By KJ Mushung
Dumfries, Va. — The historic Weems-Botts Museum in Dumfries has volunteer opportunities for anyone who wants to help at the museum or with events.
Author: Potomac Local News
If you had lived in the center of the City of Berlin fifty years ago this month you would have been awakened by the sound of construction equipment and workmen building a wall.
But this would not be an ordinary wall built to protect someone’s garden from rabbits or deer. This wall was built to keep people in and it would become one of the most visible manifestations of tyrannical cruelty ever erected in the modern world.
The Boys and Girls Club in Dumfries this fall will hold a before and after school childcare program for ages 6 to 14-years-old. An annual membership to the club is $30, and with more participants the club plans to add new programs.
“As enrollment grows they plan to offer additional programming including a general after school program, open gym nights for ‘tweens’ and various mentoring programs with community partners,” said Greater Prince William Girls and Boys Clubs spokeswoman April Chervenka.
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North Stafford, Va. — The owner of a nursery has volunteered to carry on the democratic banner in Stafford.
Fred C. Sweat threw his name into the ring as the Democrat hoping to replace fellow party member and retiring Stafford Supervisor Bob Woodson in the Griffis-Widewater District. It marks the first time will have run for political office.
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Woodbridge, Va. — For the past 22 years, Bulah Smith has lived on Horner Road near Prince William Parkway and Interstate 95.
She says her neighborhood street is rife with debris, drug paraphernalia and crime.
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When remembering Jenny Vaughn-Bates was killed by her estranged husband last September, her friend, Tracy Lane, has to shut down her emotions.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the park site off Brooke Road near the Stafford County Landfill about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday when they got a call about a Jeep that had become stuck in mud. The caller — driver of the Jeep — told deputies that he had been left there by his friend.
“The Jeep was so muddy they couldn’t even see the license plates, even when the deputies tried to clear if off with their hands,” said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Kennedy.
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Maybe I’m Confused.
Annual Yearly Progress results are out for 2011-2012. You can see my story on Stafford County’s results here which explains that Annual Yearly Progress, or AYP, is the standards schools need to meet in order to be certified under No Child Left Behind.
Virginia State Police will escort an estimated 1,800 riders who are all a part of this year’s America’s 9/11 Foundation, Inc. memorial ride, which is expected to enter the state from Maryland about 2 p.m. at Leesburg. The precession is expected to take between an hour and hour and a half, and will travel U.S. 15 to Dulles Greenway east to Dulles Toll Road east.
The motorcyclists will travel in the far left lane and be cordoned off by orange cones, while drivers will travel in the right lane, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Deborah Cox.
Health officials closed Aquia Landing Beach on July 29 after harmful blue-green algae was found in at the confluence of Aquia Creek and Potomac River. The toxic algae that contain microcystins are harmful to humans and can be deadly to pets if ingested, health officials said.
There have been no reported cases of anyone becoming sick after coming in contact with the water.