MANASSAS, Va. — Manassas will celebrate the second coming of the Civil War this weekend with several events to mark the 150th anniversary of the Second Battle of Manassas.
The three-day event kicks Friday off this weekend in Old Town Manassas with re-enactors, living history demonstrations, a parade, and a Blue and Gray Ball.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — Four youth interns who worked with Dumfries officials in the public works, police, zoning, economic development, and other departments of the town government, capped their summer at a special luncheon on Friday.
DALE CITY, Va. — A brown Buick with blue lights on the dashboard – that’s the car of a possible police impersonator who stopped a woman in Dale City.
The man driving the car pulled over a 48-year-old woman in the area of Dale Boulevard and Ridgefield Road between noon and 1 p.m. Wednesday.
STAFFORD, Va. — The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is proud to announce that it has received a first place traffic safety award from the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office entered the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Challenge. This challenge awards law enforcement agencies for excellence in overall traffic safety enforcement, community education and low traffic fatality and accident rates.
By MIKE DiCICCO
Quantico Sentry
QUANTICO, Va. — A survey of Quantico commuters found that 82 percent of them drive to and from work alone. That is the number the base’s updated transportation management plan, to be released in September, will try to bring down in an attempt to reduce congestion on and around the base.
NOKESVILLE, Va. — The Americans in Wartime Museum held an open house at its “tank farm” in Nokesville this weekend.
DUMFRIES, Va. — The good news: readers will have new carpet to walk on. The bad: the Dumfries Library must close for carpet installation August 30 and 31.
The library will reopen Tuesday Sept. 4 at 10 a.m., said according to a press release from the library.
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — There’s just something about the Canterbury Woods swimming pool that attracts mischief.
Parks and recreation employees erected a variable message board sign at the Lake Ridge swimming pool on Friday with the words “pool is open.” The sign was posted after the pool was closed for much of this past work week after vandals dumped bags of kitty litter and benches into the pool. it reopened late Friday afternoon.
