There was a first today at the Hylton Performing Arts Center: A massive naturalization ceremony for nearly 450 new U.S. citizens.
A line of people backed out the front door of the performing arts center at 8:30 a.m. today. What is normally an empty parking lot was full of cars.
Severe thunderstorm warnings are poping up across the region.
Check back to the this page and we’ll update the warnings issued today, June 28, 2016.
Barry Barnard will fill the role of Prince William County Police Chief full time.
He had been acting chief since the departure of Chief Stephan Hudson in April.
One of three police officers shot on February 27 in a doubly fatal domestic dispute incident returned to duty Monday.
Officer Jessie Hempen, 31, an eight-year veteran on the force, is back with his fellow officers.
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From PRTC:
In observance of the Independence Day holiday, there will be no PRTC bus service on Monday, July 4. Regular Saturday service will resume on Tuesday, July 5.
It’s going to cost more to stay at a hotel in the Town of Dumfries.
Town leaders this week amended a transient room rental tax provision in the town code that allows the town to collect a room fee on top of the hotel tax already levied and charged by hotels.
A new data center will open in Quantico Corporate Center in Stafford County.
From an email:
The Prince William Conservation Alliance on Wednesday will be talking about the Rural Crescent.
It’s an area of land from Gainesville to Quantico that the Prince William County Board of Supervisors in 1998 designated as an urban growth boundary to keep the county’ s growth in check, and mostly located in its more dense central and eastern sections.
