Update
The driver of the Chevrolet Lumina, Cecilia Eck, 89, of Manassas, died at the scene.
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Author: Potomac Local News
It’s part of a national First Day Hikes effort at state parks around the country to offer hikes on New Year’s Day. Leesylvania’s State Park has invited hikers to come to the Lee’s Woods Trail at the park nestled along the Potomac River in Woodbridge. The two-mile hike is described as moderate, and Chief Ranger Sarah Percival encourages hikers to bring water and to wear hiking boots and warm clothes.
Just across the Occoquan Bay in Fairfax County lies Mason Neck State Park, where they will be hiking their one-mile Bay View Trail Head between 10:30 a.m. and noon. The hike is described as easy and appropriate dress and water bottles are also encouraged.
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Update:
Butler Road will not close on Thursday. Officials announced late Wednesday afternoon delivery of the bridges for the Ferry Farm – Belmont Trail will take place between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Thursday, not later in the day as was originally scheduled.
Stafford, VA – Butler Road will be closed for a short time period on Thursday, December 29, as two large bridges are delivered to the construction site of Phase 3 of the Belmont-Ferry Farm Trail at St. Clair Brooks Park. The delivery is scheduled for Thursday between 9 a.m. and noon. Butler Road will be closed for a short time period within that time frame.
More than 40 cases of mailboxes being smashed and knocked off their posts, as well as side mirrors mission from vehicles were reported in connection to the spree, in the Park Ridge, Austin Ridge, Augustine, and Amy Clay neighborhoods, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The vandalism happened between 12:15 and 12:45 a.m. Christmas Eve, when police received phone calls from neighbors stating their mailboxes had been damaged and a silver sedan had been seen fleeing the area. Another caller also reported seeing a baseball bat used to knock over the mailboxes, said Kennedy.
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Triangle, Va. – A fire ripped through a Triangle home Tuesday night displacing two people.
Fire crews from the Dumfries-Triangle Volunteer Fire Department and Quantico Marine Corps Base at 10:45 p.m. were called to a home in the 18000 block of Chestnut Drive. Flames were seen shooting from the roof of the home as crews arrived, said fire officials.
Prince William and Dumfries police spotted a car belonging to a suspect in the burglary in the area of U.S. 1 and Old Triangle Road in Triangle about 1:40 p.m. Police stopped the car but the passenger fled on foot, according to police.
The driver was arrested, and then police searched for the suspect but were unable to find him. That’s when K-9 units were called in to track the suspect, whom they later found in a wooded area near a ravine off U.S. 1 north, which runs parallel to Old Triangle Road.
Christmas 1776. The Revolution was not going well. The previous months had brought news that New York, Rhode Island and most of New Jersey had fallen to the British. Operational and intelligence blunders committed by Washington and his generals during these campaigns could have resulted in his dismissal as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Washington knew he needed to make a bold move in order to galvanize the Continental Army and rally the American people to his cause.
But before he could make that decisive move, Washington had to overcome a series of problems. Among these was the dwindling strength of the Continental Army. Many soldiers only enlisted for months at a time. Their enlistments were often up just as key campaigns were about to get underway. More importantly, though, poor sanitary conditions and lack of medical care resulted in extraordinarily high deaths from diseases like dysentery and malaria.
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Update 3 p.m.
There were no injuries in a crash on I-95 north this afternoon.
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Lake Ridge, VA – The Woodbridge Rotary Club hosted their Annual Christmas Dinner for the children of the Prince William County / Manassas Boys & Girls Clubs.
The event was hosted at the Westminster at Lake Ridge retirement community. Over 100 youth between the ages of 5 and 14 were in attendance. The youth were from the Manassas, Hylton (Dale City), and General Heiser (Dumfries) Boys & Girls Club branches.