Author: Potomac Local News

Woodbridge, Va. — Today is the day for Prince William County residents to pay their personal property taxes.

A website has been created to include information about paying the taxes and a special hotline will be open until 6:30 p.m. if you have questions about your tax bill.

It’s been a decade since the Lorton prison was transformed into the Potomac Communities premiere arts centers, The Lorton Workhouse.

On Saturday, Oct. 22, a cocktail reception will be held at the center from 7 p.m. to midnight. Dinner will be served, music and dancing will take place along with both silent and live auctions, according to Workhouse spokeswoman Camela Speer.

Woodbridge, Va. — An area jeweler is offering to clean your jewelry for free.

Quinns Goldsmith in Occoquan and Woodbridge has offered to clean a piece of jewelry, as well as buff and polish one piece of jewelry for free. That’s a $30 value, a store spokeswoman said.

The Greater Prince William Community Health Center in Woodbridge, the Lake Ridge and Woodbridge rotaries will gather at Harbour View in Woodbridge from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Oct. 21 for a “Chips4Charity” event.

To see full details about the event or to see how you can participate, read their full press release.

Successful military campaigns depend on a foundation of good, reliable intelligence. This has been true ever since the advent of organized armies. While many of the means by which reliable intelligence is created have changed, the underlying need that commanders have for such information has remained basically constant throughout history.

Two hundred and thirty years ago a concerted intelligence effort was about to reap the ultimate military reward right here in Virginia. The Continental Army and its French allies were just beginning their siege of the British Army encamped at Yorktown. They had marched from Rhode Island and New York, across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. They traversed innumerable streams and rivers, the Potomac and Occoquan among them, on their way to their final rendezvous with Lord Cornwallis’ Red Coats.