The band played on last night in Triangle as the National Marine Corps Museum kicked off what it hopes will become an summertime tradition.
Members of the National Marine Corps Band played for area residents who pitched lawn chairs in Semper Fidelis Memorial Park, outside the museum. The two-hour free concert began at 7 p.m., and in addition to the music it was a chance for those who attended to have a picnic on the lawn where sandwiches, drinks and ice cream were sold.
Parking restrictions in Stafford may get tighter.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors this week unanimously voted to allow the leaders of homeowners associations in the county to petition the board as to which types of boats, commercial and recreational vehicles that are allowed to be park on their streets.
A man who drowned last night at a Woodbridge marina was trying to tie his sailboat to the dock.
Police said the unidentified 52-year-old man fell from the marina into the Occoquan River at 9:18 p.m., at the Belmont Bay marina at 530 Harbor Side Street.
Jeff Frederickson watched a boat sink into the Occoquan River on Wednesday morning.
“It was about 11 a.m. when we noticed its port side sinking into the water, and then the bottom of the boat lift up against the dock,” said Frederickson, the dock master at Fairfax Yacht Club.
Taxpayers could get a bill for the cost to build High Occupancy Toll lanes on Interstates 95 and 395.
Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean T. Connaughton said his office is reviewing plans which explore the financial viability of converting HOV lanes between Dumfries and the Pentagon to toll lanes, and then extending then south to Stafford and Spotsylvania counties.
A man on his way to work Tuesday was injured after a gun blast shattered his car window.
The 37-year-old victim was driving his car through the Stafford Marketplace shopping center about 4:30 a.m., trying to avoid traffic on Va. 610, when he heard a loud blast in the area of T.J. Maxx and Lowes, said Stafford Sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
There was no shortage of sweet corn, fruits, vegetables, popcorn or even dueling banjos at Sunday’s Dale City Farmer’s Market.
The popular open air market drew farmers from Central Virginia, Stafford and other points that all came to sell produce, flowers, seasonings and other goods they had produced.
School officials in a new report say there was a delay in communicaiton following a shooting at a Woodbridge community college campus in December.
After shots were fired at Northern Virginia Community College off Neabsco Mills Road on Dec. 8, it took up to 40 minutes to send voice and text messages to students, faculty and staff informing them of the shooting, and telling them to shelter in place, according to The Fortnightly.
