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Manassas National Battlefield Park is preparing for a prescribed fire. We plan to manage the fire on Tuesday, March 9. This date may change depending upon weather conditions. The planned fire will be on about 75 acres near the Deep Cut (west of Featherbed Lane and south of General Trimbles Lane).

This will be the park’s fourth prescribed fire, and it follows successful burns in April 2018 and March and November 2019. The goals of this burn are to restore historic battlefield viewsheds, maintain wildlife habitat, and control woody and invasive species.


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Route 628 (Winding Creek Road) in Stafford County will be closed between Route 733 (Embrey Mill Road) and Route 1947 (Walpole Street) beginning Monday, March 15.

The road will remain closed for an estimated six months. Road construction will be performed under permit as part of a private development project.


Obituaries

Eugene was born in Exeter, California to Elmer Norris Jobe and Gertrude Eugenia Jobe on August 12, 1931. He married Angelina Marcello Jobe on November 10, 1951 in Barrington, RI. He was a decorated Veteran of the U.S. Navy serving 28 years. He began his career as a Seabee in MCB1 then as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer. His tours of duty included: Korea, Japan, wintering over in the Antarctic as a part of Operation Deep Freeze 2, Da Nang, Vietnam and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico before retiring from the Navy in Middletown, Rhode Island where he and Angie spent 30 years. Post Navy retirement he managed construction of Bend Boat Basin in Portsmouth, RI and held various civil engineering contractor positions with the Navy Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI. He loved radio controlled airplanes, cars, boats, and his family. He and Angie moved to Virginia to be close to their children and grandchildren in 2001.

Eugene is preceded in death by his wife Angelina and his brother Wendell Jobe.


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