The Quicken Loans National Tournament kicks off today at Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Gainesville.
More than 100 PGA players, including Tiger Woods, were invited to come participate in the event.
Author: Potomac Local News
Twenty seven years after being killed in the line of duty, Sergeant John D. Conner, III, was remembered in a ceremony last week.
On July 24, 1988, Conner was shot three times and later died after responding to a report of a man shooting bullets into the air, according to his Officer Down Memorial page. The suspect, Roy Bruce Smith, was shot in the foot and survived, but was later sentenced to death and was executed nine-years later.
Prince William police are still looking for a Woodbridge man, following an attack on a juvenile male.
According to Prince William police on May 24, officers responded to a home on Satterfield Drive in Woodbridge to investigate a domestic assault call.
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Sentara Healthcare merged with Pratt Medical Center of Fredericksburg. Sentara is a major medical provider in Hampton Roads, and owns the Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge — formerly Potomac Hospital.
Pratt Medical serves 66,000 patients in Fredericksburg, Stafford, King George, and Dahlgren.
The new company will operate under the name Sentara Pratt Medical Center.
Well, the campaign season for the General Assembly Election in November is upon us. This will be increasingly evident as we endure a parade of negative attacks and falsehoods that will emerge in the weeks and months ahead. I wish it wasn’t so. People—voters—deserve the truth, not false and misleading rhetoric. That is why I am personally responding to the article penned by Jane Touchet, chairman of the Democratic Women of Lake Ridge, attacking me in support of my challenger, Sara Townsend.
Ms. Touchet, a partisan Democrat who doesn’t reside in the district that I serve, says “Mr. Lingamfelter has proven again and again that he is no friend of public education”. Really? Let’s review the facts.
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Almost every elected official and candidate on the ballot this November will acknowledge crowding as a significant issue in Prince William County Schools.
While the School Board and Board of County Supervisors have made limited headway on this issue in recent years, it seems we continue to work around the edges of this problem. Until we have a plan with budget implications, we cannot have an open and honest debate about class size reduction.
Good morning – Summer vacation tends to tax our area food pantries so as you shop for your groceries this week please pick up a few extra things for families in need as both the SERVE Pantry and the Salvation Army Pantry have an urgent need for basics including canned beans, canned vegetables, canned meat, cereals, pasta and other dry goods. In Manassas please drop off food donations to the SERVE Pantry at 10056 Dean Drive or in Woodbridge at the Salvation Army Pantry at 1483 Old Bridge Road, Suite 102. Please help these wonderful organizations continue to support families in need.
· The SPARK Education Foundation is collecting school supplies for needy kids at the Kelly Leadership Center at 14715 Bristow Road during the week from 8am-4pm. Items needed include backpacks, 3-ring binders, dividers, folders with pockets, spiral notebooks, loose leaf paper, colored pencils, ink pens, No 2 pencils, crayons, highlighters, glue sticks, index paper and other similar items appropriate for little people.
A Woodbridge woman was robbed and pepper sprayed on the evening of July 23.
According to Prince William police, officers responded to a call for the incident, which took place at Chinkapin Oak Lane in Woodbridge.
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The Occoquan Visitor Center, slated for closure on Aug. 2, will now be funded into February as a task force works to find innovative ways to keep it open indefinitely. [Read more]
Volunteer Prince William will host a special dinner Saturday night for their “Un-trim-a-tree” project.
Diners are asked to bring an unwrapped toy to Philadelphia Tavern in Manassas between 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, July 25 will receive a discount on their dinner bill. The toys will be donated to the “Un-trim-a-tree” campaign and will be given to a child in need at Christmastime.