Margo Frazier will open her soap boutique this weekend.
She is the winner of 26 weeks free rent after she bested her challengers Spotsylvania Town Center's Shop Small Showdown contest. In February, she accepted her award and told us about she started making decorative soaps at home, and is now in need of a storefront to expand her business.
Today, Spotsylvnaia Towne Center tell us:
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Voters in Prince William County will have eight places to cast their votes early.
To handle the expected crush of voters, starting Monday, October 19, eight satellite voter offices located across the county will be open for residents to cast their "absentee in-person" votes for the Nov 3, 2020 election:
1. Haymarket Gainesville Community Library, 14870 Lightner Rd, Haymarket
2. Main Office of Elections, 9250 Lee Ave, Suite 1, Manassas
3. DMV Woodbridge Customer Service Center Elections Office, 2731 Caton Hill Rd, Woodbridge
4. Piney Branch Elementary School, 8301 Linton Hall Rd, Bristow
5. Charles J. Colgan, Sr. High School, 13833 Dumfries Rd, Manassas
6. Dr. A.J. Ferlazzo Building, 15941 Donald Curtis Dr, Woodbridge
7. James J. McCoart Administrative Building, 1 County Complex Ct, Woodbridge
8. Dumfries Community Center, 17755 Main Street, Dumfries
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At the end of this month, the Prince William County Board of Library Trustees will be no more.
The Board of County Supervisors voted to replace the trustees with a new, all-volunteer advisory board, which will report to the supervisors on library matters, participate in the hiring of a new library director if the position is vacant, as well as make policies governing the library.
Prince William County Supervisors will have the opportunity to appoint members to the new board by September 1. Keith Mueller, who served on the old trustee board, will remain on the new advisory board and will represent Manassas.
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Freedom Bank, based in Fairfax County, will open a new branch in the Balls Ford Road corridor in Prince William County, near Gainesville.
From a press release:
The new location will be located in Manassas at 10611 Balls Ford Road, Suite 110, Manassas, VA 20109, conveniently located near I-66 and the business corridor of 234.
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Manassas will put on fireworks on show on Labor Day weekend.
The show come as the city joined other surrounding jurisdictions by canceling or postponing their annual July 4 fireworks shows.
More from a city spokeswoman:
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A homeless shelter could replace Grace Church in Dumfries.
The Town Council will hold a public hearing at its September 15 meeting to decide whether or not to issue a zoning text amendment to allow the shelter to open inside the church at 1006 Williamstown Drive.
If approved, the shelter could open as early as Dec. 1 and would house single men and women that have been living at the Ferlazzo Government Building in Woodbridge, and at an Econo Lodge motel at the corner of Route 234 and Van Buren Road, just outside Dumfries.
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6:20 p.m.
The man that prompted the barricade is in police custody.
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Trains are running once again following the pedestrian strike.
Update: Railroad has opened back up, trains will be on the move shortly at restricted speeds.
Note: Updates are not typically available for delays under 10 minutes as time is often made up en route.
Questions? Contact [email protected] or call 703.684.100 https://t.co/hWPpqOqjpj
— VRE (@VaRailXpress) August 26, 2020
3:15 p.m.
Fairfax County police tell us the person struck by the train is in critical condition.
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VRE tells us they’re working on getting OmniRide buses to the scene of the stalled train. The buses will take passengers to their destinations.
Update: Manassas Line train 325 will continue to hold at Burke Station due to a pedestrian strike. We are getting buses to Burke Station and will transport passengers to their stations, at this time, we are estimating 45-60 minutes until the buses arrive.
https://t.co/EsfNaDrrn6— VRE (@VaRailXpress) August 26, 2020
2:27 p.m.Â
We’re just getting word that someone has been struck by a Virginia Railway Express train on the Manassas line near Burke.
Manassas Line train 325 has stopped at Burke Station due to a pedestrian struck by train.
Note: Updates are not typically available for delays under 10 minutes as time is often made up en route.
Questions? Contact [email protected] or call 703.684.1001. A https://t.co/33sYrLRQJY
— VRE (@VaRailXpress) August 26, 2020
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More people are being arrested in Prince William County, but, the overall crime rate is down.
A total of 12,644 people were placed in handcuffs in the county in 2019, according to the police department’s just-released annual report. That’s 99 more people than a year ago.
At 881 logged arrests, 66 more people were charged with theft than a year ago. And when it comes to teens, 1,857 were arrested last year — 123 more than the year before.
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A Minnieland daycare center was evacuated this afternoon.
Stafford County fire crews were called to 19 Soaring Eagle Drive at 1:34 p.m. after someone reported smelling a strange odor in the building.
A total of 43 people were evacuated from the building while fire crews conducted an investigation. A faulty air conditioning unit was found to be the culprit, states county fire and rescue spokeswoman Kathleen Caler.
