This year, several celebrations are planned as Brentsville Courthouse, a former Prince William County seat turns 200 years old.
“Brentsville Bicentennial Court Day,” a free event on Saturday, April 30 will kick off a year-long celebration, the largest bicentennial celebration honoring Brentsville.
Teacher union fight: The Prince William County School Board has once again moved the deadline for the county’s teacher’s union to present the signatures it collected in support of collective bargaining, this time saying the union has until May 4 to present its union cards for verification. [Insidenova.com]
Former Stafford County Admin gets a new job: After a tumultuous year, Wethersfield, Conn., on Monday night, chose Frederick Presley, the former Stafford County Administrator whose last day was April 22, 2022. [Hartford Currant]
According to a 9-1-1 caller, a goat is on the loose near Haymarket.
Police and animal control were called to Merchants View Square, a shopping center off Dominion Valley Drive anchored by a Giant Food store, at about 8 a.m. According to initial reports, a goat was walking along a retaining wall at the shopping center.
A family and their pets were displaced on Wednesday after a fire in Widewater.
At 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, Stafford County Fire and Rescue units were called to a house fire on Viking Lane in the Widewater area, in the northeastern section of Stafford County near Potomac Point Winery.
The musical Xanadu will take the stage at the Workhouse Arts Center.
The upcoming production, based on a book by Douglas Carter Beane, Music, and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, and based on the Universal Pictures film, with a screenplay by Richard Danus and Marc Rubel, will run May 7 through June 11, 2022 (Friday and Saturday nights are at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m.)
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Window smashed at Catholic church in Downtown Manassas
On April 25, 2022, at 8:30 p.m., police went to All Saints Catholic Church at 9300 Stonewall Road after a witness reported someone broke a window with a rock and entered the church.
Two teenagers in Prince William County died from apparent drug overdoses in 48 hours.
The first call was Sunday, April 24, shortly before 6 p.m., at a home in Woodbridge involving a 15-year-old boy. The second was shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 26 at home in Dale City involving a 14-year-old boy.
Full traffic stops and lane closures on I-95 northbound at the American Legion Road overpass, located at mile marker 138 in Stafford County near the county airport, are no longer needed.
