preschools in the region.
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By URIAH KISER
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — In a show of bipartisanship, Virginia Senator George Baker, D-Fairfax, and Prince William, and Delegate Rich Anderson, R-Prince William, came together Saturday to outline their initiatives for the current legislative session in Richmond.
By JEFF IRWIN
Prince William Conservation Alliance
The rapid development and modernization of Prince William County can challenge even the most astute observer’s sense of history. Shopping plazas, crowded roads and sprawling housing developments dominate the landscape. Stories of ancient Indian settlement, colonization and frontier communities, slavery and war, early industry and intensive farming permeate our local history, but the past is sometimes hard to see for the present.