UPDATE
Prince William County Public Schools provided the following information about this afternoon’s bus crash:
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Author: Potomac Local News
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EXCLUSIVE
By URIAH KISER
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11:35 p.m.
Seven out of the eight affected NOVEC substations are back online. Customers in Stafford still affected.
FROM POLICE REPORTS
Found Human Remains – On December 9th at 1:28PM, police responded to the 17900 block of Joplin Rd in Triangle (22172) for a report of discovered human remains.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — The procession began at Town Hall and ended at the Dumfries Shopping Center where holiday revelers gathered for a block party.
The annual Dumfries Christmas Parade was held Saturday under the theme “Christmas Past, Present, and Future,” and hundreds of people lined U.S. 1 to see the marching bands, floats, classic cars, and Santa Claus himself.
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UPDATE
Harrell Road was reopened after repairs were reportedly made to a broken gate at a water crossing there.
By Dr. STEVEN L. WALTS
Prince William County Public Schools Superintendent
When the issue of School Division energy conservation came up at a recent Prince William County School Board meeting, the ensuing discussion caught some in the audience by surprise. To be honest, I was surprised too. After all, what could make more sense than cutting unnecessary energy spending to redirect money to student education?
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I just packed for my flight home from Okinawa, Japan. I’ll be flying through Tokyo and because I have to switch from a Domestic Airport (Hanada) to an International Airport (Nareta), I’ll be spending the night there. As I make sure I haven’t forgotten anything, I am also thinking about the list of “to do’s” when I get home. At the top of that list will be to make some donations to a few of the worthy not for profits in our community (and a couple National and International Organizations). I’ve been luckier than most in life and like to share my modest success in life those who because of chance or circumstance weren’t quite so lucky.
I spend a lot of time thinking about my charitable giving. It’s a very personal decision. My choices reflect my beliefs and personal philosophy. I favor small groups lead by mostly volunteers because I recognize they are driven by a passion to help others. I also look carefully at the percentage of revenue a group devotes to programs versus overhead. Yes, I look at the IRS 990’s, and draw upon my personal experiences.
It seems another restaurant chain has opted to truck in food that was once made in house.
One of my sinful pleasures, Chipotle, is no longer making their tangy honey vinaigrette salad dressing inside the restaurants – this according the manager who asked me to tell him if I liked the new dressing that is now shipped into the restaurant known for its football-sized burritos.
Nearly 70 years after he earned it, an 88-year-old World War II veteran finally received his Bronze Star for Heroism at a ceremony in Congressman Gerry Connolly’s district office in Fairfax County on Friday.
Washington native and current Prince William County resident John “Jack” Faulconer Jr. was an 18-year-old infantryman assigned to a machine gun squad in Patton’s 3rd Army when he landed on Omaha Beach a few weeks after D-Day in 1944. Subsequently, he was severely wounded in a battle that killed two of his squad members.